New York Mets team president Sandy Alderson addressed the media on Tuesday afternoon, taking questions from reporters for over a half-hour on the firing of Jared Porter as the team’s general manager following ESPN’s bombshell report on Monday night. Alderson shared that he first spoke with Porter around 5:30 PM EST on Monday. In that conversation, Porter confirmed that ESPN would be...
Read More
Sandy Alderson said in a press conference Tuesday afternoon the Mets will not immediately seek to replace Jared Porter as general manager following his termination. Alderson said he is comfortable with the front office group the Mets have in place right now, and that he will obviously “be a little more involved” in baseball operations once again. He did note that “in his...
Read More
Updated, 2:25 PM EST: As reported by Bob Nightengale of USA Today Sports, Major League Baseball is launching an investigation in jettisoned New York Mets general manager Jared Porter, who was fired Tuesday morning after ESPN’s late-Monday report detailing his sexual harassment of a female journalist in 2016. Porter, 41, could be facing a suspension for his conduct, and Nightengale suggests...
Read More
In the latest episode of Simply Amazin’, Mathew Brownstein of Metsmerized Online returns to join Tim in assessing where the New York Mets stand with a month until pitchers and catchers report to Port St. Lucie. The future is on full display as Baseball America included three Mets prospects — catcher Francisco Alvarez, shortstop Ronny Mauricio, and right-hander Matthew Allan —...
Read More
According to Bradford William Davis of the New York Daily News, an unnamed New York Mets player has spoken up in response to Monday night’s bombshell report via Mina Kimes and Jeff Passan of ESPN detailing Mets general manager Jared Porter’s sending of unsolicited, explicit images via text message to a female journalist covering the Chicago Cubs in 2016. The player, per Davis:...
Read More
Good Morning, Mets fans! Per Jeff Passan and Mina Kimes of ESPN, New York Mets general manager Jared Porter sent explicit and lewd photos and messages to a foreign female reporter in 2016 after she had ignored dozens of other messages from him for weeks. Passan discusses this story more in depth on ESPN.com. Latest Mets News Per Justin Toscano of NorthJersey.com, Sean Dean, who worked security...
Read More
