The Mets announced Wednesday that assistant GM Zack Scott has been named acting general manager in the wake of Jared Porter’s abrupt dismissal. The 43-year-old Scott was hired out of the Red Sox organization earlier this winter.
“Zack has plenty of championship experience to draw upon,” president of baseball operations Sandy Alderson said Wednesday in a statement announcing the decision. “He has been an integral part of our decision-making processes since his arrival. The entire baseball operations staff, including myself, will continue to work collaboratively.”
Scott’s recent work with the Red Sox included overseeing both the analytics department and the team’s professional scouting operations. He’d been with the Red Sox since being hired as an intern back in 2004 and steadily rose from that post to vice president of baseball R&D and eventually to assistant general manager.
Alderson said after Porter’s firing that the team wasn’t planning to hire a new general manager this winter, expressing confidence that in-house personnel was able to “move forward effectively” without bringing in an external hire. Scott, it seems, will take over the bulk of Porter’s vacated duties at least on an interim basis. Alderson, by all accounts, still has final say over baseball operations decisions, but Scott’s bump in title will expand his own responsibilities within the hierarchy. It’s always possible, too, that this acting/interim run could vault Scott into candidacy to take on the role on a permanent basis. Clarity on that front isn’t likely to come until this summer at the very earliest — and more likely won’t come until next offseason.
Breaking News: Zack Scott sends picture of inappropriate body part to woman. Just hope Mets dont screw up again!
Although as a Nats fan I wouldn’t mind the Mets messing up again
Vulgar Sexual harassment sure is funny!
You are so woke! No one is impressed.
If “woke” makes you a decent human being then I’m impressed, Tom.
But like … sexual harassment isn’t funny. I think that makes him a decent human being. And after this past year, that impresses me
They should be ok as like as his first name’s not Michael
A word to the wise: Don’t hire stalkers.
Poor Zach Scott…
Acting= interim
Unless they are acting on the interim to make some extra cash
I saw where Carl Weathers has a great class you can take!
They just said last week, “Alderson: Mets Won’t Hire New GM This Offseason
January 19th, 2021 at 3:26pm CST • By Connor Byrne.” New owner same Mets. Ahahahaha!
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I think that was referring to external candidates, not Scott or anyone currently in the organization.
They didnt. They used a guy who’s already part of the org. Theres a difference.
Article does not specify one way or the other, so good news “B” your record is still perfect, wrong again. Ahahahaha!
The Mets are unexpectedly without a general manager after firing the recently installed Jared Porter on Tuesday, but they will not hire a near-term replacement, president Sandy Alderson told Bob Nightengale of USA Today and other reporters. They’ll instead wait until next offseason, per Nightengale.
Is Zach Scott a new hire or was he a guy already in the org who’s taking on new responsibilities? Because seems to me like they haven’t hired anyone new in this situation.
DRAT! Sean Spicer must’ve turned them down!
I would have been happy with Scott getting the job in the first place (not to retroactively say I was against hiring Porter – I was in favor of it) so I think they’ll be in good shape.
Also, this just semantics, but wouldn’t it make more sense to call him the interim GM?
Better not screw up this time. I hope they did a deep background check on this guy.
I heard that his brother Michael didn’t allow him to work at his company because of his sketchy past.
I heard he had a dream to play high school baseball! Everybody wanted him to try weal weal hard to be a big ball-playing star!
Rangers29 has himself a stalker, and a real petty one.
A real pathetic one at that, especially if he’s an adult acting like that. Peaked in high school and life has sucked ever since probably.
Experience
Senior Vice President/Assistant GM
New York Mets
Dec 2020 – Present
New York, New York, United States
Executive Vice President/Assistant GM
Nov 2019 – Dec 2020
Greater Boston Area
Senior Vice President/Assistant GM
Nov 2018 – Oct 2019
Vice President, Baseball Research & Development
Nov 2016 – Oct 2018
Greater Boston Area
Director, Major League Operations
Nov 2011 – Oct 2016
Greater Boston Area
Assistant Director, Baseball Operations
Jan 2006 – Oct 2011
Greater Boston Area
Assistant, Baseball Operations
Jan 2005 – Dec 2005
Greater Boston Area
Baseball Operations Intern
May 2004 – Dec 2004
Greater Boston Area
Baseball Data Analyst
Diamond Mind, Inc.
Jul 2000 – May 2004
Lexington, MA
Analyzed major league play-by-play data and minor league statistics to evaluate player skills (running, throwing, defensive range, etc.). Aided software developers in designing artificial intelligence for a baseball simulation game. Provided technical support to customers. Wrote several articles for ESPN.com and the Diamond Mind blog.
SAS Programmer/Analyst
Core, Inc.
Jun 1999 – Jul 20001 year 2 months
Burlington, MA
Examined clinical and financial data for a disability management program, and presented findings to internal operations and clients (several Fortune 500 companies).
Pretty Good Resume.
You his LinkedIn friend?
4 GM’s in 4 years. Yet considered contenders.
No one considers the Mutts to be contenders. Last place finish, book it and lock it!
Perhaps he’s just a placeholder until they hire Theo next off season.
That’s a very sexist thing to say, why do you hate women?
Theo won’t take a job as GM. He will be president of baseball ops while Sandy does what he was hired to do in the first place. President of organization
I always thought Theo was their top target and was surprised that they even hired a general manager to begin with, knowing it would prevent them from hiring Theo next winter.
Obviously, scandalous circumstances led to a mulligan, so I’m not surprised that they’re essentially going to let Alderson run the show for a year before making Theo an offer he can’t refuse.
Third time’s a charm.