SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Tom Goodwin played in the major leagues for 14 seasons. And he has served as first-base coach for the New York Mets since 2011.

Now, the 48-year-old Goodwin is ready for a relatively new experience. Goodwin will make his debut as manager of the Scottsdale Scorpions in the Arizona Fall League on Tuesday afternoon. He will lead a group of prospects from the Mets, Yankees, Angels, Phillies and Giants.

"It's always good to have on your resume," said Goodwin, whose only previous managerial experience came in 2007 with the Lewisville (Texas) Lizards, in their lone season of existence in the short-lived Continental Baseball League. "But as far as having any aspirations to manage, not just yet. I'll have to see how this goes."

Of course, Goodwin would have preferred still being busy with the Mets to managing Tim Tebow and Mets prospects, including Gavin Cecchini and Champ Stuart, in the AFL. The Mets had dispatched Double-A Binghamton manager Pedro Lopez to Arizona to fill in for Goodwin in case the major league team was still active and playing in a postseason division series. But with the Mets losing to the Giants in the wild-card game, Goodwin arrived in time to lead Monday night's workout on the eve of the AFL season opener.

Lopez assisted Goodwin on Monday but will only remain through Thursday.

"He'll just be here for a couple of days to get me off and running a little bit," Goodwin said. "And then they've got to take the training wheels off. And it's going to be a little wobbly. So we'll see if I can get it under control."

Goodwin acknowledged still feeling a sting from the Mets getting bounced in the wild-card game after reaching the World Series in 2015. Noah Syndergaard and Madison Bumgarner took a scoreless duel into the latter innings, but the Mets lost 3-0 on Conor Gillaspie's homer against closer Jeurys Familia.

"We were in there watching it right now," Goodwin said after Monday's workout, referring to the division-series games. "It's going to be something that's not going to go away until we strap it on in spring training and come back out next year. We gave it a ride. We were right there. We were right where we wanted to be. After we had all the injuries and all the setbacks that we had, the guys stepped up and played tremendously. I couldn't be more proud."

Goodwin joked that Mets manager Terry Collins was going to let him depart to manage in the AFL even if the Mets were still playing.

"I was going to be here," Goodwin quipped. "They were going to send somebody else to coach first base. That's what Terry said: 'Send him. Let him go.'"