Mets fire – New York Mets manager Carlos Mendoza was fired halfway through the season and replaced by Andy Green after a 6-game losing streak left the team 34-47, well off playoff contention. Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns said the organization fell s
A six-game losing streak left no room for patience at Citi Field on Friday, and when the Mets needed to steady themselves, Carlos Mendoza became the answer New York could change.
Halfway through a season that has tilted into the kind of collapse fans rarely forget. Mendoza was fired as manager of the Mets and replaced by Andy Green. The timing mattered: the move came with the Mets sitting at 34-47 at the season’s midpoint. including a sweep by the Cubs in a four-game series and the broader reality that the team is 15 games behind NL East-leading Atlanta and 9½ games back of the NL’s last wild-card berth.
Mets owner Steve Cohen. whose expectations have been public and expensive. said the front office still believes it can deliver more. In a statement, he pointed to the gap between what the Mets promised and what they’ve delivered. “Our commitment to bringing our fans a championship-caliber team has not changed,” Cohen said. “There is no sugar-coating it: This season has been a disappointment and our fans deserve better than what we’ve delivered.”.
At a Citi Field news conference ahead of Friday night’s series opener against the rival Philadelphia Phillies. David Stearns framed the decision as painful but necessary. “Mendy gave everything he had to our organization for the last 2½ years,” Stearns said. “He’s an exceptionally talented leader. He’s a really good baseball man. Above all else, he’s an outstanding person. I enjoyed working with him and I’m going to miss him.”.
Then Stearns placed the responsibility where it landed for a season that has slipped further than anyone planned. “Despite all of our effors, Mendy’s included, we haven’t been able to get this going this year. And I take responsibility for that.”
New York’s frustration isn’t just about games lost—it’s about what the Mets spent and who they’ve tried to keep on the field. New York opened the season with baseball’s highest payroll at $358 million and was projected to pay an additional $124 million in luxury tax. The Mets have also been slowed by injuries to Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, Clay Holmes, Luis Robert Jr. and Jorge Polanco. And on Thursday, New York traded pitcher David Peterson, their longest-tenured player, to the Cubs.
With those pieces moving, the next question isn’t whether the Mets will change—they already have—but how far the retooling goes. New York could pivot to a selloff and retooling for the future.
Stearns also acknowledged just how much of this has happened under Mendoza. who is heading into the final guaranteed season of a three-year contract. Since starting last year 45-24 through June 12, 2025, the Mets are 72-102. That left the team with a 206-199 record under Mendoza. Mendoza joined the Mets after the 2023 season, hired to replace Buck Showalter. Before that, he spent 15 seasons working for the Yankees, including the last four as bench coach.
There were other warning signs earlier that never quite turned into the turnaround the Mets needed. New York had a 12-game losing streak in April, its longest since 2002, and made six errors in the nightcap of Wednesday’s doubleheader loss to the Cubs, the team’s most in a game since 2014.
The roster churn has been just as visible as the on-field misfires. After signing Soto to a record $765 million, 15-year contract ahead of the 2025 season, Stearns made major roster changes last offseason. He allowed Pete Alonso to leave as a free agent and traded Brandon Nimmo. while bringing in Marcus Semien and Bo Bichette.
That separation—between the money and the results—has been hard to ignore in a franchise that has been chasing a World Series title since 1986. Cohen’s expectations were set early. Now, the organization is choosing a new direction at the managers’ level.
One sentence in Stearns’s remarks captured the day-to-day reality of how this rebuild would have to work after the latest reset. “I understand there’s no magic bullet here and there’s no one change that immediately is going to turn this around. ” Stearns said. “This is incremental. this is day to day. this is doing the work every single day to get us back on track.”.
Green, the new interim manager, was already inside the club. A former major league infielder, Andy Green joined the Mets in 2023 as senior vice president of baseball development and was charged with running the farm system. He has been given the title of interim manager for the rest of the season.
Green’s managerial record offers a reminder that his résumé comes with its own history of losing. He managed San Diego to a 274-366 record from 2016-19, finishing with losing records in all four seasons. Stearns said Green will return to a front-office role after this season. and the Mets will conduct a full search for a new manager.
As for Mendoza, this is the third managerial change since the season started—an unsettling turnover wave across the sport. Mendoza becomes the fourth manager since Cohen bought the team from the Wilpon and Katz families after the 2020 season. following Luis Rojas. Showalter and Mendoza. Mendoza is also the third major league manager to lose his job since the season started. joining Boston’s Alex Cora. who was replaced by Chad Tracy. and Philadelphia’s Rob Thomson. who was replaced by Don Mattingly.
Green’s path back to the dugout is brief by design, but it starts on a knife edge. New York now goes forward with a season already slipping away—still chasing the kind of change that can stop a slide, even as the scoreboard keeps telling the same story at the midpoint.
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