NEW YORK -- The ultimate futures of both Mets manager Luis Rojas and executive Zack Scott will be up to the team’s incoming president of baseball operations, current club president Sandy Alderson said Wednesday. But the club may make potentially lasting decisions on both men before hiring a new head of baseball ops.

Both from a contractual standpoint and to do right by Rojas, the Mets intend to decide on his future shortly after the end of the regular season. That will allow Rojas to seek employment elsewhere should Alderson choose not to retain him. But Alderson’s ultimate vision is to hire an executive with full autonomy, who could overrule a decision to keep Rojas.

The same is true regarding Scott, who is on administrative leave following a DUI arrest Aug. 31. Alderson intends to decide on Scott’s future once the next step of his litigation is complete in early October, but that choice won’t necessarily be permanent; an incoming president of baseball operations could reverse it.

“A lot of decisions are driven by the baseball calendar,” Alderson said during an extensive press conference on Wednesday evening. “Some decisions don’t need to be made immediately. On the other hand, it may be in everybody’s interest if those decisions are made in a more timely fashion.

“Ideally, we’ll have somebody in place who can pick up the baseball calendar and move us forward. But at the same time, there will be some interim decisions that will have to be made. What I would hope is that decisions are made with a new leadership potentially in mind -- not trying to anticipate what they would decide, but to make sure … they have as much flexibility as possible.”

While Alderson declined to discuss specific candidates for the president of baseball operations job, sources have indicated that the Mets plan to target the game’s best and brightest -- a list likely to include Theo Epstein, Billy Beane, David Stearns and others. Last year, New York opened the offseason with plans to interview a similar set of candidates, but they found that some had little interest, while others could not receive permission from their current employer.

Entering this autumn, Alderson offered confidence that he and owner Steve Cohen will not face a similar situation.

“There’s a reason why circumstances could change, and that might be changed circumstances for one individual or two individuals,” Alderson said. “It might be changed circumstances in terms of the pool of individuals that we decide to contact, which could be somewhat different than existed last year. I’m optimistic that we will end up in the right place. How exactly we get there, and with whom, is up for grabs.”

Ultimately, Alderson intends to cede all baseball operations power to the incoming president of that department, while shifting more fully to the organization’s business side. That is what the Mets hired him to do, until off-field incidents with former GM Jared Porter and his replacement, Scott, forced Alderson back into the GM chair.

Before giving up his power, Alderson is likely to make at least four more significant decisions. One is the future of Rojas, who has managed the Mets since January 2020. Two is the future of Scott, who could either be dismissed or remain as GM under the incoming executive. Three and four are potential qualifying offers for pending free agents Michael Conforto and Noah Syndergaard. (Conforto is likely to reject such an offer; Syndergaard has expressed a willingness to accept.)

Only after all that business is complete can the Mets move on to their uncertain future, with someone else leading the way.

“So what I’m hopeful of is that we can find someone who is going to be invested in the team long-term and will get in the weeds and provide us with the leadership and the expertise that we need on the baseball side,” Alderson said. “From my standpoint, I’m happy to turn that over to someone we find that is more than capable.”