Andy Green Keeps Winning With the Mets. He Also Keeps Saying He Doesn't Want the Job.

The New York Mets are 69-81, 12 games under .500, with a run differential of minus-35, and most sportsbooks price them at 500-1 or longer to win the World Series. That is the season. It is not, however, the most interesting thing happening around this team right now.

Over the past week, the Mets went 4-3. They swept the Marlins in Miami, survived a 15-14 absurdity in which they blew an eight-run lead (Andy Green's own postgame summary to The Athletic: "It's as crazy a game as you will see"), then split a weekend set with the Yankees — including a 12-2 blowout at Yankee Stadium — before dropping a 2-1 decision to Baltimore at Citi Field on Monday. Their win percentage across the last 10 games sits at .600, a tick well above their season mark of .460.

The man getting that out of them may not be doing the job next year.

The manager who won't campaign

Green took over for Carlos Mendoza and has drawn what Yahoo Sports described as a "groundswell of enthusiasm" to keep the job permanently. He has consistently said he intends to return to the front office, and The Athletic framed the reasoning plainly: he's prioritizing family over being a full-time skipper. Team president David Stearns has already addressed the coming offseason, confirming a managerial search is on tap alongside the possibility of adding a general manager.

That search will be loud. Sportsnaut cited an MLB insider arguing that Carlos Beltran must be Stearns' first call when the process begins next month. Whether or not that happens, the Mets are heading into an offseason where the on-field product and the organizational chart are moving in opposite directions — the interim guy is squeezing results out of a depleted roster while the guy above him hunts for someone else.

What the roster actually looks like

The recent numbers explain why the wins feel more like noise than signal. Over the last 10 games the Mets have an .833 OPS, a .465 slugging percentage and 0.600 win rate — the offense has been genuinely good. But the pitching staff has posted a 5.30 ERA over that same window with a 1.318 WHIP, and the last five games show a 5.40 ERA and 1.458 WHIP. The bullpen has been a bright spot all season (2.99 ERA, 1.114 WHIP, 9.9 K/9), but the rotation and middle relief have not held up.

The injury list doesn't help. Devin Williams and Cionel Perez are on the 15-day IL; Jorge Polanco, Reed Garrett and Tylor Megill are on the 60-day. Williams is at least reportedly trending toward pitching again before the season ends, and he's praised Kodai Senga's work as the fill-in closer — Senga has seven saves while posting a 7.02 ERA in a hybrid role, a reminder that the ninth inning has been patched, not solved.

On the position-player side, the September audition list is muddled. A.J. Ewing has had a solid rookie year (.251/.322/.703, 10 homers, 23 steals), Mark Vientos (.214/.667 OPS) and Brett Baty (.228/.662) have not grabbed hold of anything, and Christopher Morel is hitting .162 with 28 strikeouts in 22 games.

What it means going forward

The Mets have 12 games left, they're out of the race, and their manager is likely leaving on his own terms. That combination makes the final two weeks an evaluation period for players who may or may not be here in 2027, run by a staff that may or may not be here either. The week was the Mets' best baseball in a lost season. The uncomfortable part is that it also clarified the biggest question hanging over the winter: who, exactly, is supposed to get credit for it — and who gets to keep it.