Brodie Van Wagenen was scheduled to talk to Mickey Callaway on Thursday, with the plan to resolve the Mets managing situation no later than Friday, sources told The Post.
The Mets have yet to publicly indicate whether they intend to keep Callaway for the final season of his three-year contract or dismiss him.
Mets officials have met this week to determine how to proceed. Among the issues they have mulled is whether a different support staff could provide help to Callaway in areas of need — such as in-game strategy and being able to better impart organizational messages. Concurrently, the Mets are feeling out a potential field of candidates to gauge seriousness in case they make a change.
The Commissioner’s Office generally frowns on teams making major off-field news and potentially overshadowing playoff games. That would be particularly true about games in the same city, and the Yankees open their Division Series against the Twins Friday night in the Bronx. In addition, the Rays-Astros Division Series begins at 2:05 p.m. Friday and MLB would prefer that even the start of that series not be cannibalized by news from a team.