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Sandy Alderson Set to Return to Mets as Team President
Sep 24, 2020
Steven Cohen , the presumptive new owner of the Mets, announced on Thursday that he intended to bring Sandy Alderson back as president of the team’s baseball and business operations. Alderson’s fingerprints are all over the current Mets roster, as he was the general manager of the club from 2010 until 2018, helping them to the National League pennant in 2015. He stepped down in the summer of 2018 because of a recurrence of cancer, but a year later he announced that he was cancer free after joining the Oakland A’s as a senior adviser . He would not take over his new post in Queens until after the sale to Cohen is finalized, a process that may take several weeks. Cohen reached an agreement last week to buy 95 percent of the club from the owners Fred Wilpon, Saul Katz and Jeff Wilpon for roughly $2.42 billion, pending the approval of 22 of the other 29 owners in Major League Baseball. Cohen will be the club’s chairman and chief executive, and Alderson will report directly to him. Cohen has owned a small piece of the Mets since 2012 and got to know Alderson in that capacity.
“Sandy is an accomplished and respected baseball executive who shares my philosophy of building an organization and a team the right way,” Cohen said in a statement. “I am excited to have Sandy in a key leadership role with the Mets if my purchase of the team is approved.” A native and resident of Long Island, Cohen is a longstanding Mets fan who concluded his statement with, “Let’s Go Mets!” Alderson could dismiss Brodie Van Wagenen, the current general manager, and hire someone else to handle the day-to-day operations of the baseball side of the team. Van Wagenen has not had great success in his two years running the club; his tenure has been shadowed in part by the acquisition of a few of his former clients from his time as a player agent , including Jed Lowrie and Robinson Cano, who had an unproductive first year in Flushing but has rebounded well this year. Alderson, 72, replaced Omar Minaya as G.M. after the 2010 season and began to reshape the club through a series of draft picks, trades and carefully selected free-agent signings. Many of the most promising core players on the team’s roster serve as validation of his baseball judgment, including draft picks like Brandon Nimmo, Dominic Smith, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, David Peterson and Jeff McNeil. He also traded for Noah Syndergaard, and the Mets signed Amed Rosario and Andres Gimenez while Alderson was in charge. Alderson also hired Terry Collins to manage the Mets before the 2011 season.
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