Mets fire GM over harassment THE QUOTE

Jared Porter went from rising star to unemployed — literally overnight.

Just more than a month after joining the Mets as general manager, Porter was fired Tuesday for sending sexually explicit, uninvited text messages and images to a female reporter in 2016 when he was working for the Cubs in their front office.

ESPNreported late Monday that Porter sent dozens of unanswered texts to the woman, including a picture of “an erect, naked penis.” ESPN said it obtained a copy of the text history, and many of the messages and photos he sent were displayed in the report online.

About nine hours later, new Mets owner Steve Cohen posted on Twitter that Porter had been fired.

“We have terminated Jared Porter this morning,” Cohen wrote Tuesday. “In my initial press conference I spoke about the importance of integrity and I meant it. There should be zero tolerance for this type of behavior.”

Approximately 30 minutes after that, the Mets released a statement from team president Sandy Alderson saying the move was effective immediately.

“Jared’s actions, as reflected by events disclosed last night, failed to meet the Mets’ standards for professionalism and personal conduct,” Alderson said.

The Mets hired the 41-yearold Porter last month. He agreed to a four-year contract after spending the last four seasons with the Diamondbacks as senior VP and assistant GM.

It wasn’t immediately clear if the Mets planned to replace Porter with a new GM. Porter reported to Alderson, who’s running baseball operations.

The woman wasn’t identified in the report. ESPN said she recently chose to come forward only on condition of anonymity because she is afraid of backlash in her home country.

ESPN said the woman was a foreign correspondent who had moved to the U.S. to cover Major League Baseball. She met Porter in a Yankee Stadium elevator in June 2016, and she said they spoke briefly about international baseball and exchanged business cards. She told ESPN that was the only time they ever spoke.

“Today we lost a great ballplayer, a great broadcaster and, most importantly, a great person.”

— Dodgers President Stan Kasten on Hall of Fame pitcher Don Sutton, who died Tuesday at age 75 after a long struggle with cancer