MLBPA, Boras concerned about Mets potentially hiring agent Van Wagenen as GM

The New York Mets are inching closer to appointing Brodie Van Wagenen as their new head of baseball operations, but the Major League Baseball Players' Association has some concerns about Van Wagenen's history as a player agent.

"I won't tell you how many calls or how many texts I have gotten," union head Tony Clark said prior to Game 3 of the World Series, according to Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times. "I will simply suggest to you that our membership is paying attention."

On Friday, a report surfaced suggesting that the Mets had decided upon Van Wagenen as their future general manager. The 44-year-old currently serves as a player agent, acting as the co-head of the baseball division of CAA Sports. Among the clients CAA represents are Mets ace Jacob deGrom, who has one year of arbitration remaining.

"(The players) understand the opportunities that exist for representatives to make the decisions that they are going to make," Clark continued. "To the extent that possibility exists, I would be confident in suggesting that the understanding and appreciation for confidential information remains so."

Scott Boras, superstar baseball agent and father of Milwaukee Brewers prospect Trent, also weighed in, expressing his own concerns from the standpoint of how it may be a conflict of interest.

"If someone came to my son and made a commitment to him, and said I want to care about your interests, and then he took all that information that my son had given him over time, and then he went to work for a team and used that to negotiate against me, I would be very upset," Boras told Shaikin.

While nothing is official, Van Wagenen is believed to be the sole finalist vying for the Mets' GM job out of a group that once reportedly included former Brewers GM Doug Melvin and current Tampa Bay Rays vice president of baseball operations Chaim Bloom.