David Stearns to be hired as Mets president of baseball operations

\n”,”providerName”:”Twitter”,”providerUrl”:”https://twitter.com”,”type”:”oembed”,”width”:550,”contentType”:”rich”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”Since the moment Cohen took over as the Mets’ owner in November 2020, he began searching for a long-term baseball operations leader. Since then, the Mets have leaned on four executives to lead the department, including Sandy Alderson, Jared Porter, Zack Scott and Billy Eppler. That whole time, the idea of hiring Stearns intrigued Cohen, but the young executive’s contract commitments with the Brewers made it impossible.\n\nWith those walls down, the Mets hope Stearns can now become a long-term answer, ushering in an era of stability and success in Queens.\n\nHis resume suggests he can. Upon graduating from Harvard, Stearns began his baseball career as an intern with the Omar Minaya-led Mets, who wanted to hire him full time but did not have an available position. Instead, Stearns moved on to Major League Baseball’s front office, to the Guardians and eventually to the Astros as an assistant general manager.\n\nHis next jump was to become GM of the Brewers, a small-market team he took to the postseason in four consecutive years from 2018-21. Along the way, Stearns earned a promotion to president of baseball ops in Milwaukee. Following the ’22 season, he stepped down from that post to take on an advisory role, in what many around the game saw as a prerequisite to his hiring in Flushing. The sides began negotiating recently, before coming to an agreement on Tuesday.\n\n“He’s solid — very solid,” said one Stearns confidant who wished to remain anonymous because the deal is not finalized. “He’s a good listener. He’s not this ‘analytics-crazy’ type of guy. Baseball-wise, he’s balanced. He’s well-rounded.”\n\nIn Milwaukee, Stearns took over a fourth-place team and reversed its fortunes through a slew of transactions — including a 2018 trade for Christian Yelich, who won the National League MVP Award in his first season with the Brewers. Stearns finished tied for second in MLB Executive of the Year voting that year, then made the playoffs again the following season. Under Stearns, the Brewers finished in first or second place in every full season from 2017 to the present.”,”type”:”text”},{“__typename”:”OEmbed”,”html”:”

.@spillygoat19 and @CJNitkowski react to the news of David Stearns reportedly heading to New York. pic.twitter.com/r3vB0uQHZw

— MLB Network Radio on SiriusXM (@MLBNetworkRadio) September 12, 2023

\n\n”,”providerName”:”Twitter”,”providerUrl”:”https://twitter.com”,”type”:”oembed”,”width”:550,”contentType”:”rich”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”“When you hear the name ‘David Stearns,’ you think of Harvard and just the intelligence in the sense of his approach,” said Mets reliever Phil Bickford, who played under Stearns from 2020-21 in Milwaukee.\n\nBack in New York, Stearns will work to revamp a Mets roster that won 101 games last season but stumbled this year, selling off key pieces at the Trade Deadline. He also must address the futures of Eppler, who remains under contract as GM and is widely expected to stay aboard in that role, and manager Buck Showalter, who has a year left on his deal. Showalter said Tuesday that he has not discussed his future with Cohen or anyone in the front office.\n\n“I don’t think about those things,” Showalter said. “Right now, it’s about today. It’s about tonight. We’re all trying to win in a very competitive business. It’s not the time and place for my mind to be going there.”\n\nHowever Stearns proceeds, the Mets will rely on him to reorient the franchise following a disappointing 2023 campaign that came on the heels of a historic offseason spending spree. Early injuries to Edwin Díaz and Justin Verlander unmoored the Mets, who also received uncharacteristic performances from several key veterans. Rather than maintain the same strategies amid an uncertain future, Cohen and Eppler orchestrated a historic Deadline selloff of Verlander, Max Scherzer and several other veterans.\n\nCohen then set his sights on Stearns.\n\n“I’m always open to ideas,” the owner said last month when asked about his desire to hire a president of baseball ops. “I had the conversation with Billy. He’s fully supportive. It’s just a question of finding the right person.””,”type”:”text”}],”contentType”:”news”,”subHeadline”:”Brewers executive agrees to 5-year deal to head NY’s front office”,”summary”:”NEW YORK — David Stearns was raised on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a baseball-crazed Mets fan who would stay up late to listen to games and use the pillows on his bed to cushion indoor bullpen sessions. His grandfather hooked him on the game with stories of old”,”tagline({\”formatString\”:\”none\”})”:null,”tags”:[{“__typename”:”InternalTag”,”slug”:”storytype-article”,”title”:”Article”,”type”:”article”},{“__typename”:”TeamTag”,”slug”:”teamid-121″,”title”:”New York Mets”,”team”:{“__ref”:”Team:121″},”type”:”team”},{“__typename”:”TaxonomyTag”,”slug”:”apple-news”,”title”:”Apple News”,”type”:”taxonomy”},{“__typename”:”ContributorTag”,”slug”:”anthony-dicomo”,”title”:”Anthony DiComo”,”type”:”contributor”},{“__typename”:”GameTag”,”slug”:”gamepk-716615″,”title”:”2023/09/12 ari@nym”,”type”:”game”}],”type”:”story”,”thumbnail”:”https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/{formatInstructions}/mlb/uguhxujilqik5nsorzar”,”title”:”David Stearns to be hired as Mets president of baseball operations”}},”Team:121″:{“__typename”:”Team”,”id”:121}}}
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