The Mets’ season has gone off the rails, and the manager seat is already part of the fallout. After a winter of big spending that was supposed to push New York forward, the club has instead landed among the worst teams in baseball, forcing a midseason shakeup and putting the next move under a microscope.
Carlos Mendoza was fired in the middle of the summer, and Andy Green stepped in as the interim manager. ESPN’s Jorge Castillo described the move this way: “The New York Mets fired manager Carlos Mendoza on Friday, the team announced, with the club toiling through a six-game losing streak in a disastrous season.
Andy Green was named interim manager for the remainder of the season. He will take over a 34-47 club coming off a hapless four-game sweep at the hands of the Chicago Cubs to fall to a season-worst 13 games under .500," ESPN's Jorge Castillo wrote.”
Even with the change on the dugout side, plenty of Mets fans are still frustrated that David Stearns remains in charge as President of Baseball Operations. Owner Steve Cohen, though, has made it clear he is not moving on from him.
“We’re two and a half years into a contract. Everyone forgets, does he get any credit for ’24?
Does that not count? We almost made it to the World Series.
That was just two years ago,” Cohen said. “It’s a mixed record.
I’m not going to say it’s going great, but it’s too early to really make evaluations.”
As the organization weighs its next step, ESPN’s Buster Olney pointed to a familiar name as a possible fit. “If Stearns opts for experience managing in the majors, then former Cubs manager David Ross -- for whom Green was a bench coach in Chicago -- could be a possible fit,” Olney wrote.
Ross checks a few boxes New York would likely want. He led the Cubs to the MLB Playoffs during his time there, and he also brings the perspective of a player who won two World Series.
Beyond the résumé, he has the reputation of being a steady manager, and there’s a sense that he wants back in after what many viewed as an unfair ending in Chicago. For a Mets club searching for stability, Ross is a name that fits the moment.
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