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Under new owner Steve Cohen, it appears the New York Mets could be employing a well-structured, “it takes a village” approach in constructing their new front office.
According to Mike Puma of the New York Post, the Mets “will likely have a president of baseball operations and general manager” serving under former Mets GM Sandy Alderson, whom Cohen tabbed as team president as his first order of business in late-September.
A detailed, compartmentalized front office should assist in bringing some structure back to the Mets front office, as opposed to autocratic tendencies it exhibited under previous ownership, regardless of who was general manager.
Who Cohen and Alderson have in mind is anyone’s guess at this point in the process. Rumors of interest in Rays special assistant and former Astros scouting executive Bobby Heck have been floated, as has Oakland assistant GM Billy Owens, with whom Alderson has a working relationship, as Puma notes in his New York Post story.
MMO’s Sam Lebowitz presented a list of potential hires to assume positions in Cohen and Alderson’s front office a few weeks back, which included Heck, Owens, and a number of other prominent candidates.
We’ll keep you posted with any new information as it becomes available.
