1:15PM: Stearns is “happily employed” with the Brewers, he told MLB Network’s Jon Heyman (Twitter link). Stearns also declined to clarify how many years or possible years may remain on his Brewers contract.
8:14AM: The Mets have twice been denied in their attempts to interview David Stearns about their president of baseball operations job, as Brewers owner Mark Attanasio declined the Mets’ requests both last season and earlier this offseason. However, the Mets are seemingly prepared to simply wait the Brewers out, as The Athletic’s Tim Britton, Britt Ghiroli, and Ken Rosenthal report that New York will approach Stearns about their front office vacancy next winter, when his contract with the Brewers may or may not be up.
In the interim, the Mets’ search has been focused on assistant general manager types, who would become the club’s GM in 2022. (Former Nationals AGM Adam Cromie has recently emerged as a favorite for the job.) Should the Mets’ plan to land Stearns come to fruition, Cromie or whomever ends up in the GM role would then become the ops department’s chief lieutenant to Stearns, who would carry the official PBO title and sit at the top of the Amazins’ decision-making pyramid.
It would make for an unusual dynamic for at least one season in the team’s front office, not that there has been much normalcy associated with the Mets’ very public search to date. Several potential candidates have already declined interviews with the Mets, quite likely because of the associated uncertainty. Looking it from the perspective of an assistant GM, if you’re comfortable with your current team, why take the risk of accepting what might be a one-year job, should Stearns (or another incoming boss that you aren’t familiar with) decides that they want their own handpicked GM as their top lieutenant?
Waiting for Stearns also carries its own set of challenges for the Mets. “Stearns has serious interest in the position,” Britton/Ghiroli/Rosenthal write, which isn’t really surprising given that Stearns grew up as a Mets fan in New York and even interned in the club’s front office in 2008. It could be that some unofficial back-channel communication may have already taken place between the two sides, though Stearns’ feelings about the job could change if and when he has a formal interview with team officials. (It can also be assumed that Attanasio would likely be on the lookout for any sort of early talks of any kind between Stearns and the Mets, should he feel tampering is taking place.)
Stearns has also enjoyed a lot of success in Milwaukee, and could prefer to remain with the Brewers on another contract extension, or perhaps even investigate a potential job opening with another team besides the Brewers or Mets. Plus, Stearns’ contractual situation is a little unclear. The Mets reportedly believe Stearns will be available next winter, though reports have suggested some type of vesting option could be in place for Stearns to remain with in Milwaukee through the 2023 season. If this option does exist and it vests, the Mets would find themselves putting their front office plans on hold for yet another season — assuming Stearns would remain at the top of their list, and another executive didn’t emerge in the interim.
Back off losers.
It seems a very Mets thing to do to leave your true gm/pbo slot open for… one? Two? Three? Unknown? number of years because there’s a chance a guy might become available at some unknown time, and then you can try to interview him and see if he can be convinced to going the circus.
Mets are going to do Mets things.
Being smart is a Mets thing to do?
No, it isn’t.
The Mets are the Mets
Isn’t Stearns the guy who have Yelich that $200M extension AFTER he got injured?
Yelich signed in the off-season before his injury
Only in Mets Land.
Brewers are C L U E L E S S
He will sign with METS AS SOON AS HE’s FREE; he STARTED HIS CAREER IN METS FRONT OFFICE. If the Brewers were Smart they’d Trade him for compensation
This is response is so Mets’ fans.
Does this mean that the Mets will be selling Brewers gear in their team shop this year?
The Brewers have made the postseason 4 straight years under Stearns. In 50 years, they’ve only been in the playoffs 7 times. He and they are clueless alright
Hello Laverne! Shirley has plans in NY
I can hear Mr Met singing “schlemiel schlimazel…… ” lol Great Comment!
Name Chris Christie as PRESIDENT of baseball ops. At least he won’t have to lie about how he got the job
Even the Knicks didn’t go to that level of dysfunction. They signed Rose instead of waiting for Ujiri.
No, they did NOT take him from Tampa Bay.
Either way…what point are you making? Both were hired and given…PROMOTIONS. The Brewers didn’t sit around and wait 3 years to hire someone hoping they could poach another teams PBO.
