Before the Mets began their search for a new general manager after the 2021 season, team president Sandy Alderson — at the time also wearing the GM cap — fired manager Luis Rojas to provide a blank slate for the next front office.

A year earlier, as the Mets scrambled to assemble a front office after Steve Cohen’s purchase of the team, Rojas had been retained as manager even though he wouldn’t be the handpicked choice of the new regime.

Two years earlier, Mickey Callaway was retained as the Mets manager amid a regime change that brought Brodie Van Wagenen into the general manager’s chair. Callaway was fired after Van Wagenen’s first season.

Now the Mets face another crossroads at which the manager wasn’t hired by the person in charge of baseball operations.