Green didn't ask for this. He was the Mets' Senior Vice President of Player Development, a suit-and-laptop guy, until Carlos Mendoza got fired amid a 34-47 start and the front office handed Green a lineup card instead. First game out, the Mets lost to the Phillies and the losing streak stretched to 7. This was not a soft landing.
But something shifted. The Mets snapped that skid, and lately they've been playing with an edge that wasn't there under Mendoza. Heyman has noticed, and he's been putting the question to Green directly on his podcast all week: is this an audition, or just a placeholder gig before he heads back upstairs?
Mets interim manager Andy Green touches here on “The Show” on whether he could keep the job fulltime (and later expands on it in full interview). Green also hits on positives he sees YouTube: https://t.co/l46WAsuGDX Apple: https://t.co/wfm8ryWSWb Spotify: https://t.co/WO6Rb3KNLj https://t.co/UlEYnmD4df
Green has some history worth remembering here. He managed the Padres from 2016 to 2019, a rebuild job that never got him a winning record, and he spent 3 seasons as David Ross's bench coach in Chicago before the Mets brought him into their front office in 2024. This is his first time back in a dugout in nearly 7 years, and it's happening under a level of scrutiny San Diego never gave him.
That's what makes the timing interesting. Green took over a team with essentially nothing to lose, no playoff math to sweat, which is often exactly when a young or reinstalled manager gets room to find his voice. Heyman's pod made a point of digging into the transition itself, not just the record.
Joel and I do a deep dive on the struggling Yankees here (are they in trouble?). Interim Mets manager Andy Green talks Mets kids, Soto, his situation (might he stay?) YouTube: https://t.co/l46WAsuGDX Apple: https://t.co/wfm8ryWSWb Spotify: https://t.co/WO6Rb3KNLj https://t.co/IXy5CbutA0
None of this means the Mets have decided anything. Interim tags get shed all the time when a team plays loose baseball down the stretch, and just as often the front office still goes and hires its own guy in the offseason. But every time Green dodges the question instead of shutting it down, it adds a little more heat to a decision that Steve Cohen and David Stearns will eventually have to make.
Interim Mets manager Andy Green talks here about the transition to NY. Green, whose Mets are playing spirited ball now, discusses whether he may end up staying in the job in full pod YouTube: https://t.co/l46WAsuGDX Apple: https://t.co/wfm8ryWSWb Spotify: https://t.co/WO6Rb3KNLj https://t.co/gklW1x0JHG
Worth watching from here: whether the Mets' recent stretch of spirited play is sustainable or just a dead-arm-season mirage, and whether Green starts sounding more decisive about his own future the longer this goes. Heyman clearly isn't letting the question go, and neither, it seems, is Green.