Mr. Stats’ Notes: In Mets vs. Marlins, this Buck stops everywhere

On Sunday afternoon at 12 p.m., the visiting Mets will take on the Miami Marlins in a game that will be streamed live on Peacock. And that means Mets manager Buck Showalter will be in his visiting manager’s office even earlier than usual. How early is unclear, but highly likely he’ll be getting up in the morning before a large segment of South Beach partiers have ended their Saturday night.

This isn’t Buck’s first rodeo. He became a Major League manager 30 years ago, when George Steinbrenner hired him to manage the Yankees in 1992. At the age of 36, Showalter was only five years older than his first baseman Don Mattingly.

Oh yeah, on Sunday, Showalter will be managing against Mattingly, who played for Buck from 1992-95, the last four seasons of Donnie Baseball’s career. It seems that Showalter has managed a good segment of MLB’s active skippers.

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Phil Nevin is the Angels manager. In 2005, a trade deadline deal sent Nevin to Texas, where he played for Showalter until May of 2006. Nevin only batted .182 with Texas in 2005, and just .216 in 46 games before being traded to the Cubs for Jerry Hairston.

Like Mattingly, Nevin was at the end of his career when he played for Showalter.

Bob Melvin is the Padres manager. In 1994, at the very end of Melvin’s 10-year playing career, he played for Showalter (even if it was only for nine games and 14 plate appearances).

Torey Luvullo manages the Diamondbacks. In 1991, he played for the Yankees for 22 games and 59 plate appearances. And if he had scored a run that season, the third-base coach waving him in would have been — you guessed it — Buck Showalter.

Craig Counsell is the Brewers