Mets hire David Stearns

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

[Edgy MD]

That's something of an odd way of framing it. I tend to think that Sandy, without having the "of Baseball Operations" in the title, was kinda the PoBO nonetheless.



But welcome to David Stoins!

[TransMonk]

I endorse this move.

[MFS62]

From everything I've read about him, this seems to be a good move.



Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

I hope this Stearns turns out to be a Good Dude for the Mets.

[kcmets]

I wanted to be the first to say STOINS, but early bird gets the worm.

[Lefty Specialist]

Thought they couldn't hire him until the off-season?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Thought they couldn't hire him until the off-season?

Stearns' Brewers contract permitted him to negotiate with other teams right after the trading deadline. I assume, though, that his new Mets contract doesn't take effect until after the end of the Brewers 2023 season, at the earliest.

[ashie62]

Sandy Anderson role to me



Good luck with the rebuild

[metirish]

I'm actually excited

[Edgy MD]

Ten Facts:



1. Born in Manhattan in 1985, just around the time John Stearns was hitting the end of his career after a second elbow injury in winter ball.



2. Studied PoliSci at Harvard. Did sports reporting for The Crimson and interned with The Pittsburgh Pirates.



3. Upon graduation, came to work for the Mets in their baseball operations department.



4. Jumped to the MLB central office in 2008, working in labor relations and helping hammer out the CBA.



5. In 2011, became co-director of player operations for the then-Cleveland Indians, specializing in contracts.



6. Became GM of the Brewers in 2015 when he was just 30 years old.



7. Became a PoBO four years later.



8. Made playoffs four straight seasons during his GM/PoBO tenure.



9. Stepped down after disappointing 2022 to play out his contract as a consultant.



10. Now 38, he still looks like a kid — possibly 25 years old in some shots. Any signs of aging can be attributed to his deep regret trading Josh Hader, but waddayagonnado?





The interesting part to me is that, when a new boss comes in, he has no personal need to redeem past transactions, so any hint of loyalties start falling by the wayside. All players are suddely available.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm curious about what the division of duties is. What does the POBO do that the GM doesn't do? And vice versa?



Negotiate trades?



Negotiate contacts?



Hire/fire front office personnel?



The coaching staff?



The farm system?



The draft?



Etc?



Etc?

[Frayed Knot]

In general, the GM's main area is contract negotiations while the PoBO oversees that plus most of the other functions you mention.





And, yeah, I'm disappointed that STOINS!! wasn't the subject line (although I probably wouldn't have thought to do it either).

[metirish]

10M a year according to Bil Madden ( I know ) ,that would be on par with the guy in LA

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[Benjamin Grimm]

It's hard to believe he was born in 1985. When I hear that someone was a Mets fan as a kid, I tend to assume that they would have been rooting for Seaver, Koosman, Jones, and Agee, but Stearns is too young to even remember Hernandez, Carter, Strawberry, and Mookie. His youth would have been the Piazza and Alfonzo years.

[G-Fafif]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: It's hard to believe he was born in 1985. When I hear that someone was a Mets fan as a kid, I tend to assume that they would have been rooting for Seaver, Koosman, Jones, and Agee, but Stearns is too young to even remember Hernandez, Carter, Strawberry, and Mookie. His youth would have been the Piazza and Alfonzo years.

One of the profiles I read said his first game was won on a Dave Magadan walkoff homer, of which there were two -- I'm assuming it's the one from May 9, 1992, a Saturday afternoon when he was 7, rather than June 2, 1989, a Friday night when he was 4. (I was at both of those.) The upshot was he was happy the Mets won but sad that there wouldn't be any more baseball.

[Edgy MD]

Right, so his fandom is a grade-school origin, rather than a mid-teens launch, so it's more about Chris Donnels and Anthony Young than Piazza and Alfonzo.



Which, you know, I can't not salute.

[kcmets]

Wait, David Stoins isn't the dead former NBA Commish?



I think we've been had...