Porter broke his nearly four-year silence this weekend, speaking with Rob Bradford on the “Baseball isn’t Boring” podcast. Now 45, the former executive owned up to his unethical behavior in 2016 when he pursued a foreign correspondent while working for the Chicago Cubs.

Jared Porter acknowledged he sent an inappropriate text message to a reporter while he was a Chicago Cubs executive in 2016, which led to the New York Mets firing him as general manager in 2021 after just 38 days.

The Mets fired Porter within nine hours of an ESPN report that revealed he had sent inappropriate text messages to a female journalist.

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.