NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 6: New York Mets Brodie Van Wagenen general manager speaks to Mickey Callaway in the dugout before an MLB baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies on September 6, 2019 at Citi Field in the Queens borough of New York City. Mets won 5-4. (Photo by Paul Bereswill/Getty Images)
Brodie Van Wagenen’s time as New York Mets General Manager was doomed from his first major move.
“We will win now. We will win in the future.” Those were the promising words that Brodie Van Wagenen spewed in his introductory press conference back in October of 2018.