Jared Porter owns four championship rings from his 17 seasons as a baseball executive. The Mets, who introduced Porter as their new general manager on Monday, have won two rings in their 59 seasons. Porter keeps his rings locked away, he said, and never wears them. But the lessons he learned in winning them could help the Mets get their third.
Early in his career, as an assistant in player development for the Boston Red Sox, Porter sat in a suite with Theo Epstein, the team’s architect. This was 2007, and the Red Sox were on their way to their second title in four years.