MLB has announced today that former New York Mets General Manager Billy Eppler has been placed on the Ineligible List through the 2024 World Series due to a “pattern of conduct” in violating MLB’s rules regarding the injured list, including “the deliberate fabrication of injuries.”
Eppler was the general manager of the Mets from November, 2021, through October 2023. Prior to that, he had been the general manager of the Los Angeles Angels from 2015 through 2020, and was an assistant general manager with the New York Yankees prior to that.
Eppler resigned from his position with the Mets in October, seemingly at least in part due to his being under investigation by MLB for injury list abuse, though the Mets had also just hired David Stearns to be president of baseball operations, so Eppler may not have been long for the Mets anyway.