Mets fire – The New York Mets have fired manager Carlos Mendoza after a 34-47 season left them buried in the NL East cellar. Andy Green, formerly a Padres skipper and currently in a player development role with the club, will manage as interim manager for the remainder of
When the New York Mets moved on from Carlos Mendoza, it didn’t come with a long fuse or a gradual fade. The team announced the change only minutes after a report that Mendoza had been fired, puncturing what had already felt like a disastrous turn from the start of 2026.
Andy Green, who had been with the club in a player development role and previously led the Padres, will take over as interim manager for the remainder of the season.
In a statement released with the announcement. David Stearns. the Mets president of baseball operations. said Mendoza “has led the organization with passion and grace and is beloved by everyone who works with him on a daily basis.” Stearns added that Mendoza’s “impact on our players. staff. and culture over the last three seasons has been transformative. ” while emphasizing that “we know we are falling short and change is necessary to move forward.”.
Mendoza, 46, was in his third season as the Mets’ manager in Queens. His best run came early in his tenure. when he led the team to an 89-73 record and an NLCS berth against the Dodgers as a rookie skipper in 2024. The path to that success later gave way to a brutal swing in 2025: the Mets missed the postseason after an “epic second-half collapse. ” according to the account of their season decline.
This year’s collapse has been sharper and more immediate. The Mets entered 2026 with the game’s second-largest CBT payroll and the largest actual cash payroll in the sport. yet they are sitting at a 34-47 record. That mark has placed them in the NL East cellar, 9.5 games back in the Wild Card chase. The Giants and Rockies are the only National League clubs with worse records.
Stearns had tried to slow the pressure earlier in the season, offering several votes of confidence. Seven weeks ago. Stearns publicly said the Mets “don’t view this as a managerial problem” and stated the organization had “no intention of making a change.” The team briefly looked like it might be turning a corner: after going 7-19 in April. the Mets improved to a 16-12 record in May.
But the rebound didn’t hold. The Mets went 8-14 this month, including six straight losses, pushing their record to 13 games under .500 and marking another step toward the tipping point that has now forced a decision.
The timing matters. Stearns’ insistence that the organization wouldn’t make a change came less than two months ago. and the Mets’ early-season results offered a small opening for hope. Now the franchise has replaced the manager at a moment when the standings are already hard to climb. with the playoffs slipping farther into the distance.
For players, staff, and the culture Stearns said Mendoza helped shape, the shift is sudden. Mendoza’s firing ends a three-season run that included both a deep postseason push in 2024 and growing collapse afterward—culminating in a 2026 season that has left the Mets fighting just to keep pace in a division where they have fallen to the bottom.
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Fired already? That’s wild.
So they “puncturing” minutes after a report… like who leaked it? Mets gonna blame Mendoza then pretend it’s culture or whatever. Sounds like the payroll stuff is the real issue though.
I don’t get it, 2024 he took them to the NLCS and now suddenly it’s “transformative”?? Maybe the GM just wants a new manager to sell tickets. Andy Green is interim so it’s not even like they’re changing everything, right?
Mets move on from him with no fuse and it’s like… okay, but if the CBT payroll was 2nd largest then why are they still losing? Feels like they fired the wrong guy and kept the same front office people who caused the collapse. Also “beloved by everyone” doesn’t win games, I guess.