Short-lived Mets GM Jared Porter is owning up to lewd texts that got him fired

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.

Porter had been hired as the GM in December 2020 and lasted in the role for 37 days.

In January 2021, ESPN reported he had sent lewd text messages — as well as a string of 62 unanswered texts — to a female journalist in 2016.

Mets owner Steve Cohen and then-president Sandy Alderson fired Porter, who had not spoken publicly since.

“I put myself in that situation,” Porter said on the “Baseball Isn’t Boring” podcast episode that was released Friday. “I made the decision to send the text messages that I sent, and I certainly shouldn’t have done it.”

Porter called his relationship with the reporter “not appropriate” for “a lot of reasons.” He was Cubs director of professional scouting when he met the reporter — a foreign correspondent who had moved to the United States to cover Major League Baseball and who asked ESPN to remain anonymous — and sent her repeated messages, long after she stopped responding, that culminated with an erect penis.