The Mets continue to search for a new baseball operations leader, but it doesn’t seem they’ve yet zeroed in on a likely hire. Michael Mayer of Metsmerized reported this morning that New York had recently spoken with Giants’ general manager Scott Harris. Andy Martino of SNY confirms the Mets were in contact with Harris but now rules him out as a potential candidate.
Evidently, that’s due to Harris not wanting to leave San Francisco. Andrew Baggarly of the Athletic (Twitter link) reports that the Bay Area native took himself out of consideration for the Mets’ job due to his preference to remain with the Giants. Harris has spent the past two seasons working as San Francisco’s GM, where he’s been second-in-command underneath president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi. The Mets’ top baseball ops job would’ve been a step up in responsibility for the 34-year-old Harris, but it seems he’s content with his current role.
Mayer also reports that Dodgers’ assistant general manager Brandon Gomes is seemingly out of consideration for the Mets. He suggests Gomes is likely to receive a promotion in the Los Angeles front office instead, jibing with similar reports by Martino over the past couple weeks. A former big league reliever, the 37-year-old Gomes has spent the past five seasons with the Dodgers, the last three in an assistant GM capacity.
The Mets’ search initially involved high-profile targets Theo Epstein, Billy Beane and David Stearns. For various reasons, none of that trio is still a possibility for New York, and Martino adds that the team has pivoted to targeting younger, up-and-coming executives in the Harris and Gomes mold. The SNY scribe adds that there are “one or two” candidates for the position already in the organization, although he rules out AGM Bryn Alderson — the son of team president Sandy Alderson, who is partly responsible for deciding on the next hire.
In one final wrinkle, Martino suggests the new hire might be brought in with the title of general manager as opposed to president of baseball operations. There’s a bit of semantics at play there, since the incoming hire would be in charge of daily baseball operations either way. Still, the potential change in title could be dependent upon whom the Mets eventually tab.
Teams are typically reluctant to allow in-house executives to interview for lateral positions elsewhere. New York was initially reported to be seeking a president of baseball ops, a higher title would likely allow more leeway in pursuit of rival GM’s like Harris. Were the Mets to hire another club’s assistant general manager, though, they’d only need to offer that person a GM title to offer a step up.
That’s a small matter, since the Mets are in position to create either role depending upon the previous title of whomever they hire. Still, the Mets’ GM/president of baseball ops twist subtly highlights how leaguewide title inflation plays into the hiring of front office personnel each winter.
This is to funny. Both Brandon Gomes, and Scott Harris said no. The Answer is RIGHT THERE JEFFFFFFFF LUNHOW.
MLB has canceled the winter meetings inspiration for a December 1 strike
Is this true, or a figment of your imagination?
I was thinking the same thing…
Why Lunhow? Sabean makes more sense. He’s been building winning teams for the past 4 decades. No reason why he can’t do it again.
#Giants74 As a long time Mets fan who grew up in NY I also lived in SF Bay Area and rooted for and went to many Giants games.
I am livid that Brian Sabean is not given the job already?!
What in the hell is Cohen waiting for? Sad Sandy not on board?
Doesn’t want to be shown up?
Ps. Giants have the best broadcast team in baseball and I like Ron Darling
Yes they do ! They add a lot.
It’s only when you watch other games that you appreciate it. Especially Padre games !
Save an win 3 championships in I believe 20 years with giants need to get a young in there. Why did the giant let him go ????
So has Lunhow.. He took the Astros from losing 101 games to rebuilding them and them going to 4 World series. He has six rings he was the head player development Scout with the Cards and did the same thing with them. He is very smart and knows about Analytics. Everyone likes Sabean because he is a big and sexy name. Look at all of the bad contracts he has handed out over the years. Or the lack of developing players. Lunhow has. Heck the Stros are back in the WS. You know what’s even more impressive. He drafted Altvue, Bregman, Correia, Springer, while being aggressive at the deadline and getting guys like Verlander, Grenike, Garret Cole. While adding guys like Kyle Tucker, and Yordan Alverez He was made the scapegoat to the whole sign stealing that Beltran, Hinch, and Cora all knew about it. Just look at the reaction to A.J Hinch’s interview he tried not to laugh and knew what was going on. NO thank you to Sabean.
