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Sandy Alderson Expected To Be Named Mets President After Team Sale

Last week, it was announced that the Mets were being sold by the Wilpon family to an investment group headlined by Steve Cohen. It appears that with the MLB playoffs underway and the Mets only having a 1.6% to make the postseason, it appears that the new ownership group is going to clean house. Their first move is likely to be adding veteran baseball decision maker Sandy Alderson as the teams’ newest president.

Alderson, 72, served as New York’s general manager from 2010 to 2018 before taking a leave of absence that ended his tenure as GM. He was hired as an advisor with the A’s in January 2019, returning to Oakland after 17 seasons with the franchise in the 1980s and 1990s. “If I am fortunate enough to be approved by Major League Baseball as the next owner of this iconic franchise, Sandy Alderson will become president of the New York Mets and will oversee all Mets baseball and business operations,” Cohen said in a statement on Thursday. “Sandy is an accomplished and respected baseball executive who shares my philosophy of building an organization and a team the right way. I am excited to have Sandy in a key leadership role with the Mets if my purchase of the team is approved.”

After the Mets have been hapless for several decades, these shifts in ownership and decision making seem to be giving fans of the team their first taste of hope for the first time in a while. They will have to wait at least until next April to see the result of these changes but the Mets appear to be trending upwards.

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