HIGH RECOMMENDATION

Terry Francona knew he would eventually lose his pitching coach, Mickey Callaway, and he thinks the Mets’ first-year manager is going to be a huge success.

“I think Mickey’s a star,” the Cleveland manager said. “I think once he made it known he wanted to manage, it was a matter of time until we lost him.”

Callaway spent a weekend in California golfing with Francona and Cleveland bench coach Brad Mills.

“It’s fun to see guys go through their firsts,” Francona said. “We just came back from a golf tournament at Pebble where we were together. We had four days where we don’t talk about much other