The New York Mets have reportedly made a request to interview an executive with local ties for their president of baseball operations vacancy.
Jon Paul Morosi of MLB.com says that Sandy Alderson and the Mets have asked the Cleveland Indians for permission to interview the team's current general manager, Mike Chernoff, to be the next president of baseball operations. Morosi adds that it's not yet clear whether the Indians will allow such an interview to take place, though teams typically do when a potential promotion is on the table.
We should disclose that Mike Chernoff's father, Mark Chernoff, is the SVP of Programming for WFAN, an Entercom property.
Independent of that connection, Chernoff has done an excellent job in helping to build a consistent contender in Cleveland, despite the Indians not spending at a level on par with the major-market teams they are often competing with. Since the conclusion of the 2015 season, Chernoff, 39, has been very successful working under current Indians' president of baseball operations Chris Antonetti, so the interest from the Mets is hardly a surprise.
If Chernoff were to leave for the Mets or another organization, it would naturally create speculation that he could trade for Indians' All-Star shortstop Francisco Lindor. That speculation, of course, already exists in Queens, with new owner Steve Cohen saying that he hopes to win a World Series in the next three to five years.
Morosi also mentions Tampa Bay Rays' special assistant to the general manager Bobby Heck as someone that's "under consideration for a top front-office role with the Mets," though it's unclear if that would be as president of baseball operations or the general manager underneath someone like Chernoff.
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