Ahead of the GM meetings, which begin Monday, Tim Healey of Newsday reports that the NY Mets are not expected to hire a new head of baseball operations this weekend. Instead, team president Sandy Alderson will continue to lead the baseball operations until a hire is made.
The Mets search for a new head of baseball operations (and/or a new general manager) has been fraught with a series of starts and non-starts. From the early dead end discussions with Billy Beane and Theo Epstein to the multiple denials of requests from members in the Brewers front office such as David Stearns and Matt Arnold, the Steve Cohen-lead group is having a hard time finding any high level executives willing to take on the task of turning around a Mets club that flirted with contention this past season.
Most recently, acting general manager Zack Scott was let go while dealing with an alleged DUI case. Executives like Braves’ assistant GM Ben Sestanovich, Red Sox executive Raquel Ferreira, former Angels executive Billy Eppler and others have been loosely linked to the Mets’ front office radar.
Sandy Alderson has a lot of work ahead as the GM Meetings approach, and it appears, at least through the weekend, that the responsibility to lead will be his and his alone.
