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Jeffrey Scott Wilpon is an American businessman, the COO of the New York Mets baseball team, the executive vice-president of Sterling Equities, and the owner of Overwatch League Esports team the New York Excelsior. He is the son of New York Mets' principal owner Fred Wilpon.

Jeff and other Wilpon family members invested with Bernard Madoff's ponzi scheme that collapsed in 2008.^[1] Unlike many who lost their investments, it was revealed in the Madoff firm's court case, Securities Investor Protection Corp. vs. Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (USBC SDNY No. 08-01789), that the family partnership run by Wilpon made $48 million in their dealings with the firm.^[2]

He is a member of the board of directors for the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington DC.

Criticism

Wilpon has been criticized by some for being too much of a meddler in the baseball operations for the New York Mets. In 2010, Joel Sherman of the New York Post wrote, "Let's give Jeff Wilpon the benefit of the doubt here for a moment. Let's say he is not short-tempered. Tone deaf. A credit seeker. An accountability deflector. A micro-manager. A second-guesser. A less-than-deep thinker. And bad at self-awareness. Fine, he's none of these things. But here is the problem: This is his perception in the industry as the Mets try yet again to fix their baseball operations department."^[3]

Sherman also cited a baseball executive in regular contact with the Mets, who said, "Jeff is the problem with the organization, and he is never going to realize that. He cannot help himself. He has to be involved. He will never hire anyone who will not let him have major input. He will not hire anyone who does not run every personnel decision through him."^[3] An AL executive added, "The only person with a worse reputation than Jeff Wilpon in the game is [Marlins president] David Samson."^[3]

In 2009, Peter Gammons told ESPN Radio that Mets GM Omar Minaya "isn’t the General Manager. Jeff Wilpon is. Omar's the one out there to take the heat."^[4]

In 2003, the team's previous partner, Nelson Doubleday, Jr., told The Star-Ledger: "Mr. Jeff Wilpon has decided that he's going to learn how to run a baseball team and take over at the end of the year… Run for the hills, boys. I think probably all those baseball people will bail... Jeff sits there by himself like he's King Tut waiting for his camel."^[4]

Many commentators on the internet and in broadcast media have referred to Jeff Wilpon as "Fredo" Wilpon, after the ineffectual member of the Corleone family, Fredo Corleone, played by John Cazale in The Godfather and The Godfather Part II.^[5]

In media guides Mr Wilpon stated that he had played in the Montreal Expos system to further his baseball credibility while in fact he was simply signed by the team as a favor to his father and never played professional baseball. Jeff Wilpon attended the University of Miami for one year and was a member of the baseball team for part of one season before he was asked to leave the team by the coaching staff.

In September 2014, Wilpon was named as a defendant in a lawsuit by Leigh Castergine, the first female senior vice president of ticket sales in the history of the Mets. According to the civil complaint filed by Castergine's attorney, Wilpon repeatedly disparaged her for having a child out of wedlock and then terminated her employment when she complained to human resources.^[6]

Personal life

He is married to Valerie (née Goldman) Wilpon. Their son, Bradley Wilpon, was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in 2014, and has played two summers for the Newport Gulls of the NECBL.^[7] Jeff Wilpon is a graduate of Roslyn, New York High School and does not have a college degree.

References

1. ^{{cite news|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/wires/02/04/2010.ap.bbn.koufax.madoff.mets.2nd.ld.writethru.0474/index.html |title=Sandy Koufax among those swindled by Madoff |accessdate=August 13, 2009 |date=February 5, 2009 |work=Sports Illustrated }}{{dead link|date=May 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
2. ^{{cite news | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE59K0W520091021 | title=NY Mets owners made about $48 million in Madoff dealings | accessdate=October 21, 2009 | date=October 21, 2009 | publisher=Reuters | first=Ajay | last=Kamalakaran}}
3. ^¹²{{cite news |url=http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/mets/but_will_baseball_brightest_7PwTaYoBp7ZLhGuwZ4YKbP |title=Mets need GM bailout |last=Sherman |first=Joel |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120224712/http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/mets/but_will_baseball_brightest_7PwTaYoBp7ZLhGuwZ4YKbP |date=September 19, 2010 |newspaper=New York Post |archivedate=November 20, 2010 |accessdate=August 28, 2014}}
4. ^¹{{cite web |url=http://metsblog.com/news/gammons-jeff-wilpon-is-gm-of-the-mets/ |title=Gammons: Jeff Wilpon is GM of the Mets |date=October 15, 2009 |website=MetsBlog |accessdate=August 28, 2014}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2003/05/02/wilpons-are-on-their-own/ |title=WILPONS ARE ON THEIR OWN |date=May 2, 2003 |website=nypost.com |accessdate=October 2, 2017}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.dropbox.com/s/gz75qj3iuhndfz7/LawsuitAgainstMetsDiscrimination.pdf?dl=0 |title=Civil Complaint Against Mets and Jeff Wilpon |accessdate=September 10, 2014}}
7. ^Greenwich Times: "Brunswick graduate Bradley Wilpon drafted by Red Sox, will play at Penn" by David Fierro July 5, 2014
8. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/12/15958222/blizzard-overwatch-league-teams-owners-robert-kraft-jeff-wilpon-esports | title = Blizzard announces first Overwatch League teams and owners, including Robert Kraft and Jeff Wilpon | first = Chaim | last = Gartenberg | date = July 12, 2017 | accessdate = July 12, 2017 | work = The Verge }}
9. ^{{Cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2018/05/09/how-the-wilpons-built-a-winner-outside-the-mets/|title=How the Wilpons built a winner outside the Mets|date=2018-05-09|work=New York Post|access-date=2018-05-09|language=en-US}}