The Mets are reportedly set to introduce Billy Eppler as the club's general manager this week, and the agreement will be a four-year deal.
The terms of the agreement, reported by Audacy MLB insider Jon Heyman, have not been announced by the team, while an announcement of Eppler as the Mets new GM has not been made either. But according to the Daily News, that will be coming in a matter of days.
If Eppler's contract is indeed for four years, and if he were to stay in his role for the entirety of that deal, the Mets would have one general manager over a four-year span after having five in the previous four years, including Sandy Alderson, now the team president, John Ricco, Omar Minaya, J.P. Ricciardi, Brodie Van Wagenen, Jared Porter, and Zack Scott, the latter being let go after he was arrested for a DUI earlier this year.
Eppler spent a decade with the Yankees organization, including time as an assistant general manager from 2011 to 2015, before becoming the Angels GM from 2015 to 2020. He never oversaw a winning season in that time, but did help bring in Shoehei Ohtani and Anthony Rendon, while signing Mike Trout to a massive contract extension.
A four-year deal for Eppler would extinguish rumors that the Mets could be looking for a one-year plug until they took another shot at Milwaukee's David Stearns, but New York could still pursue Stearns for its vacant president of baseball operations position.
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