Sandy Alderson said he is cancer free:
NY Post
“My health is great,” Alderson said. “Since I took a leave of absence from the Mets last summer, I’ve had chemo and surgery — my third surgery — but at this point, based on the medical definition, I’m cancer-free and have been for four months.”
That’s great news, and I wish him continued good health.
Sandy Alderson took a leave of absence from the Mets to deal with a recurrence of cancer:
Alderson was originally diagnosed with cancer in 2015. He said it had returned in April or May this year.
“Since that time I’ve been undergoing treatment,” the Mets general manager said at a news conference Tuesday. “I expect to have surgery later in the summer. My prognosis is actually good.”
Without Alderson, the Mets’ baseball operations will be led by John Ricco, Omar Minaya and J.P. Ricciardi. Alderson may not return to the role, regardless of how his treatment goes.
“If I were to look at it on the merits, I’m not sure coming back is warranted,” Alderson said.
Whether he comes back or not, I wish him a speedy recovery. It sounds like Alderson is making it easy for the Mets to promote someone else.
Sandy Alderson told the media today that he underwent surgery last week as part of his cancer treatment, and the surgery went well. Here’s hoping Alderson’s recovery keeps moving in that direction.
It’s good to see Sandy Alderson is doing well as he battles cancer.
Mets general manager Sandy Alderson has cancer. His prognosis is good, and I hope he makes a speedy recovery.
I certainly hope Sandy Alderson is okay. When I saw the headline, I thought of the sudden death of Gil Hodges.
A new book, written with Sandy Alderson’s co-operation, details how the Mets general manager dealt with the financial austerity imposed by the Madoff scandal:
Contrast this optimism about changing finances with this, from Kettmann, on page 235: “The wonder going into the 2014 season was that the press gave the Mets as much of a break as it did. Part of it was simple disbelief. They couldn’t really be planning to hold their payroll down around $85 million, could they, despite being a team in the largest market in the country with their own cable network and a shiny new ballpark? They couldn’t possibly propose crawling into the 2014 season with a payroll among the lowest in all of baseball, could they?”
Kettmann doesn’t identify the “they”, though it is clearly the ones controlling the spending. And this isn’t merely Kettmann’s take, but Alderson’s.
“But caution about spending, extreme caution, would remain the rule,” Kettmann continues. “Alderson found himself sustained through the winter by his sense of humor and the joy he’d always taken in the absurd. His own situation was in many ways absurd and he knew it. He took the job with the Mets with the expectation of being able to put in place a system … on the one hand, with a payroll robust enough to move forward in a timely way on improving the team. Instead, because of the way the Madoff scandal engulfed the Mets, Alderson was back to the baseball version of duct tape and ingenuity, trying to get by on less.”
In a way, the Mets were lucky to have Alderson and his crew, who learned their skills with the low revenue Oakland Athletics. Somehow, he has this team on the cusp of a very good season.
Hat tip, BBTF. The book is Baseball Maverick: How Sandy Alderson Revolutionized Baseball and Revived the Mets
Sandy Alderson is tweeting, and he already is showing off his sense of humor.
Sandy Alderson lost his father in a traffic accident:
John Alderson, a veteran of three wars and the father of New York Mets GM Sandy Alderson, died on Saturday night as the result of injuries suffered when he was struck as a pedestrian, according to St. Petersburg Police.
Alderson, 87, was crossing in the middle of the 3600 block of 4th St. North in St. Petersburg, Fla. at 11:54 p.m. when he was struck by a 21-year-old driver, according to the authorities. Alderson was transported to Bayfront Medical Center and was pronounced dead 45 minutes later.
My sympathies go out to the Alderson family.
Via MetsBlog.com, the Mets and Sandy Alderson agreed to a deal.
A baseball official confirmed this morning a report originally reported last night by SI.com that the Mets have decided on Sandy Alderson as the next GM.
There is still work to do with the commissioner’s office have to approve the deal and release Alderson from his current job, which is thought to be a certainty with Bud Selig already giving the Mets the go-ahead to speak with Alderson. No contracts are signed yet, but the two sides are believed to have agreed on a deal and an MLB official said that the Mets would likely make the official announcement Friday during the travel day of the World Series.
If this turns out to be true, good for the Mets. I can’t wait to see what Sandy does with this team. I suspect the team will get younger quickly.
The Mets seemed to know what they were doing in this process. Both their final candidates, Alderson and Josh Byrnes would likely do a good job with the team.