UPDATE (Thursday, 1:16 p.m.): Carlos Beltran is out as Mets manager. Read more about that here.

A Twitter account claiming to belong to the niece of Carlos Beltran tweeted that the Mets manager is stepping down from his position on Wednesday afternoon.

The account has since gone private, but screenshots are abound on Twitter, including by former pitcher turned Barstool Sports baseball writer Dallas Braden.

“My Tio Carlos is stepping down as Mets manager,” the tweet read.

Context:



This same account also broke the news of Beltrans hiring days before anyone else had it...



Proceed https://t.co/ioSOWLYHHf — Dallas Braden (@DALLASBRADEN209) January 15, 2020

Braden claims the same account broke the news that Beltran was going to be the Mets manager days before it was announced. Screenshots of those tweets can be found in this Barstool Sports article, which shows three tweets saying Beltran was named Mets manager on October 29, three days before it was official on November 1.

Beltran was the only player named in MLB Commissioner Rob Manfried’s report on the Houston Astros cheating scandal during their 2017 World Series championship run.

Could this be the Mets’ solution to the controversy? It would match up with how the Red Sox dealt with manager Alex Cora, where both sides “parted ways" on Tuesday.

It does go in line with earlier reports from ESPN’s Buster Olney of the Mets “wavering” on Beltran.

ON ESPN just now -- @Buster_ESPN just said the #Mets are "wavering" on Beltran. — Chris Carlin (@ChrisCarlin) January 15, 2020

Either way, SNY’s Andy Martino reports that news on Beltran “one way or another” could come on Wednesday.

We could get news on Beltran one way or another today. — Andy Martino (@martinonyc) January 15, 2020

For any additional context on the Twitter account allegedly belonging to Beltran’s niece, there are screenshots of tweets from that account trashing ex-Yankee Mark Teixeira, who said the Mets “have to fire” Beltran in an appearance on ESPN’s “Get Up” on Wednesday morning.

From an account purporting to be Carlos Beltran's niece? Um...? pic.twitter.com/Ir8L1QnvUP — Adam Weinrib (@AdamWeinrib) January 15, 2020

“I don’t think the Mets have a choice, either. They have to fire Carlos Beltran,” Teixeira said on ESPN’s “Get Up!” on Wednesday, via the NY Post. “The only reason Beltran wasn’t punished as a bigger part of this was because of that immunity … it’s really a loophole for Carlos Beltran because he retired immediately after that World Series.”

“Now this is a guy who, him and Alex Cora were the main culprits. Alex Cora got fired on the spot by the Boston Red Sox,” Teixeira said. “The New York Mets are in an impossible situation. There’s no way Carlos Beltran – especially in the pressure cooker of New York – there’s no way he can be the manager of the Mets.

“So I think it’s a tough spot for (general manager) Brodie Van Wagenen and the Mets front office that, here we spent all this time trying to find our guy, a really great baseball mind, and Beltran is that. He’s also a guy who cheated in the worst possible way during a World Series run. You cannot have that guy lead your team. The New York papers … will eat up Carlos Beltran every single day until he’s fired.”

The account also claimed that Mets ownership promised they were going to offer free agent third baseman Anthony Rendon “big $$$$."

Rendon ended up signing a seven-year, $245 million contract with the Los Angeles Angels.

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