On the “Baseball Isn’t Boring” podcast episode released Friday, Porter acknowledged sending inappropriate text messages to a female reporter, which led to his firing just 37 days after being hired as the Mets’ GM. “It was an inappropriate relationship for a lot of reasons,” Porter said, via Apple Podcasts.

Former New York Mets general manager Jared Porter is discussing the circumstances that led him to part ways with the franchise.

The Mets fired Porter within nine hours of an ESPN report that revealed he had sent inappropriate text messages to a female journalist.

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.

Porter broke his nearly four-year silence this weekend, speaking with Rob Bradford on the “Baseball isn’t Boring” podcast. Now 45, the former executive owned up to his unethical behavior in 2016 when he pursued a foreign correspondent while working for the Chicago Cubs.

The former general manager was fired by the Mets in 2021 after an ESPN report detailing that he sent sexually explicit, uninvited text messages and images to a female reporter.

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