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<\/p>\nThe Mets\u2019 disastrous season has apparently reached a tipping point. The team announced this morning that manager Carlos Mendoza has been fired. He\u2019ll be replaced by former Padres skipper Andy Green, who had been working with the Mets in a player development role. Green will be the interim manager for the remainder of the season, per the Mets.<\/p>\n
\u201cCarlos has led the organization with passion and grace and is beloved by everyone who works with him on a daily basis,\u201d president of baseball operations David Stearns said in a press release announcing the change. \u201cCarlos\u2019 impact on our players, staff, and culture over the last three seasons has been transformative. Unfortunately, we know we are falling short and change is necessary to move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Mendoza, 46, was in his third season as the skipper in Queens. He led the Mets to an 89-73 record and an NLCS berth against the Dodgers as a rookie skipper back in 2024, but the Mets missed the postseason after an epic second-half collapse in 2025.<\/p>\n
The 2026 season, obviously, has been an abject nightmare. The Mets entered the season with the game\u2019s second-largest CBT payroll and the largest actual cash payroll in the sport but have flopped with a 34-47 record that\u2019s left them buried in the NL East cellar and 9.5 games back in the Wild Card chase. The Giants and Rockies are the only clubs in the National League with a worse record.<\/p>\n
Stearns gave Mendoza several votes of confidence early in the season. Seven weeks ago, Stearns publicly stated<\/a> that the Mets \u201cdon\u2019t view this as a managerial problem\u201d and emphasized that the organization had no intention of making a change. The team followed that with a more encouraging 16-12 showing in the month of May (after a 7-19 April), but they\u2019ve gone 8-14 this month, including six straight losses to drop them to a season-worst 13 games under .500.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to express my deepest gratitude to Carlos Mendoza for his leadership and unwavering commitment,\u201d owner Steve Cohen said in his own statement. \u201cHe represented this organization with integrity and dedication throughout, and I wish him and his family all the best. Our commitment to bringing our fans a championship-caliber team has not changed. There is no sugar coating it: this season has been a disappointment and our fans deserve better than what we\u2019ve delivered.\u201d<\/p>\n Mendoza had a 13-year minor league career as an infielder before joining the Yankees organization as a minor league coach in 2009. He coached and managed throughout various levels of the Yankees\u2019 system before joining the major league staff in 2018. The Yankees promoted him to bench coach in 2019 \u2014 a role he held until being hired as the Mets\u2019 skipper in the 2023-24 offseason.<\/p>\n The nightmare 2026 campaign certainly can\u2019t be attributed to Mendoza alone. He\u2019s obviously an influential voice within the organization and tasked with day-to-day oversight of the clubhouse, coaching staff and lineup, but Mendoza didn\u2019t put together this roster, nor can he alone keep his players healthy. That\u2019s not to say he\u2019s without partial blame for the season at hand, but he\u2019s one of several culprits in what Stearns, Cohen and other key Mets officials would surely concede is an organization-wide failure. Every manager signs his contract knowing it\u2019ll more than likely end with his firing, however. Such is the life of a big league skipper.<\/p>\n Stearns and the rest of the Mets\u2019 front office dramatically overhauled the roster in the offseason, allowing stalwarts Pete Alonso<\/a> and Edwin Diaz<\/a> to depart as free agents and trading Brandon Nimmo<\/a> to the Rangers in a deal that netted Marcus Semien<\/a>. Jorge Polanco<\/a>, Bo Bichette<\/a>, Devin Williams<\/a> and Luke Weaver<\/a> were all brought in on short-term free agent deals \u2014 Bichette with a massive $42MM annual salary. Freddy Peralta<\/a> was acquired from the Brewers in exchange for a pair of top prospects (Brandon Sproat<\/a>, Jett Williams<\/a>). Luis Robert Jr.<\/a> was acquired to play center field.<\/p>\n Weaver has pitched well this season. Williams and Bichette, after awful starts, have begun to look more like their typical selves. Bichette is hitting .312\/.349\/.546 across his past 152 plate appearances. Williams has a 2.33 ERA and 35% strikeout rate across his past 19 1\/3 innings. Those rebounds fall under the \u201ctoo little, too late\u201d umbrella, however, and the rest of the team\u2019s moves simply haven\u2019t worked out. Semien has been one of the game\u2019s least-productive hitters and recently landed on the injured list. Robert, unsurprisingly, has played in only 24 games and is on the 60-day injured list. Polanco has been on the field even less (14 games). Peralta has pitched decently for much of the season but was shy of his previous standards even before being shelled for 10 runs by the Phillies last week, ballooning his ERA to the upper 4.00s in the process.<\/p>\n On top of those injuries and poor performances from newcomers, the team\u2019s holdovers haven\u2019t held up their end of the bargain. Francisco Lindor<\/a> has played in only 25 games due to a calf strain that shelved him more than six weeks. He hasn\u2019t hit when healthy, perhaps in part due to a hamate fracture suffered during spring training. Clay Holmes<\/a> was great for nine starts before a comebacker struck him in the leg and fractured his fibula. He\u2019s been out since mid-May. Juan Soto<\/a> missed a few weeks with a calf strain and has been hobbled recently by back pain. Nolan McLean<\/a> has been more good than great. Brett Baty<\/a> has taken a step back after last year\u2019s breakout. New York has gotten decent showings from rookie outfielders Carson Benge<\/a> and A.J. Ewing<\/a>, but the roster as a whole has simply fallen miles shy of expectations.<\/p>\n As is often the case, the manager will be the first to pay the price for the top-down failure the Mets have experienced this season (and, really, dating back to last July or so). Failures of this magnitude often serve as a portent for baseball operations changes, but it\u2019s common for front offices to get a bit more leash. Cohen hasn\u2019t signaled that a front office shuffle is a consideration. Stearns & Co. have already taken some action, trading lefty David Peterson \u2014 another typically steady veteran who\u2019d struggled considerably this season \u2014 to the Cubs earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n Stearns and Green will both speak with the media later this afternoon \u2014 the former at 3pm ET and the latter at 4:15pm ET.<\/p>\n