Carlos Mendoza

Carlos Mendoza is the manager of the New York Mets, the Major League baseball team. Prior to being announced to this position on November 13, 2023, Mendoza spent 15 years in the New York Yankees organization, including the previous four as the team’s major league bench coach.

Mendoza, a native of Barquisimeto, Venezuela, is the second Venezuelan-born manager in Major League history. He served as the bench coach for Venezuela during the 2023 World Baseball Classic. Additionally, Mendoza managed the Cardenales de Lara of the Venezuelan Winter League in 2021 and 2022. He had previously been their bench coach for the 2017-2018 campaign.

Mendoza served two seasons (2018-2019) as the Yankees’ major league quality control coach and infield coach before he was promoted to bench coach. He was the Yankees’ lower level field coordinator in 2017 and infield coordinator from 2013-17. He managed Charleston, the Yankees’ Single-A affiliate in the South Atlantic League in 2012. He managed the Gulf Coast League Yankees to the 2011 championship. Mendoza coached with short-season Single-A Staten Island in the New York-Penn League in 2009 and with Charleston in 2010.

Mendoza served as the Scottsdale Scorpions manager in the Arizona Fall League in 2012 and 2016. Mendoza was the bench coach for the Gigantes de Carolina in the Puerto Rican Winter League during the 2014-15 campaign.

Mendoza played 10 minor league seasons (1997-2009) as an infielder in the San Francisco Giants and Yankees organizations as well as a three-years for the independent Pensacola Pelicans (2004-2006). He was originally signed by the Giants as a non-drafted free agent in 1996.