The New York Mets are moving bench coach Andy Green back into the front office at season's end and hired five-time All-Star J.D. Martinez as special adviser to baseball operations. The moves, announced mid-September, come as president of baseball operations David Stearns reshapes the decision-making layer beneath GM Chris Young after the club fell short of October.
Green, 54, served one season as bench coach under manager Carlos Mendoza but will return to an advisory role in player development and analytics, the area he occupied before taking the field job last winter. Martinez, 37, retired in August after 14 big-league seasons and 282 career home runs. His title mirrors the special-adviser roles the Mets gave Dontrelle Willis and José Reyes earlier this year, neither of whom draws a coaching salary against the competitive balance tax.
The restructure matters because it tells you how Stearns builds. He inherited a $332MM payroll and a coaching staff assembled under prior regimes, then spent his first season watching which voices Mendoza leaned on and which systems needed rewiring. Green's return to the front office creates a bench-coach vacancy Stearns will now fill with his own selection, likely someone with infield-defense expertise or pitch-shaping credibility given the Mets' middle-infield questions and rotation age curve. Martinez, meanwhile, gives the organization a recently retired right-handed hitter who can speak to young bats like Brett Baty and Mark Vientos in language they heard six months ago in opposing dugouts, not six years ago on a minor-league complex. It's a cheaper, more flexible build than adding another full-time hitting coach, and it keeps the advisory budget off the tax line.
The timing also signals Stearns is preparing for a winter of roster churn. The Mets hold $143MM in commitments for 2025 before arbitration, with Pete Alonso, Sean Manaea, and Luis Severino all hitting free agency. If Alonso walks, the organization will need someone who can help younger hitters process the attention and lineup protection that disappears when a 40-homer bat leaves. Martinez spent the back half of his career doing exactly that in Boston, Los Angeles, and New York, often as the veterans' committee of one in a rebuilding room. His hiring suggests Stearns expects the clubhouse to skew younger next spring, not older.
Watch for the Mets to name Green's replacement by the end of the World Series, likely from outside the organization or from a rival's bench. Martinez will attend the Arizona Fall League in October, per people familiar, where the Mets are sending seven prospects. If Alonso signs elsewhere before Thanksgiving, expect Martinez's role to expand into spring training, working daily with Vientos and any first-base target the front office acquires.
Stearns has now moved or hired 11 people in baseball operations since taking over in October 2023, more than half the decision-making staff, without a single leak about friction or philosophy. The silence is the strategy.
The takeaway
Green's front-office return opens a bench-coach slot Stearns will fill with his own hire; Martinez keeps advisory spend off the tax.
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