SAN ANTONIO David Stearns received plenty of congratulatory me sages for the Mets season including one from the manager he fired. Buck Showalter sent text me sages after the season to Stearns, the Mets president of baseball operations, and first-year manager Erik Swanson Jersey Carlos Mendoza to congratulate them on the teams succe s. Mets manager Buck Showalter in the dugout at Citi Field on Oct. 1, 2023. Jason Szenes The before losing to the Dodgers. It was a great gesture from [Showalter], Stearns told The Post on Wednesday at the GM meetings. Obviously he had a lot to do with moving the organization forward, so it was really nice to hear from him. Explore More Showalter, with Stearns hiring set to be officially announced the following day, was . Showalters three-year contract with the team expired last week. Fred Mcgriff Jersey