But when all the other Executives turned the Mets down, I stopped worrying. I thought they’d get Stearns or Arnold this year…but neither wanted to leave…for whatever reasons. Probably because it’s a screwed-up leadership group with Alderson and Cohen, but regardless, Stearns was reportedly not ready to move on and Arnold just turned them down for whatever reason. So hard to see what’ll change next season…unless they win a WS.
It’s official—the Mets are stalking David Stearns.
Really don’t see the obsession with this guy. That Yelich and JBJ contract don’t look so good. Hasn’t won anything either
He’s got a mid/small market team as an honest competitor Must be doing something right
Give those scouts/pitching development a raise or gift basket.
Don’t forget the extra year he gave Lorenzo Cain. Big mistake
Cain helped them win the division a couple of years ago. One win from the WS. It sucks he has one more year but they wouldn’t have had prior success without him
JPJ?
Reading is hard. He didn’t say JPJ he said JBJ ya know Jackie Bradley JR? Some of you really need your keyboards taken away
And yet those two contracts combined pale in comparison to the one given to Lindor. Sterns has them in playoffs last four years in a row and positioned again for 2022. Each year the push into the playoffs goes a bit deeper. He’s doing fine.
Both were good signings at the time. JBJ was a guy who’d never had a year below 2 WAR and had average over 3 WAR per season for the last…6 or 7 years.
Yelich was 27 and slashed .327/.415/.631 with a 1.041 OPS the previous two seasons…and it was Attanasio that pushed to extend him. But that was ALSO a team friendly deal.
Seems kinda disingenuous to take the two deals that worked out worst for a GM and say, ‘this guy signed these two players…why would you want him?’
He’s also built and developed the best young pitching talent in the league in Burnes, Woodruff, Peralta, Lauer, Houser, Small and Ashby, traded for Adames this past year…adding a power hitting SS who can play very good defense,
More important than just picking individual talent that he’s acquired…LIKE those two monster years of Yelich for 4 prospects who’ve done nothing, he came in and made the Brewers competitive WHILE they were rebuilding. The Brewers are JUST NOW getting to their window where they’re supposed to be competitive.
In short…go look at the actual moves Stearns had made if you want to understand why he’s sought after. He’s one of the best Executives in the game. Looking at just two contracts that ended up being bad…it’s just ignorant.
Stop making sense. Mets fans can’t handle logic and common sense.
Makes a lot of sense. Surprised they aren’t going after more of the Brewers assistant GMs and other front office personal. People who Stearns is more comfortable with and would be more inclined to leave in the GM role when he comes on board.
C’mon now, its the Mets we’re talking about.
they tried that, but the brewers denied them permission to speak to Arnold, even for a premotion
How do we know they won’t?
If they’re going to wait that long, Michael Avanati will be available by then.
They’ll probably pick someone like Kevin Mather instead.
White Sox fans will gladly let the Mets have Kenny Williams.
Why do they feel the urgent need to put someone in the GM role at this point? Play out the year with Sandy and the remaining staff (Ricco, etc) and make a run at Sterns then in 2022.
That’s essentially what they’re doing. The lawyer is Sandy’s day to day operations guy and then he’ll become Stern’s guy. I like it.
It’s already set in stone. Stearns was a huge Mets fan growing up and the Brewers wouldn’t be able to deny anything.. sorry Brewers you’re messing with the emperor and his Death Star here…
Please, Mets are Jar-Jar Binks, unnecessary, irrelevant with slight racist undertones and cut for being annoying, adding nothing to the story but being comic relief. Every kingdom needs a jester – dance.
The Braves win one lucky ring that they won’t see again for the next 20 years bc ….. welll…. (Georgia sports is a good laugh) and he doesn’t know how to act lol
Mets, though, haven’t won since 1986. Even the lowly Nationals and Marlins have won since then.
Having a good second half & post season is NOT lucky. Many, including me (a Met fan) favored the Braves to win the NL East preseason. And at this point, I consider them the favorite for next season. Of course, there’s a lot of work to do this off season. But the Mets don’t have a GM yet!
If Georgia sports is a good laugh….Atlanta beat LAD, and it wasn’t close, then beat the Cheatin’ Asstros; Georgia is #1 in college football, and they don’t have a hockey team, sooooo, are you referring to their girl’s softball league?