Whoa Jose? What are you talking about? The Astros have been to 3 World Series, and won 1. Sabean has taken teams to 4 World Series, and won 3. I think you need to plant your feet back on earth.
And he was fired for the circumstances surrounding that one WS also, which certainly doesn’t help his case.
Say it with me everyone: LOLMETS
I’ll just add to the echo chamber.. seems to me even the rest of the baseball executive world thinks the Mets are a mess…
I’d like to believe the Mets actually HAVE a plan, and simply are not communicating it to the media. Which, honestly, is the RIGHT approach.
Much different from what “Jeff from Flushing” did previously, on a daily basis, with the media.
But I’m losing hope. Are they aware they did not actually **need** to wait till the off-season to begin working on this little project?
But if they have a plan, why wait? Especially when there are other potential openings that may be filled. And why go through all these different people to get turned down? Doesn’t seem like a firmly established plan.
No Manager , No GM???? Maybe Cohen is not going to be our savior? Please me your tush , and going to something positive for this organization!!!!!
What?
No comment.
Lolmets
So how long until Cohen names himself POBO & GM?
If he did that, he’d be a heck of a lot more honest about his intentions, unlike some other owners *cough*mor*cough*eno…
Wow. No one wants to be associated with the Mets.
Folks can keep saying that but it doesn’t make it true
You’re right Cosmo2. Saying it doesn’t make it true. The facts make it true.
Actually, this likely happens to a lot of teams in baseball. It’s just that the NY media reports on every single thing they can. Either that, or for most of the other teams, no one cares.
I mean, all of these ‘stories’ are literally just preliminary discussions or gauging interest and then everyone losing their minds with hack ‘OMG LOLMETS’ overreactions. It’s pretty hilarious how many people are so invested in what the Mets do despite hating them and how quickly they fill their diapers whenever anyone in the Front Office breathes.
A step up for Harris, sure. Far less media scrutiny in SF though. For Harris’ sake, the Giants have a fairly short window with some aging vets and need to win a lot of games for a couple more years. He might regret it in the end.
wow you really don’t understand anything about the giants, I don’t see how you could have so many bad takes in such a short comment
No…prov356…No…the Giants window is barely opening. What they did this year was just entertainment. They patched a season together with a pitching staff full of 1 year commitments. This is rebuilding at its finest, well at least for this year.
Lol, the 2021 Giants were like the one hit wonder “Wipe Out”. Those aging vets had their window this year and the Dodgers closed it on their home turf. Doubt the Dodgers and Padres will have as many injuries next season as they did this year. The NL West will be a battle, but it will be either SD or LA taking the NL West and WC.
Seriously? Again with the Padres??
Look at the Padres lifetime season percentages and realize they will be under .500 for another 8 years. It’s not a fluke – it’s a PATTERN.
For that matter, look at the Dodgers. How many World Series have they won with this ‘dynasty?’ One*. They have tons of free agents of their own to worry about.
I’m not saying the Giants are going to win it all next year, But to think it’s all Dodgers and Padres (again) is laughable.
dperez1:
You’re obviously either new to baseball, clueless, or just trying to jerk the chain of Giants fans. Only someone in one of those categories would make a prognostication as definite as yours before free-agency even starts.
You have no idea who any of the teams will sign, re-sign, or let walk. Anyone that’s not a baseball neophyte should know predicting winners and losers is difficult, even after spring training. and that goes for the most knowledgeable. But if you want to make yourself look clueless, go right ahead.
