Buck Showalter impressed with Deion Sanders’ coaching
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September 18, 2023
NEW YORK – What “Coach Prime” – Deion Sanders – is accomplishing at the University of Colorado is no surprise to Mets manager Buck Showalter.
Showalter has a special friendship with Sanders, who played for Showalter in 1989 when both played for Double-A Albany-Colonie, then an affiliate of the Yankees.
So after Saturday night’s 3-2 loss to the Reds at Citi Field, Showalter stayed up to watch the Colorado-Colorado State football game, which didn’t end until around 2:30 a.m. ET. Sanders led the Buffaloes to a 43-35 victory in overtime, increasing his team’s record to 3-0 to start the season.
“Tell Deion he can’t do something. He will show you [he can]said Showalter. “You know what people don’t understand is that he has really good coordinators. Good coordinators don’t go where it won’t be good.
“I watched his coordinators. They do little things like time management. They got into a really emotional game.” [Saturday] with Colorado State. I liked Deion’s calmness throughout the game. He didn’t panic. I am proud of him.”
Showalter remembered Sanders, the baseball player, calling him one of the best he played in the minor leagues. According to Showalter, Sanders’ foot speed was unmatched. Most importantly, Sanders had a special relationship with his teammates.
“If we had a choice in our team, he would have been chosen as captain. He is very smart, very calculating. People don’t understand it. He’s a good teammate,” Showalter said. “The players loved him because he humbled himself. He was different in baseball. He wasn’t exactly “prime time” in baseball. He was Deion. He knew I had some kinship with him. He listened.”
Showalter was the one who informed Sanders that he had been promoted to the major leagues with the Yankees. At first, Sanders thought he would be promoted to Triple-A Columbus and asked to stay at Albany-Colonie. But Showalter repeated the message again. Sanders dropped the phone and let his then-girlfriend hear the same news from the captain.
“We did a podcast last year and laughed about memories of baseball,” Showalter said. “He will tell you to this day that hitting a baseball is the hardest thing he has ever done. He was something. It was a lot of fun watching him play.”
Sanders didn’t have quite the success in baseball that he did in professional and college football, but he was a very good player with excellent speed and a bit of power. He was a standout outfielder and had a respectable .263/.319/.392 slash line with 39 home runs and 186 stolen bases for four major league teams – the Yankees, Braves, Giants and Reds – from 1989 to 2001.
On October 11, 1992, he played an afternoon NFL game for the Atlanta Falcons and played for the Atlanta Braves in the National League Championship Series on the same day.