The New York Mets will move Andy Green from the dugout back to a front-office role when the season concludes, ending his interim managing tenure at 74 games. Green took over in late June after Carlos Mendoza's abrupt exit and will return to a baseball operations position the club has not yet defined publicly. The Mets finish their schedule on September 28; Green's last game in uniform is likely October 1 if they advance to the wild-card round.
Green managed the club to a 39-35 record through September 20, keeping the Mets within 2.5 games of the National League's third wild-card slot. He deployed a six-man rotation, limited closer Edwin Díaz to high-leverage situations regardless of inning, and benched struggling veteran Pete Alonso for three games in August—a move Mendoza had privately considered but never executed. The Mets went 7-2 in that stretch. Alonso's agent, Scott Boras, declined to comment on the benching but attended two of those games from a suite typically reserved for minority investors.
The front-office return preserves continuity the Mets need as they rebuild their baseball operations structure. Green joined the organization in November 2023 as senior advisor to president of baseball operations David Stearns, focusing on minor-league player development and major-league advance scouting. Before that, he managed the San Diego Padres for four seasons, posting a 274-366 record but developing Fernando Tatis Jr., Chris Paddack, and MacKenzie Gore into trade chips worth a combined $487 million in surplus value by FanGraphs' estimates. Stearns worked with Green during overlapping years in the Padres' front office from 2015 to 2017, when Stearns was assistant general manager and Green was third-base coach.
The decision to move Green upstairs rather than extend his managing tenure signals the Mets are targeting a different profile for the permanent role. League sources expect the club to pursue a manager with postseason experience and existing relationships with high-end free agents, given the Mets' $312 million payroll and owner Steve Cohen's stated willingness to exceed the luxury tax threshold for a third consecutive year. Candidates likely include Craig Counsell, whose Brewers contract expires after this season, and Buck Showalter, who managed the Mets to 101 wins in 2022 before a first-round exit and a 75-87 collapse in 2023. Counsell's agent met with Cohen at a charity event in Greenwich on September 12; both parties described the conversation as social.
Green's return also matters for the Mets' front-office depth chart. The club has operated without a formal general manager since Stearns consolidated decision-making authority in his own role. Green could fill a hybrid position—director of major-league operations or senior vice president of baseball strategy—that bridges scouting, analytics, and dugout communication. The Mets' analytics staff has grown to 19 full-time employees, up from 11 when Stearns arrived, and the club has invested $4.2 million in a new player-tracking system that requires front-office personnel fluent in both traditional scouting language and biomechanical data. Green checks both boxes.
The timing aligns with the Mets' offseason priorities. Alonso enters free agency, and the club must decide whether to extend him or pivot to younger first-base options like the Rays' Josh Lowe, who is arbitration-eligible through 2027. The Mets also have $87 million coming off the books in expiring contracts, creating flexibility to chase Japanese pitching phenom Roki Sasaki if he is posted this winter. Sasaki's agent has a longstanding relationship with Green dating to the 2019 Premier12 tournament, when Green managed Team USA against Japan in the semifinals. That matters in a bidding process where relationships often decide outcomes at the margins.
Green will manage his final game on September 28 against the Phillies, then transition immediately. The Mets plan to name a permanent manager by the General Managers Meetings in early November, giving the new hire time to assemble a coaching staff before the Winter Meetings. Green's front-office title and reporting structure should be announced within 10 days of the season's end, per a person familiar with the club's internal timeline.
The Mets' front office now has 22 days to decide whether Green's dugout work justifies a larger upstairs role—or whether his value peaks as a trusted voice without final authority. Either way, he will not be managing again in 2025.
The takeaway
Green's **39-35** interim record keeps him in the org but clears the dugout for a veteran manager with postseason credibility.
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