The conversation turned Brodie Van Wagenen from agent to general manager happened over the course of a two-and-a-half-hour breakfast in early October, as Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon gauged whether or not his friend would be interested in running the major league team owned by his father. Wilpon had already spoken to Van Wagenen, the co-head of the baseball division at CAA Sports, earlier in the year to see if he had any recommendations for New York’s vacated GM position. The idea was to find some under-the-radar options. Instead, Wilpon says, he landed on a bigger idea: Offering the job to Van Wagenen himself.
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