Reid Returns! Brignac Back for Fourth Season as Manager of the Ponies BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – The Binghamton Rumble Ponies, Double-A Affiliate of the New York Mets, are pleased to announce their 2025 coaching staff. Reid Brignac returns for a fourth season at the helm in the Southern Tier. He is joined by Pitching Coach Dan McKinney, Hit- ting Coach Nate Irving, Bench Coach Mariano Duncan, and Assistant Hitting Coach Aaron Bray.
Brignac (pronounced Brin-yac) - begins his fourth year as manager of the Rumble Ponies and sixth year in the Mets organization. Brignac is now the second-longest tenured manager in Binghamton history behind Pedro Lopez (2012- 16). In 2024, Brignac led a Rumble Ponies squad that at one point won 10-consecutive games, marking the franchise’s longest regular season winning streak since 2006. Brignac also oversaw Mets Minor League Pitcher of the Year Bran- don Sproat’s dominant stint at Double-A. After the conclu- sion of the Ponies’ season, Brignac assisted the Mets major league staff for a few games at the end of their regular season.
Reid Brignac returns for a fourth season as manager. He is the sec- ond-longest tenured manager in franchise history.
In 2023, Brignac led the Ponies to the postseason for the first time since 2017. Brignac’s club went on a second-half surge, going 39-27 overall and 17-5 over their last 22 games. They swept the Somerset Patriots in the Eastern League Division Series to lead the Ponies to the ELCS for the first time since 2014 before falling to Erie. In 2022, he led a team that saw five players make their major league debut with the Mets after starting the season with the Rumble Ponies, tying a Binghamton franchise record ( Francisco Álvarez, Brett Baty, José Butto, Nate Fisher, and Bryce Montes de Oca ). Brignac also was the Mets’ representative on the Arizona Fall League coaching staff after that sea- son, serving as the manager of the Peoria Javelinas. Brignac enjoyed a long and success- ful playing career, spending parts of nine years in the major leagues with the Tampa Bay Rays, Colorado Rockies, Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees, and Miami Marlins. He was initially drafted by the Rays in the second round of the 2004 MLB Draft. Duncan begins his fourth year as bench coach with the Rum- ble Ponies and seventh year in the Mets organization. He was an instrumental part of the Rumble Ponies 2023 run to the Eastern League Championship Series. He previously served as the bench coach for the Brooklyn Cyclones (High-A) in 2021 and in the same role with Kingsport in 2019. The former infielder played 12 major league seasons with the Los Ange - les Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees, and Toronto Blue Jays. He is a two-time World Series champion (’90 Reds and ’96 Yankees) and was inducted into the Dominican Republic Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008. Duncan also was a member of the 1993 Phillies team that won the National League pennant. Mariano Duncan enters his fourth season as Binghamton’s Bench Coach. He is a two-time World Seires champion (’90 Reds and ’96 Yankees
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