Fired Mets GM breaks silence on inappropriate text he sent with Cubs
Jared Porter, the former general manager of the New York Mets, has acknowledged that his inappropriate text message contributed to his termination. Porter claims that in 2016, while he was employed for the Chicago Cubs, he sent a reporter a sexually explicit message. He finally lost his job with the Mets as a result of that.
It was an inappropriate relationship for a lot of reasons, you know, both for me personally and also, of course, with the reporter,” Porter said, per the Associated Press. “So I want to be very accountable about that as I talk through it. But, yeah, when the article first came out, you know, it’s crazy, just a tremendous amount of fear, you know, shame. You know, there’s some people I reached out to
Obviously, I talked with my wife, my family, you know, and my co-workers at the time at the Mets about the situation but, yeah, it was obviously a really tough moment but, you know, I — like I said, like, being accountable, like I put myself in that situation. You know, I made the decision to send the text message that I sent, and I certainly shouldn’t have done it.”
Porter served as GM for the Mets for only 38 days, after the story broke about the incident. He was relieved of his duties with the Mets in 2021.
“Look, I was really enjoying my time at the Mets, working with Sandy and Steve and the group they’d put together. You know, they gave me the opportunity to be a general manager, which was an incredible opportunity,” he added.
The Mets moved on from Porter and were able to put a winning club together. New York reached the NLCS just a few years after his firing, in the 2024 season