Since the 2017 season, the Mets have had six managers, highlighted by Carlos Beltran and his few moments at the helm. On the flip side, the Mets have had nine general managers, which includes an astounding five interim GMs. The Mets had a triumvirate of interim general managers in 2018 after Alderson stepped down, and they needed two interims to complete the 2021 season after Jared Porter’s firing and interim man Zack Scott’s DUI arrest.
For a mostly successful decade, the Mets averaged about 1.5 years per general manager, whether full-time or interim, and about two seasons per manager. Regardless of the sport, building a sustained winner while averaging a new brain trust every two years makes the task incredibly difficult, and has hardly ever been accomplished, let alone done so consistently.