I get a good laugh watching the sports segments on NYC nightly news of them trying to find the good in NY sports (I live in Queens). You were just a twinkle in your parents eye when Buckner gifted the Mets their most recent ring. TOP GUN was the #1 film that year — and it finally gets a sequel next year, so who knows? Maybe you’ll get a shot every time the undead Tom Cruise has a need for speed and plays volleyball with the boys.
@Metsfan22… Do you really want to dive into Georgia sports versus New York sports presently? I mean NY is trotting out the Jets, Giants and your beloved New York Mess right now. Lol.
Georgia isn’t on the top of the mountain when you look at every sport, but they’re presently in a better spot than New York.
Be careful with those stones in that glass house.
You’re embarrassing yourself again Metsfan.
In defense of the Mets, they’ve made it to the WS in each decade with the exception of the 90’s. Just not very good at winning them (2-3).
And let’s not forget that Senator Herschel Walker will soon be playing Russian roulette under the Capitol Rotunda!
You sound insecure. Aw.
Lol. I wonder if anyone else has had to get a restraining order against a team?
“Mr. Cohen,
My answer is still no. Not now, not ever.
Sincerely,
David”
If they don’t get Sterns, you realize they’re going to take Cashmen when his contract expires, ya? You’d better hope Sterns says yes.
Let’s look down the road at that conversation…..
Cohen: “Mr. Cashman, I see you were fired from the Yankees, have no job, and are destitute; so, it’s obvious you want the GM job for the Mets and we would love to have you. Can you start tomorrow?”
Cashman: “No, thanks, Mr. C, I’m good”
Lolololololol
Do you actually live under a bridge? Because I think you are LITERALLY a troll. Watch out for that last billy goat. He got the meats.
Damn, MetsFan22. You make yourself look so stupid with your comments. All your absolute statements of how it just can’t go wrong for the Mets. You’re this sites biggest, preteen idiot.
The Yankees have always been the evil empire. Cashman referred to their team as the Death Star. How is this a Mets reference?
Stearns currently works for a good owner. Beware of the NY Mess and that clown show
Have you even seen Star Wars? Here’s a hint……It didn’t work out for Vader or the Death Star.
How did the Mets somehow get even more dysfunctional once that dork bought the team?
Seriously! It’s not like this is shrewd or anything.
Just keep telling yourself that.
Cohen is going to Make George Steinbrenner Look like a PAUPER … Can you say 400M+ Payroll???
Okay. I wasn’t quite certain of it but now I’m certain. You’re pretty much busting Mets fans chops. Perhaps a specific MetsFan. >=}
Good job on blurring the line between the crazy things MetsFan22 actually says and reality.
In related news, Adam Cromie withdraws.
More seriously, leaking information like this can be considered tampering.
I suspect Stearns will sign an extension with the Brewers this offseason, so likely doesn’t matter.
Or he will be a bag boy at a grocery store. What he won’t do is go to the Mets. Lololol.
The entire PoBO/GM search for the past year has been crazy. Never seen anything quite like it.
It’s been going on for years. This is the 3rd year the Mets have tried to hire Stearns…
Why on earth would he do that before he sees what Cohen is willing to offer him. He doesn’t look stupid.
Cromie HAS withdrawn!
“Hey babe, if it doesn’t work out with that guy, can I call dibs? I could wait a year. Or two. Or six.”
Chuck Schumer will get involved at some point.
Probably will legislate someone into the position.
Tiger fans offer you…..Al Avila.
Just kidding. We love Al. Really.
No you don’t. You’d trade him for a Mr. Met autograph and a stale bag of Big League Chew
Stearns isn’t going anywhere. According to Wisconsin sports radio, he’s signing a contract extension before spring training in 2022.
Mets are probably leaking this to justify them failing twice to hire a POBO. If the Brewers extend Stearns contract this will blow up on Mets.
Or is this Stearns leaking this to increase his leverage for a contract extension or to force his way out to join the Mets.
If this is the Mets putting this out there it looks like tampering.
Stearns owns Milwaukee. In NY, just another number. If the Mets don’t win with him, then where does he go?
