Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Mets GM Jared Porter Fired

Mets GM Jared Porter (Credits to MetsMerizedOnline.com) New Mets ownwr Steve Cohen announced on Twitter this morning that General Manager Jared Porter has been fired for sending explicit photos to a foreign female journalist in 2016. Porter was hired by the Mets on December 13th and his tentune lasted only 37 days. Last night, Mina Kimes and Jeff Passan from ESPN broke the story and found that he sent more than 60 text messages to the journalist and two inappropriate photos. The reporter is no longer in the industry and chose to remain anonymous and spoke with ESPN sporadically and their first encounter in 2017 and decided to come forward in the last few days because she felt unsafe in her own country. Right now, Porter's replacement has not been named yet, but it seems like assistant GM Zach Scott who worked with Porter and under Theo Epstein who was hired on December 23 would make sense as the new GM.

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