NYPD visits Mets about ex-clubhouse manager
Former clubhouse manager Charlie Samuels, left. Credit: Getty / New York Daily News
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - Investigators from the New York City Police Department and Major League Baseball visited the Mets' spring training complex on Wednesday to interview players and staff about former clubhouse manager Charlie Samuels.
Samuels, who was fired by the Mets in November after 27 years with the club, is the subject of an investigation by the Queens District Attorney for alleged links to illegal gambling and using Mets memorabilia for personal gain.
No players are believed to be targets of the investigation.
Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez, who reportedly lived in Samuels' house after his arrest for assaulting his girlfriend's father outside the Citi Field family room last August, was one of the players interviewed on Wednesday.
"They talked to a few players," Rodriguez said. "I wasn't the only one. They asked some random questions about things."
A Mets spokesman said the team had no comment, as did a spokesman for Major League Baseball. A spokesman for the Queens district attorney, whose office is working with the NYPD on the investigation, also declined to comment.
