The Mets need a head of baseball operations, but what exactly do they want?
Nearly two weeks into the search for Sandy Alderson’s replacement, club officials still seem uncertain, according to industry sources, about what they want in a perspective candidate.
There is the clash between old-school and new-school ideas, but also disagreement on the organizational structure. That is, should the Mets hire a president of baseball operations, with a general manager beneath that person or just one head of baseball operations who can assume whatever title, without another hire?
At this point, according to a source with knowledge of the situation, the Mets are leaning toward hiring just one person who would oversee the entire baseball operations department, but team officials have fluctuated on the matter over the past two weeks.