(AUDACY) Theo Epstein's third act as a lead baseball executive won't come at the helm of the New York Mets.
Epstein spoke with Mets owner Steve Cohen about the team's front office vacancy, but the sides mutually agreed that "this was not the right opportunity" for Epstein, Andy Martino of SNY reported Wednesday.
Epstein, 47, has been working as a consultant to MLB commissioner Rob Manfred since he resigned last November from his position as the Cubs' president of baseball operations. Epstein is the architect who built World Series champions that shattered the two most notorious championship droughts in sports.
Epstein's 2004 Boston Red Sox team won the organization's first World Series title in 86 years, snapping "the Curse of the Bambino." The Red Sox won another World Series in 2007 before Epstein left in October 2011 to lead the Cubs. Just more than five years later, a Cubs team heavy on homegrown talent won the franchise's first World Series title in 108 years.
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.
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