The sordid Jared Porter story won’t end with the Mets’ expeditious dismissal of him as general manager. An industry source told The Post that Porter’s wrongdoings while with the Cubs, as well as the actions of a second Cubs employee reportedly aware of Porter’s transgressions, will be the subject of a Major League Baseball investigation.

Porter faces the prospect of a suspension from the industry, not that anyone figures to be in a hurry to hire him.

Mets owner Steve Cohen announced Tuesday morning on Twitter that he had fired Porter, 41, whom the Mets had just hired on Dec. 12, in the wake of a bombshell ESPN report that Porter had sent repeated, unsolicited, graphic text messages to a female journalist in 2016. At the time, Porter worked for the Cubs as their director of professional scouting.

As per the ESPN story, when the reporter (a citizen of another country) eventually alerted her bosses, they referred her to a lawyer and “connected her with a Cubs employee from her home country.” The reporter and Cubs employee, unnamed in the report, met in Chicago during the 2016 postseason (when the Cubs ultimately won the World Series), at which point the team employee expressed Porter’s interest in apologizing to the reporter in person, an offer the reporter declined. The Cubs employee, the journalist told ESPN, “encouraged her to use the situation to her advantage” and “pressed her numerous times on whether she planned to file a lawsuit against Porter.” 

When the reporter saw the Cubs employee again in 2017, by which time Porter had moved onto the Diamondbacks, she told him that she was still considering filing a lawsuit against Porter. The Cubs employee “became angry,” the reporter said, and while the employee, who has left the Cubs, denied being angry to ESPN, he acknowledged being aware of Porter’s behavior.

The Cubs released a statement on Tuesday, saying, “This story came to our attention last night and we are not aware of this incident ever being reported to the organization. Had we been notified, we would have taken swift action as the alleged abhorrent behavior is in violation of our code of conduct. While these two individuals are no longer with the organization, we take issues of sexual harassment seriously and plan to investigate the matter.”

MLB possesses wide latitude to discipline team employees. In January 2020, commissioner Rob Manfred suspended Astros president of baseball operations Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch for a full season, and later did the same to Red Sox manager Alex Cora, for their involvement in the 2017-18 Astros sign-stealing scandal. At the same time, Manfred suspended former Astros assistant general manager Brandon Taubman for the 2020 season as punishment for an expletive-filled tirade during the 2019 postseason that targeted a female reporter.

Theo Epstein, who ran the Cubs’ baseball operations in 2016, just recently joined MLB as a consultant after stepping down from the Cubs job. His longtime deputy Jed Hoyer, the Cubs’ GM in 2016, received a promotion to Epstein’s old perch.