@dperez1: Oh, stop. The Giants edged the Dodgers out all season long. And they did it with a team that Pecota expected to have what, 75 wins? I’m not throwing shade at the Dodgers, who were an excellent team, but rather commenting on how good the Giants were.
LA will continue to be a force, but they’re going to have to fight upwind against expiring contracts and a weakened farm system. The Giants, from whom nobody expected anything, have coffers of money and an analytical shark in Zaidi. SD has Tatis and a bunch of scrubs who couldn’t stay healthy down the stretch. They have a lot of soul searching to do before they finish any better than 3rd in the NL West…
One hit wonder kid. That’s all they were this season. I don’t have to know who they’ll resign because the FO is going to think those same veterans will produce like they did this season and think that’s good enough. The rest we’ll plug in with a few signings. Like I said no way both LA and SD have the same high WAR players on the DL next season like they did this season. Oh btw- SF was ranked towards the bottom of WAR players on the DL. I’ll be looking for you next season so we can chat about who the clueless one is. Let’s see if you show up.
Incorrect. According to the Lost WAR metric, San Francisco was the third most injured team after the White Sox and the Mets with 12.86 WAR lost.
You’re funny Scott. To diss SD starting pitching for next season which by the way will be tougher than this seasons is comical. The Giants have 1 legit SP. They would have to sign 2 of the top SP FA just to be in the conversation of SD SP staff. I’m a Dodgers fan and you’d have to be an idiot not to be concerned about their depth. SD has less holes to fill than the Giants. Lol, now Zaidi’s a analytical shark … at the beginning of the 2021 season all I read on here from Giant fans is they need a new GM after the winter signings. The Giants flew under the radar last season … trust me it won’t happen again.
How soon you forget that Houston cheated which really should be the Dodgers WS. If it was the Giants or whatever your team is you’d say the same thing and you’re full of it if you say different. Those teams who played last year knew going in what the rules were for 2020. MLB network took a poll and over 90% of the fans wanted the season to be played so you can stick your sour grapes right in the trash can. The Dodgers have way less holes to fill than the Giants for next season so honestly I’m not worried about it. I do know the Giants will have a target on them for next year.
This shows you know nothing about baseball, go back under your bridge
giants have cy young contender Kevin Guasman, break-out star Logan Webb, All-Star Anthony DeShafani, Soild innings eater with Alex Wood, and plenty of money to spend this offseason.
they never rebuilded. the farm has some interesting talent but by the time they are up the current core will be old.
Hey Balk. I think you’re responding to someone else. I didn’t say anything about the Giants.
“Far less media scrutiny in SF…”
That’s a tired narrative that some fans in NY like to trot out on a regular basis. There are myriad reasons for anyone to accept or decline a job offer, and being afraid of the NY media is probably very far down the list of all the possible reasons.
Patience padawans. 95% of the reason you think no one wants the job is because it’s NY and everything gets leaked…or made up. Don’t you think other clubs go through similar stuff? You just don’t hear about it.
Pretty good, I only muted two posters in this thread.
If you disagree with someone, it does not mean you have to be insulting.
Lol
No one wants to be the meat in an Alderson sandwich.
youtube.com/watch?v=NVIbCvfkO3E
.LOL Mets
I hear the Mets reached out to Lou Brown about the GM position but he had someone who needed a set of whitewalls.
I am officially in the Fire Aldersons Hire Sabean camp.
It’d be really interesting to know if this is a product of big game fishing, I mean just because some of these candidates are AGM’s does not mean they aren’t sought after and hard to get. Or maybe it’s the Mark Cuban feel Cohen gives off, or Sandy Anderson or what idk. This is GM or POBO of a New York based team, say what you want about the fans, the media, the owner, the pressure and all that but this is GM or POBO of a New York team.
My apologies to the one Mets fan that people seem the troll on in here.
It seems as if the Mets are going to choose their next GM by process of eliminating everyone else from consideration until there’s only one person left on Earth.
