{"id":109701,"date":"2026-01-23T12:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/109701\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:53:12","slug":"inside-the-mets-carlos-beltran-dynamic-with-manager-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/109701\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Mets-Carlos Beltran dynamic, with manager question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Beltr\u00e1n was something of a baseball pariah when Steve Cohen completed his purchase of the Mets following the 2020 season.<\/p>\n<p>The former All-Star outfielder had been named a year earlier as a significant contributor, if not the ringleader, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/21\/sports\/carlos-beltran-gets-hall-of-fame-nod-despite-past-controversies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the sign-stealing scheme<\/a> that helped the Astros win their first World Series. Under pressure amid the fallout, Beltr\u00e1n resigned as Mets manager only 77 days after he was hired.<\/p>\n<p>Beltr\u00e1n\u2019s Hall of Fame candidacy, despite a career in which he had produced numbers worthy of such consideration, was in jeopardy. His future in baseball was also in question.<\/p>\n<p>Two seasons would pass after Cohen\u2019s arrival before Beltr\u00e1n, who had a relationship with general manager Billy Eppler from their time with the Yankees, was given a special assistant\u2019s job with the Mets. Beltr\u00e1n wasn\u2019t very visible initially, but over the past two seasons has become more of a presence around the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Beltr\u00e1n was something of a baseball pariah when Steve Cohen completed his purchase of the Mets following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41542,30159,34723,29977,20390,35580,20,9,11,320,10,4780,319,428],"class_list":["post-109701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-carlos-beltran","tag-francisco-lindor","tag-freddy-peralta","tag-inside-the-mets","tag-juan-soto","tag-mark-vientos","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}