Although the lockout in Major League Baseball continues deep into the low season, the Mets have been busy.

On Thursday, the Mets pulled off a uncommon coup by hiring Eric Chavez, a former slugger and star infielder, as their hitting coach, simply a few weeks after the Yankees had named him as their assistant hitting coach. The transfer, together with the remainder of Mets Manager Buck Showalter’s teaching employees, has but to be introduced by the crew.

The Yankees had excessive hopes for Chavez, a six-time Gold Glove third baseman who smashed 260 house runs over 17 seasons, together with 13 seasons with the Oakland Athletics and two in the Bronx. The crew introduced Chavez’s hiring late final month as a part of a revamped teaching employees beneath Yankees Manager Aaron Boone.

Chavez, 44, and Casey Dykes have been anticipated to function assistants to the Yankees’ new hitting coach, Dillon Lawson, who had been promoted from the crew’s minor league system. Boone had stated that Chavez “blew him away” in interviews and that he valued Chavez’s perspective on the recreation and his open thoughts.

“I view him a little as a Swiss Army” knife, Boone stated then. “He’s going to have a lot of different responsibilities. His role is going to evolve as he allows it to.”

But weeks later, the Mets lured Chavez, who’s shut with the crew’s new general manager, Billy Eppler. After his enjoying days, Chavez labored as a particular assistant beneath Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman and Eppler, who was an assistant normal supervisor with the membership. When Eppler turned the Los Angeles Angels’ normal supervisor, he took Chavez with him as a particular assistant.

Zack Scott Acquitted

Zack Scott, previously the appearing normal supervisor of the Mets, was acquitted of legal drunken-driving prices on Thursday in a courtroom in White Plains, N.Y.

At the time of Scott’s arrest, the police said they found him asleep at the wheel of a automotive in White Plains on Aug. 31 at 4:17 a.m. He was charged with driving whereas intoxicated. Earlier, Scott had been at the Greenwich, Conn., house of the Mets proprietor Steven A. Cohen, who was internet hosting a fund-raiser for the crew’s charity. Players and crew officers have been in attendance.

The occasion was completed by 9 p.m. While Scott pleaded not responsible, the Mets positioned him on administrative go away after studying of the arrest. In November, they dismissed him regardless that Sandy Alderson, the crew’s president, had recommended Scott for the job he had completed with the crew.

In explaining the dismissal, Alderson cited the “general uncertainty around the situation” as a motive for the determination.

Scott, 44, had been promoted to acting general manager when the Mets fired the team’s full-time general manager, Jared Porter, final January after the revelation of Porter’s lewd harassment of a feminine reporter 4 and a half years earlier whereas he was with the Chicago Cubs. Porter’s firing got here simply a month after he was employed away from the Arizona Diamondbacks.

While Scott was acquitted of the extra severe drunken-driving prices, he was discovered responsible on Thursday of two lesser transgressions: site visitors violations that got here with fines.

“I am thankful for today’s verdict,” Scott stated in an emailed assertion. “Nonetheless, I regret choices I made on Aug. 31, resulting in circumstances that led to my arrest.”

He added later: “Professionally, I’m grateful to Sandy Alderson for the opportunity to lead baseball operations for the Mets and wish my former teammates nothing but the best going forward. I believe this humbling experience will make me a better husband, father, son, friend and leader, and I look forward to what the future holds.”