The Mets and David Stearns can finally speak with Craig Counsell again.
Less than a week before Counsell’s contract with the Brewers expires, the Mets have received permission from Milwaukee to talk with Counsell about their open manager position, The Post’s Joel Sherman reported Wednesday. SNY first reported the development.
Counsell’s contract with the Brewers is set to expire Oct. 31, and the Mets were initially expected to have to wait until then to speak with Counsell about potentially following Stearns to Queens.
But they can now get a jump start on the interview process to find the manager that will succeed Buck Showalter.
Stearns, who worked with Counsell from 2016-22 as the general manager and then president of baseball operations for the Brewers, said earlier this month he would cast “a wide net” in his manager search.
But his familiarity with Counsell has pointed toward the two potentially reuniting with the Mets, who waited nearly three years to land Stearns after his own contract with the Brewers ran out.
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