The once-proud Daily News is reporting Saturday that the Mets have a deal in place to hire CAA agent Brodie Van Wagenen as their next general manager. An announcement will not be made until MLB lifts its no-major-announcements-during-the-World-Series policy.
I don’t know how to feel about this. On one hand, the Mets went out of the box on this thing (or did they? — more on that in a moment). After years of safe and boring hires, they went out and got someone who could have a very high upside.
