Tim Healey of Newsday wrote a phenomenal article yesterday about the Mets front office situation over the years and how many current general managers or high-level executives the team has seen walk away over the years.

The most successful of those is current Milwaukee Brewers general manager David Stearns, who was simply hired as a Mets intern. Omar Minaya was still the general manager at the time and wanted to retain him, however, he was unable to keep him past his internship as the Wilpons would not approve of adding a position to keep him.

As a result, Stearns left the Mets, who he grew up rooting for, and joined the Office of the Commissioner. Afterward, he went to work for the Cleveland Indians and then eventually ended up working for the Houston Astros as the assistant GM.

While the Mets were heading to the World Series in 2015, the Brewers decided to hand their GM position to Stearns who would lead them to where they are now, which is three wins away from where the Mets went in 2015, with a series of moves over the past year that included acquiring Christian Yelich in a trade with the Miami Marlins and signing Lorenzo Cain.

Now, while he is the most prominent name that left the organization, he is by no means the only one of note. Angels’ assistant GM Jonathan Strangio (2010-2011 organizational member) also occupies the list along with Brewers Director of International Scouting, Mike Groopman (2007 intern).

Andy Galdi (2009) and Scott Freedman (2007), meanwhile, went on to work for the Philadelphia Phillies, directly influencing the Mets future in the NL East. The former is the director of baseball research and development while the latter is director of baseball operations.

Furthermore, the Mets’ 2015 World Series foe currently has two former Mets executives in Mike Cifuentes and Guy Stevens. The first is the director of pro scouting while the other is the director of baseball administration and quantitative analysis.

The list goes on to include Adam Fisher (2003 Mets intern) who ascended through the Mets organization to become senior director of baseball operations. However, he would ascend to his top position with the Atlanta Braves, who offered him the assistant GM position.

Unfortunately, in his case, he did not last in that role past his first two months as the organization went under a major overhaul after the team ran into trouble over their international dealings.

Armando Velasco and Logan MacPhail (who now works for the Brooklyn Nets) also occupy the list, but there is a real point of listing all of these names out.

The Mets could have had their GM-in-waiting already in the organization, instead of having a debate about who will inherit the organization next.

For years, many thought that position might of to John Ricco, but that appears a near certainty to no longer be the case and, as a result, they are considering various external options.

It really would have been better to have their David Stearns already waiting in the wings today.

As Healey points out, the worst part of this is that the Mets seem to still be playing behind the eight-ball in one category: analytics. All of these guys have that background, and not one of them has been retained by the organization.