Aside from Santana, who pitched the only no-hitter in Mets history, Carlos Beltran will join the Mets on Sunday. Former captain John Franco and Darryl Strawberry will also serve as guest instructors at some point this spring.
A few days before Johan Santana arrived at Mets camp, manager Carlos Mendoza learned that one of the team’s top starting pitchers, Sean Manaea, had grown up idolizing him. So Mendoza plotted with Santana,