Hi Matt,

Yes, he is genuis. After all, he’s been acknowledged as the architect of those great Oakland clubs despite coming on board with absolutely no professional baseball knowledge. For anyone to have accomplished such a great feat simply “coming in cold” (the way he describes his background) is nothing less than pure, inate baseball genuis.

Wholesale changes, huh?

Does Alderson ever shoot straight?

if he wanted dickey gone he would trade him for what he could get. That is vastly different than knowing you have a tremendously valuable asset, and looking to see if you can get a top return from him. If not, he stays.

If anything Sandy has an extremely high opinion of him. He also know the team has no position prospects anywhere close, and Dickey is the best ticket to get some.

While one can certainly question Alderson’s vagueness in interviews and a lack of creativity while managing a shoestring budget, it’s ridicoulus claiming he won’t make trades because of the Pagan deal.
Maybe the bigger reason is that the Mets have had very few tradeable commodities over the past 24 months. As a rebuilding team, you’re not likely to trade prospects – and most veterans on the roster were either grossly overpaid ( and thus had no trade value at all like Santana, KRod, Bay, Perez or Castillo), were considered as too important to trade ( Wright), were traded ( Beltran and Pagan, one haul very good, one bad), were let go during the height of financial distress of ownership ( Reyes – we may never know the full story) or are prudently being shopped right now ( Dickey) while weighing the pros and cons of a package of young talent or extending him as a veteran rotation anchor of a young staff.

And please don’t go into the “wah, wah, he didn’t trade Hairston stuff”. What the Mets already have is a very deep system, loaded with 2nd tier prospects. Trading Hairston back in July realistically would have netted a prospect similar to Eric Goeddel, Jefry Marte, Tyler Pill or Juan Lagares. Promising ? Absolutely. Meaningful or worth giving up the hope of getting back to the fringes of the race ? Probably not.

This is being played out very well. At worst, the Mets are bringing back the reigning NL Cy Young award winner.

Let me ask you something, did Harper mention what it is they don’t like? Did he offer up a quote? He basically said nothing and you swallowed it whole as if something is there. Plus it’s third party info.

Like I told Fonzie, if he had said something you disagree with, you’d be the first person calling for more info or saying he’s a hack.