There appears to be less hard feelings these days with the New York Mets for former manager Buck Showalter, who was fired last October at the start of David Stearns’ tenure.

Stearns, the longtime MLB manager, was let go by someone he had never met or spoken to in person. The New York Post reported more than a year agoDays before former Mets general manager Billy Eppler resigned amid an MLB investigation.

Despite a history that included Showalter announcing his own fate on the final day of the season, the free-agent agent reached out to Stearns and manager Carlos Mendoza, the Mets’ president of baseball operations, once the season ended.

“It was a great gesture from (Showalter).” Stearns told The Post at GM meetings on Wednesday.. “Obviously he had a lot to do with moving the organization forward, so it was really nice to hear from him.”

Showalter went 176-148 as the Mets’ manager, leading the organization back to the playoffs as a 101-win team for the first time in six years in 2022, and then presiding over a team that didn’t live up to expectations in 2023.

According to The Post, the 68-year-old failed to manage this season and his contract with the Mets expired this week.