New York Mets interim general manager Zack Scott, who faces criminal charges for drunk driving in Westchester County, New York, was placed on administrative leave Thursday, the team announced in an official statement from the organization.
The arrest would have occurred at 4:17 am, when a police patrol stopped him after seeing him stumbling and driving erratically in his Toyota. Scott would have refused to take a breathalyzer test and a blood test to determine his degree of intoxication. However, he failed the field sobriety test, for which he was booked and arrested.
Scott was apparently coming from a fundraiser for the founding of the team at the home of Mets owner Steve Cohen in Connecticut, where several of the team’s players were also present.
Club President Sandy Alderson will assume job responsibilities for Scott.
Gabriel Delgado
I started as a rookie on Al Bat in early 2018 and I am going into my third season covering Major League Baseball as a web reporter. I am a fan of the San Francisco Giants, a number one defender of Barry Bonds and a critic of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto and Ronald Acuña are the future of baseball, Mike Trout is overrated, and the Astros deserved to be taken away from the World Series for cheating. Besides baseball, I also enjoy soccer, football, basketball, and just about any other game that includes a ball or a ball. I am also an amateur musician, penniless gamer and very nerdy. Graduated in journalism from the University of Guadalajara, I graduated in 2017. Born in the shrimp capital of the world, Escuinapa, Sinaloa. I lived in Australia for a while; i survived giant spiders, tasmanian devils and fought a kangaroo and didn’t die trying.
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