As the long front-office search continues, the New York Mets can cross another candidate off their list as Red Sox executive vice president and assistant GM Raquel Ferreira has declined to interview for the club’s top job, saying it was not ‘a fit at this time’ in a report from The Boston Globe.
Instead of leaving the Sox, Ferreira will remain with the organization where she has been with for 23 years.
After Ferreira declined to interview for the position, she was added to a long list of candidates who were all linked to the Mets’ job. The list includes former Red Sox and Cubs GM Theo Epstein, Athletics executive VP of baseball operations Billy Beane, Brewers president of baseball operations David Stearns and GM Matt Arnold, Giants GM Scott Harris, Dodgers assistant GMs Brandon Gomes and Jeff Kingston, Cardinals GM Mike Girsch, Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro, Twins assistant GM Daniel Adler and now Ferreira.
This is the second offseason the Mets are having trouble hiring a president of baseball operations. The club hired Jared Porter but was soon fired after it was revealed he had sent inappropriate text messages to a female reporter when he was working with the Cubs. Zack Scott then took over as the acting general manager, but he too was eventually let go after he was placed on administrative leave after pleading not guilty to a DWI charge.
If Ferreria had gotten the Mets’ job, she would’ve been the second female head of baseball operations in the MLB – behind Kim Ng who became the first with the Miami Marlins.
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