Former Mets GM Jared Porter acknowledged sending an inappropriate text message to a reporter while he was a Cubs executive in 2016, which led to his firing in New York in 2021.

Zoom call shows new New York Mets general manager Jared Porter. Fired New York Mets general manager Jared Porter was suspended by Major League Baseball through at least the end of the 2022 regular season following an investigation that began after a report that he sent sexually explicit text messages and images to a female reporter in 2016 while he was working for the Chicago Cubs.

Jared Porter acknowledged he sent an inappropriate text message to a reporter while he was a Chicago Cubs executive in 2016, which led to the New York Mets firing him as general manager in 2021 after