Once again Cohen is refusing to Clean House now of Sandy Alderson and Son who are the Problems along with the Wilpon Holdovers. Until Cohen changes the Culture it will continue to be the Same Old Mets. The Mets need to go in a completely different direction which with Sandy is impossible since he is the poster boy for LOL Mets.
Just take him out back and Old Yeller him. It is beyond time.
Who’s going to want to take the GM job if you only have a year until someone else comes in a takes control of operations?
Exactly this is a Sandy scheme to retain total control and to enable the Alderson Mets dynasty keeping the seat warm for his Son. LOL so obviously self serving to the detriment of the Mets long term and Mets fans.
So if the Mets plan to just sit back and wait til Stearns contract is over why would you make that public? All of the leverage is now not only in Stearns hands but also the Brewers who now have added motivation for getting a new deal done with him.
I wonder which will happen first, the Mets moving to Mercury or hiring a PoBO…
Not just that, but you just made filling the current void nearly impossible because nobody is going to leave his/her job to take this on a short-term basis.
Look I said it before and I’ll say it again. Stearns isn’t leaving Milwaukee for this freak show. I’m quite sure The Brewers are waiting for what everyone else is waiting for, A new CBA to see exactly how much money they’re ACTUALLY going to have. They have a whole year to see what pans out out so I’d go looking for someone more your speed than Stearns. There must be a Little League Coach somewhere since this is a Mickey Mouse Organization. Heyyyy, What about Eisner?
The Brewers denied the Mets the opportunity to talk with Stearns and others. To me, thinking logically, instead of saying “ha ha dumb Mets” or “No one wants the job”, perhaps they actually DO want the job but their current employer won’t let them out of the contract. Sounds more to me that Millwaukee would have a much tougher time trying to replace Stearns rather than Stearns not being interested. But that requires critical thinking and not being a sheep to pile on. BTW, half you support teams not nearly as successful – Pirates? Rangers? Brewers even = I mean they made the playoffs how many times ever? Phillies – longest playoff drought in the game???? Oh and the MARLINS. If ever there should be an LOL anything it should be Marlins.
Mets are the worst of all the teams you mentioned because of the City and the owner.If it were as great as you think someone would have left their job or accepted the job offered.This just shows how bad things are with your team.
And along comes Bob with his logical insight about Cohen again.
@toofpick78 One good thing about Cohen as owner and what has he done to show you he is not involved up to his ears.
In pro sports owners generally don’t let guys go if it’s a lateral move. They will if it’s an upward move
The Brewers have him for 3 more years.
Been reported his current deal ends 2022
It’s also been reported that there’s a 2023 team option that’s what they’re saying saying here on Wisconsin sports radio
Love how a majority of posters assume Stearns wants to move back to New York. Is that inside information? His wife is from Houston. I think the dog they have is from Missouri.
At what point does this become STALKING David Stearns.He does not want to come to NY for the same reasons everyone else does not.First bad place to live or work.Now lets see what else bad owner and a screwed up front office by next year this will be even worse.Cut your losses now hire Crummie and move on.
If the Mets leaked this is it not tampering???… Maybe stearns team leaked this as leverage for an extension… but radio here in Wisconsin is saying he has a vesting option based on wins and playoff appearances and it has already vested IF that’s the case 2023 become a team option now so brewers could still get comp.. the Mets can’t sit and wait can they?? What gm could you hire knowing they really don’t want you there going to replace you with a president of baseball operations as soon as they can…. Doesn’t send a good message….just my opinion
Of course this is tampering. Attanasio has to be beyond livid with the Mets. Baseball better do something about this, or else SM teams will continue to be taken advantage of by the behemoths until this sport is left with just the behemoths.
It’s not tampering! It’s a lateral move.
I believe it’s tampering to leak out that they plan on hiring Stearns next year because they “think” his contract is up, when it’s likely that it’s not up.
This is so desperate and sad.
I would love this to be true but it’s nothing more than bad reporting from one or two individuals speculation of a situation.
Show me one reliable source.
Commenting so passionately over something so speculative shows how fragile some people’s minds are. Or maybe they just have nothing better to do with time.
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To me you just look disingenuous because you probably take MLBTR’s word for it in most cases.
You may not like the look of this but there’s no point in denying it. It’s true.
