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In the team's history, the Mets have employed 16 general managers (GMs) (not including interim GMs). [1] The GM controls player transactions, hiring and firing of the coaching staff, and negotiates with players and agents regarding contracts. [2] The longest-tenured GM is Frank Cashen, who held the position for 11 years (1980–1990). [1]
In the history of the Mets, there have been 23 managers that managed a game including four interim managers. Of those managers, only Joe Torre was a player-manager (a manager who also plays for the team); [1] [2] Yogi Berra did play four games while he was a coach for the Mets in 1965.
On September 21, 2015, the Milwaukee Brewers named Stearns their next general manager, succeeding the retiring Doug Melvin, who they announced would remain with the team in an advisory role. [14] At thirty years of age, he became the youngest general manager in MLB, one of the youngest in history, and was one year younger than the Brewers' Ryan ...
This World Series championship by the Mets had a strange twist: Lou Gorman, the general manager of the Red Sox, was vice president, player personnel, of the Mets from 1980 to 1983. Working under Mets' GM Frank Cashen, with whom Gorman served with the Orioles, he helped lay the foundation for the Mets' championship.
Billy Eppler (born September 16, 1975) is an American baseball executive who most recently served as the general manager of the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). In February 2024, Eppler was placed on MLB's ineligible list for the 2024 season due to fabrication of player injuries in violation of league rules during his tenure with the Mets. [1]
Eppler became GM of the Los Angeles Angels from 2015-20, then was fired after five losing seasons. The Mets gave him a four-year contract in November 2021 to become their fifth head of baseball ...
Following his tenure as general manager of the Mets, Cashen continued working with the team in various capacities, including chief operating officer in 1992 and consultant in 1993. [8] In November 1998, the Mets general manager, Steve Phillips, took time off to address a sexual harassment lawsuit and Cashen was named interim GM for a week. [9] [10]
In October 2018, Van Wagenen interviewed to replace Sandy Alderson as the New York Mets' general manager. [13] On October 29, the Mets announced the hiring of Van Wagenen as their general manager. [14] On November 6, 2020, hours after Steve Cohen closed on the Mets purchase, Van Wagenen was fired.