The Mets added four members to their front office according to Tim Britton of The Athletic.
The roles are:
- Jonathan Strangio as vice president of baseball operations
- Nate Horowitz as senior director of player personnel
- Nick Spar as director of baseball operations
- Steve Martone as a special assistant
All four worked with Mets general manager Billy Eppler in Los Angeles.
Eppler is adding his own favorable voices to the front office after signing on to be the general manager with a structure already in place. That includes assistant general managers Ian Levin, Bryn Alderson, and Ben Zausmer, along with team president Sandy Alderson.
Strangio is 33 and a Long Island native. He previously interned for the Mets in 2010-11 and would eventually rise to assistant GM with the Angels.
Martone spend nine years with the Yankees from 2006-2015 where he became the manager of professional scouting. He was another assistant GM under Eppler in Los Angeles.
Horowitz has led the Angels scouting department since 2016 but decided to leave in November.
Spar followed Eppler’s footsteps. He was a baseball operations assistant until September and then joined Eppler at WME, the agency that Eppler briefly worked at to expand their baseball department.
These four will now join Elizabeth Benn in the front office. Benn was announced as Director of MLB Operations and is the highest-ranked female ops employee in franchise history. She marked the first major hire by Eppler.
Now as the lockout hopefully ends on Tuesday the Mets front office needs to be on the same page with a flurry of moves expected to happen once it’s over. It’s good that Eppler has previous experience with the four men recently hired and hopefully combining them with the Mets power structure that was in place prior will lead to new ideas and creative ways of building out a roster.
