If you ask any Mets fan about how they’re feeling heading into 2021, you’re probably going to hear something that you don’t usually hear from that particular crowd: Feelings of optimism and excitement. This is after Fred Wilpon and the Wilpon family finally sold the team to Steve Cohen, who immediately became the richest owner in all of Major League Baseball. The team also found themselves a new General Manager, who almost immediately and suddenly became their former General Manager after it was revealed that he was an extremely creepy individual.
Jared Porter’s firing happened almost immediately after he helped swing one of the biggest trades of the offseason by acquiring Francisco Lindor and Carlos Carrasco from Cleveland in exchange for Amed Rosario, Andres Gimenez, Josh Wolf, and Isaiah Greene.