FORT MYERS, Fla. — Billy Eppler is again in baseball.
The previous Mets common supervisor and Yankees government has joined the Brewers as a particular adviser, a supply confirmed, and can work beneath GM Matt Arnold.
SNY first reported the event.
Main League Baseball suspended Eppler all of final season for violating the league’s injured record guidelines, together with “the deliberate fabrication of injuries,” the league mentioned, throughout his time with the Mets.
Eppler had served because the Mets’ common supervisor starting in November 2021 and ending after the 2023 season — overseeing a robust ’22 season, the signings of Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander and the following trades of the star pitchers — and was anticipated to stay with the group beneath new president David Stearns, however he resigned on Oct. 5, 2023, whereas beneath MLB’s investigation.
Now off the league’s Ineligible Checklist, Eppler enters again right into a recreation by which he has spent a long time, together with a protracted tenure with the Yankees.
He rose to director of professional scouting and assistant GM from 2005-15 beneath Brian Cashman.
