Former Padres manager inherits the Mets mess after Carlos Mendoza firing

Mets fans should probably feel satisfied that the Carlos Mendoza experiment is over. They fired Carlos Mendoza on Friday, June 26, after a brutal start. The Mets are 34-47, currently on a six-game losing streak and going through the kind of season fans from the outside would point and laugh at. Andy Green, the former Padres manager and Mets current Senior Vice President for Player Development, is taking over as interim manager for the rest of the season.

Remember that guy? Green is walking into a Mets disaster that looks nothing like the one he had in San Diego. With the Padres, he managed the hard part of the rebuild. With the Mets, he is being asked to clean up the expensive part of a collapse. Two very different jobs.

Green managed the Padres from 2016 until September 2019, which means he put plenty of losses on his resume. His final record in San Diego was 274-366. It looks ugly, and that shouldn’t be a surprise. It came during a stretch when the Padres were still trying to turn prospects and front-office patience into something that resembled a baseball team.

By 2019, the patience had run out. Manny Machado came to town. Eric Hosmer was already there. Fernando Tatis Jr. had arrived and immediately looked like the future. And the Padres needed to show that they were turning the page. 

Now, he inherits another odd situation, one that doesn’t come with runway at all.

Andy Green’s interim Mets role comes with pressure his Padres teams never had

The Mets won’t be asking Green to babysit a rebuilding club. If anything they’re just asking him to keep the kitchen from burning down. Losing with a rebuilding team is annoying, but expected. Losing with a massive payroll is a civic event. 

Oftentimes, Carlos Mendoza sounded like he was in over his head. We heard the whispers of the political drama in the dugout. Even if they did try to shut them down, the flipping of talent in the offseason all but confirmed there was a divide. Still, the team added a haul of talent that should have led to a team that should’ve been competitive in the NL East. Jorge Polanco, Bo Bichette, Luis Robert Jr., Freddy Peralta, Devin Williams, Luke Weaver, and Marcus Semien. Adding that to a roster that already has Juan Soto and Francisco Lindor on it, somebody had to pay the price for that unit falling apart.

Green was a bench coach with the Chicago Cubs from 2020-2023. Now he gets his first chance to manage since his time with San Diego. And he gets to find out whether he can do more than guide a rebuild. He has a chance to steady a room that was supposed to be too talented for this outcome.

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