Might as well bring Omar Minaya back as GM for one year. He’s still around, knows the organization, might be ok with going back to where he is right now after one year. And afterwards, he can interview with Stearns to see if he remains a fit moving forward beyond 2022.
Omar Minaya is the worst!! He will just come in and sign Albert Pujols to a 10 year deal and whatever other aging player is out there.
He helped bring in Luis Rojas and we all saw how that worked out for us!
Mets are gonna start driving by Stearns’s house.
Why would David Stearns take a demotion?
Mets starting to get nosey…
“1:15PM: Stearns is “happily employed” with the Brewers, he told MLB Network’s Jon Heyman (Twitter link). Stearns also declined to clarify how many years or possible years may remain on his Brewers contract”
So in 2022 the Mets are going to go into their 3rd offseason without a POBO, and it’s all because of a man who doesn’t want to go anywhere
Seems about right
The Mets are the dude who keeps asking the girl to prom, but gets rejected, and files a harassment charge
Why would Stearns take over a crappy organization with an egotistical moron like Cohen who knows nothing about baseball?
Ducky Buckin Fent Still Targeting Victoria Bekham After Her Marriage With David Bekham Ends.
Eat your hearts out, fellas.
Step off, Ducky, or we will get a restraining order.
Ah.
I see the wave of jealousy has begun.
Tidal wave of pure unadulterated jealousy …
I even have a great picture with us together; after a fairly decent cut-and-past job.
Again, nothing to do. Hope you guys are filthy rich.
I really think MLB needs to get involved and force a small-market team to give a GM to the big market team, for parity of course.
It’s just not fair…. Why should small markets get all the good GMs? I think this will help the excitement in the league, and the GM has probably been paid for through the revenue sharing anyway.
Revenue is shared, why not personnel? Fair all the way around.
Phillies To Hire Anirudh Kilambi As Assistant GM take this Muts fans he is coming to Philly
from the Rays just announced.
Lol Mets
Maybe I’m a gluten for misery but I’m kind of interested in this development. I wonder if the Mets really can woo Stearns away.. eventually.
I think we all know Cohen can definitely offer greater financial incentives. There’s also one other aspect to this; flattery. It has to be flattering to Stearns to have the Mets organization pinning away for him. Ego can be a powerful motivator. I suppose that aspect just depends on who Stearns really is.
The more fun aspect of this is the rivalry this might create between the Brewers and Mets both on the field and between the fans. I love a good rivalry between teams.
Brewers fans couldn’t care less about the Mets.
Even though the franchise is a joke I have hand it to the Mets fans for living under the illusion that everyone is dying to come to the second New York team.
billkane and that Cohen can pay anything see what offering more has got them.LMAO
Well if BOB said it then…
I think Bob slurred it
Yeah I had to read bob 3 times and then drink 3 beers to understand it
The Mets are the stupidest and leakiest organization, Stearns and anybody else need to stay away, they are the worst kind of idiots by making their search so public, what a press nightmare for a new exec in an already challenging city to work in
I think Lance is low-key BOB, and you know what they say about what BOB says…
WTF?
Typical Muts fan whining get over it your team sucks and so does the Owner
mets are waiting for their guy. is this such a big deal? we’ll probably never know the back-channel convos being had. he wouldn’t sabotage his current contractual situation publicly so that’s why we know as little as we do. mets fans just have to hope they snag him next year.
looks like the FO is making all the right moves (so far) even without a GM including QOs. i think they’ll be aggressive on guys like Loup and Stroman but won’t go overboard with the risks (too many years or dollars). I personally don’t think they should go for Baez. trading guys like Davis or Smith might be the smartest move to make and targeting non-QO free agents (like Bryant).
The thing is that he clearly doesn’t want to be their guy. No one does. It’s pathetic how much the Mets are pining for him. No way he wants to move into the dumpster fire that is Mets management when he has a great operation going in Milwaukee
Whoda thunk that life as a Mets fan could get worse post the Wilpon era? Good grief!
Let the fans be the collective GM. They don’t really have anything to lose at this point
I know right, like jumping off the roof type stuff. Serious business here.
You Mut fans will live in misery until the day Cohen sells.Your team is in trouble for years to come thanks to what is going on now and in the past.LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSERS
You never disappoint, Bobby