Andy Green to become full-time manager of the Mets

Green, who took over for Carlos Mendoza in June, signed a three-year contract to become the franchise’s 26th full-time manager

NY Post

The Mets front office has checked a major box off their off-season checklist before it even started.

On Tuesday, the Mets announced they’ve removed the interim tag from Andy Green and named him the 26th full-time manager in club history. Green signed a three-year deal to remain at the helm of the dugout staff. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Green took over as interim manager of the Mets on June 26 after the club got off to a 34-47 start under then-manager Carlos Mendoza. Since that date, the Mets have gone 37-38 under Green while the club has enjoyed the emergence of several young players, including Carson Benge, AJ Ewing, Zac Thornton, and Nate Lavender.

Green, 49, had a brief major league career that included time with the Diamondbacks from 2004–2006 and a brief cameo with the Mets in 2009. He served as manager of the Padres from 2016–2019 and in a coaching capacity with both the Diamondbacks and Cubs.

He was a candidate to become the Mets manager in November 2023, but the front office instead decided to hire Mendoza. Green then joined the front office in their player development department as part of Mets President of Baseball Operations David Stearns’s overhaul of the front office, and served in that capacity until he was asked to take over as manager of the Mets in late June.

For the Mets specifically, this was an easy decision to make considering how well this fragmented roster has performed under Green, his pulse on the room and the dugout, his knowledge of the organization and farm system, and his modernized perspective on the game. Green, however, had maintained his position that he would return to the front office after the 2026 season.

Clearly, Stearns, Steve Cohen, and his colleagues in the front office were able to encourage him to stick around as their manager and continue to progress the major league club in the short and medium term.

The Mets will now be able to proceed into their off-season having cleared a major hurdle from a personnel perspective with Green on board, and maintain the continuity from what can only be described as an encouraging second half for the major league club. Now, instead of spending October in the managerial pool and interviewing candidates, they can invest their time into charting roster improvements ahead of free agency, which will begin after the World Series.