Sandy Alderson Archives

GM’s new Mets should hit the ground running with a long to-do list

November 13, 2021 mohmad free

Another day came and went Friday without an announcement from the Mets that they had settled on the next person to run their baseball operations division. But once that person is finally hired, he or she will have to act quickly, with less than three weeks left until a potential shutdown across Major League Baseball, unless a new collective bargaining agreement is agreed before 11:59 p.m. ET on December 1 . Even without that looming deadline, and the player transaction freeze that will follow, there is a long list of…

It would be foolish the Mets to go all out in the mysterious year of Jacob Degrom

November 12, 2021 mohmad free

With Jacob deGrom’s status unclear, and holes in the hosts roster to be filled, the Mets should be careful about going into it this winter. .

GM meetings end as Mets questions continue in the front office

November 12, 2021 mohmad free

CARLSBUDD, CA – With Major League Baseball’s annual general manager meetings broken up Thursday, the Mets were still without a general manager and uncertainty remained over their schedule to hire one. The Mets had several candidates in play upon the departure of team boss Sandy Alderson the night before, with former National GM assistant GM Adam Cromie and former Angels GM Billy Eppler up front. Cromie met Mets owner Steve Cohen earlier in the week after speaking face-to-face with Alderson in Pittsburgh. Ebler has previously spoken to the Mets family,…

Brewers boss David Stearns may play the Mets next year

November 11, 2021 mohmad free

CARLSBUDD, CA – The elephant stood in the park toward the back Wednesday afternoon, 20 feet from Sandy Alderson, as the Mets chief engaged with a large media crowd wondering when the club would end its odyssey-like search for a new one. Head of Baseball Operations. The answer seems soon. On the other hand, it is very likely that it will not happen soon at all. It sure looks like the Mets are about to name Adam Karume as their general manager. Cromie is a man whose existence most of…

Sandy Alderson of the Mets Wants to Hire a GM Before a Director

November 10, 2021 mohmad free

CARLSBUDD, CA – A lack of competition for managerial candidates made Mets president Sandy Alderson wait even after appointing a general manager before turning attention to field staff. “We have one coach,” Alderson joked at Tuesday’s general managers meetings, referring to showrunner Jeremy Hefner, whose 2022 option was picked last month. Luis Rojas was informed on 4 October that he would not be returning for a third season as a coach. Since then, most of the Mets’ attention has focused on finding the next baseball operations captain. Alderson has hinted…

Mets enters GM meetings without new baseball chief

November 8, 2021 mohmad free

Carlsbad, CA — This week’s general manager meetings will begin perfectly for the Mets with a new front office chief in place, but more often for the best plans in place. Instead, work is underway on the second consecutive season as head coach Sandy Alderson has been tasked with directing the moves, as the Mets are still looking for a baseball operations officer. Over four days in Southern California, he will lead the Mets delegation in discussions with the opposing team’s agents and executives about potential player acquisitions in this…

The funny Mets office is back in search of where it started

November 6, 2021 mohmad free

“First of all, the Mets have become a very attractive landing spot. I think that’s true across the board. I think people are interested in working with the Mets in-game and they might not have been before.” – Sandy Alderson, November 10, 2020 A year earlier this week, Steve Cohen and Alderson held a joint press conference to officially introduce Cohen as the new Mets owner. Rewatching it with current knowledge is a bit like watching “Saturday Night Live.” It’s 90 minutes long. It is full of parodies. You will…

The Mets expected to interview Raquel Ferreira of the Red Sox at the GM opening

November 3, 2021 mohmad free

HOUSTON – The Mets are expected to interview an interesting candidate for the opening of their top front office. What remains is whether this candidate is intrigued enough to end the Mets’ torturous search for a new chief of baseball operations. An industry source has confirmed that Raquel Ferreira, Red Sox’s executive vice president and assistant general manager, is likely to be interviewed by the Mets in the coming days. The Red Sox is believed to have given permission to the Mets, after other clubs halted attempts to hire their…

Mets focus on new GM after baseball chief search fails

October 30, 2021 mohmad free

ATLANTA — The Mets’ hunt for the head of baseball’s operations appears to have turned into a search for a general manager, with the team’s focus perhaps shifting more to rising CEOs than well-known names. It’s an extensive research that can’t be guaranteed to be completed by the time the general managers meetings take place in Carlsbad, California, on November 8, but owner Steve Cohen remains actively involved in the process, according to sources. Among the names on the Mets’ radar are Cardinals assistant general manager Randy Flores, Rays vice…