(Audacy) Three-time World Series-winning baseball executive Theo Epstein has long been in the Mets’ sights. Soon enough, they'll get their chance to interview him.
The Mets will speak with Epstein about their front office vacancy perhaps as early as this week, Mike Puma of the New York Post reported.
The Mets, who announced their plans to move on from manager Luis Rojas on Monday, are looking to replace general manager Zack Scott, who was placed on administrative leave in early September following a DUI arrest. Scott was named the acting general manager after New York had previously fired Jared Porter in January, when news broke that he had sexually harassed a female journalist by sending a series of explicit, unsolicited text messages in 2016.
Long touted as a baseball wunderkind, the 47-year-old Epstein has shown a Midas touch throughout his career, erasing the Cubs’ century-long World Series drought in 2016 after helping the Red Sox exorcise their own championship demons in both 2004 and 2007. The question now is whether Epstein is again willing to put himself through the daily grind of working in an MLB front office, a demanding position that took a noticeable toll on him throughout his Cubs and Red Sox tenures.
Currently working as a consultant to MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, Epstein has always loved a good challenge and the Mets, a title-starved franchise in desperate need of new leadership, would certainly scratch that itch. A man of expensive tastes, billionaire owner Steve Cohen has always been of the “go big or go home” mindset, which further explains his infatuation with Epstein, the biggest front office fish of them all. Whether that interest is mutual remains to be seen.
Other rumored candidates for the Mets include Athletics executive vice president of baseball operations Billy Beane and Brewers president of baseball operations David Stearns, who some believe would jump at the chance to join his hometown Mets. Of those three, the Mets are seen as most likely to land Beane, owing to his ties to current team president Sandy Alderson, whom he worked with in Oakland.
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