As we saw yesterday, hastily but hopefully promoted Luis Rojas officially took over as the team’s 23rd manager. I’m going to “count” Carlos Beltran’s 84-day run–they just happened all to be off-days.

Rojas slipped on the No. 19 jersey–not because his older brother Moises wore 18 and his father Felipe Alou famously wore 17 as a manager–but because of his birthday September 1– 1/9 as they would say in in most places.

Rojas would be first first Mets manager to wear 19, and the first issue of the number since late last year when Sam Haggarty (Sam Who-herty?) appeared, mostly as a pinch runner. Haggerty–who was one of the guys they got from Cleveland in the Kevin Plawecki deal–was dropped from the 40-man roster a few weeks back when Dellin Betances came aboard, and subsequently scooped up by Seattle.

Here’s a newly updated list of Mets Managers By the Number:

Manager	Years	Number
Casey Stengel	1962-65	37
Wes Westrum	1965-67	9
Salty Parker	1967	54
Gil Hodges	1968-71	14
Yogi Berra	1972-75	8
Roy McMillan	1975	51
Joe Frazier	1976-77	55
Joe Torre	1977-81	9
George Bamberger	1982-83	31
Frank Howard	1983	55
Davey Johnson	1984-1990	5
Bud Harrelson	1990-91	3
Mike Cubbage	1991	4
Jeff Torborg	1992-93	10
Dallas Green	1993-96	46
Bobby Valentine	1996-2002	2
Art Howe	2003-2004	18
Willie Randolph	2005-2008	12
Jerry Manuel	2008-2010	53
Terry Collins	2011-2017	10
Mickey Callaway	2018-2019	36/26*
Carlos Beltran	2020**	15
Luis Rojas	2020	19

*-Switched to 26 upon announcement of Jerry Koosman retirement, 9/24/19

**-Did not appear in a game.

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