Former Mets GM Jared Porter acknowledged sending an inappropriate text message to a reporter while he was a Cubs executive in 2016, which led to his firing in New York in 2021.

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.

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.

In his first public comments in nearly four years, Jared Porter acknowledged sending the inappropriate messages that cost him his job as Mets general manager, said he holds no ill will toward the team and painted a picture of a changed man.