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This is what the Mets are

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getting in their new general

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manager Jared Porter who agreed

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to a four year contract to take

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over the baseball operations.

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Someone with a resum- as

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impressive as anyone could have

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in Major League Baseball.

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In the end it's just that

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simple.

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He broke into baseball as an

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intern for the Brewster

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Whitecaps in the Cape Cod

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League.

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And from that moment the people

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who've worked with him for him

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against him predicted this is

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the Canha job he'd eventually

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have.

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He's 41 years old and has spent

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the last four seasons working

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for my Caison at the Arizona

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Diamondbacks.

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He worked for Theo EPSTEIN with

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the Red Sox and Cubs and has two

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World Series rings.

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He worked with Ben Cherington in

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Boston.

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And as I said for my Caison from

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these people.

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Among the most respected in the

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game he has learned how to

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organize a front office

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construct a winning organization

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and find good people.

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He is a superb talent evaluator.

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That's front office talent and

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player talent.

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He's very smart very ambitious.

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He has great people skills.

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Now his boss is Mets President

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Sandy Alderson the godfather of

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the modern major league

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executive.

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Zunino original plan was to hire

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a president of baseball

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operations.

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But with EPSTEIN taking a year

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off at least and not finding

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anyone else that intrigued him

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he shifted to a traditional GM

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role.

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EPSTEIN could still land with

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the Mets in a year but that's

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much less a sure thing.

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With the hiring of Jerry Porter

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the Mets also hired a veteran

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respected baseball man Dave Jass

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to be Lewis rowhouses bench

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coach.

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In short since Steve Cohen

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bought the club the Mets are

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doing precisely what a lot of

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people and a lot of Mets fans

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hoped.

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Building a great organization

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and an organization that's going

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to win and be a powerhouse in

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the National League for years to

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come.