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The Mets fired Carlos Beltran on Thursday, just 77 days after hiring him as their new manager, 73 days after introducing him at a Citi Field news conference and, even more to the point, three days after Rob Manfred rocked the baseball world with a report on illegal sign-stealing by the Astros.
Plenty of questions emerged from this whip-quick chain of events that left Beltran as the third skipper let go in four days as a result of this scandal. Here are some answers:
Q: So what’s the deal? Did the Mets and Carlos Beltran truly “mutually part ways,” as the Mets worded it in their press release?