Or they’re just conducting a normal search and gauging interest and narrowing their list down (or having it narrowed for them) and everyone is hysterically overreacting.
The World Series isn’t even over. Patience.
I don’t believe the reason the giants GM removed himself is due to wanting to stay in the Bay Area. He didn’t realize where New York was before this all started? Must not have liked the organizational structure
I think you’re being sarcastic but if you didn’t know it’s a MUCH different bay than SF
Luhnow would be a great hire for the Mets. It will never happen though. He is being black-balled by MLB for filing a lawsuit against the Astros and Crane in which he alleges that his firing was a negotiated deal between Crane and Manfred. It’s not likely you will ever see Luhnow working in MLB in any capacity again.
Lol
Luhnow is correct in that lawsuit.
He has been made the scapegoat for a league wide problem
documented by the national sports press and writers in various cities.
Yankees and Red Sox have been filming and decoding signs for at least a decade
according to sources in the Media.
At least a dozen teams have been documented as using sophisticated methods to steal and decode signs.
I Houston, it was the players, not the Executives who were disciplined and made the “fall guys”…
Wait till that lawsuit gets to Depositions under oath…
Manfred and MLB could have a huge problem on their hands…
Wow Jeff, doing your own pr. I assume it is you because no one else would be ignorant enough to think you were being blackballed or deserve a shot at any baseball position.
Clickbait
Where was the suspension of Cashman for his Yankees teams full of cheating roided up players that “won” multiple “tainted titles” by cheating?!
I am not Jeff Luhnow.
Just saying that we are a country of giving people second chances and more.
Luhnow has paid his debt and more by sitting out a year+ and by giving up a lucrative salary for that period.
And, his sin was only a “failure to supervise properly”
Luhnow was never proven to have stolen any signs, did not come up with the plan to steal signs, did not decode any signs that were allegedly stolen and he was not actively engaged in stealing signs etc…
It is not like he tarnished baseball forever by using rosters filled with drugged up, roided up players like some teams including the Yankees.
No one is in a hurry to take over a dumpster fire.
Luhnow should get the job based on qualifications and performance.
If Luhnow does not even get interviewed by the Mets, then Luhnow will have another
lawsuit against MLB and the Mets…
Oakland A’s pitcher Chris Bassitt says Astros weren’t only team in MLB stealing signs
Bassitt also says every team knew what was going on in Houston/
By Dayn Perry
cbssports.com/mlb/news/oakland-as-pitcher-chris-ba…
See Article. Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox, Cubs, Nationals and many more teams implicated in sign stealing scandal.
Astros cheated for 1-2 years?!
Yankees have used their video room to steal and decode signs SINCE at least 2015 (6-7 YEARS)
Red Sox decoding signs since at least 2016 (5-6 years)
DOUBLE STANDARD MUCH?!
Looks like the decisionmakers in the Mets Front Office are going to be: Alderson, Alderson’s son and Cohen….Yikes!!!
You’d be right if next season were to start tomorrow
Why not Sabean???
Sabean or Duquette would be good options along with the younger, analytics savvy Jeff Luhnow.
take minasian off our hands!
I think everyone knows that they have their work cut out for them if they take this job and would want complete freedom to run the team but know they will be undermined by balderson and his son.
I could see why someone might be hesitant to take over the mets. They’re not a very good team, don’t have a very good farm, have some bad contracts on the books and the position probably comes with an expectation to win rather quickly (I could be wrong here).
BAD OWNER
Mets have a decent team with a decent farm that needs improvement.
If everything was great with the Mets, then there would not be Front Office position(s) open..
Metsfan22 is looking more and more likely to get the job.
Another turn down such a great job LMAO.No one wants to work for this owner or disfunctional organization.Simple as that keep dreaming.
This organization is a hot bag of dung. Damn…
Q: In any industry, who takes a job working for someone known to be a problem? A: Someone who desperately needs A job more than they need The Right job.
Nobody wants that gig.