Multiple sources are reporting that Sandy Alderson has reached a deal with the New York Mets on a 3-year contract extension to remain as general manager. The new deal will override his 2015 option and span the 2015-17 seasons according to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports.
Mike Puma of the New York Post confirms that it will be a 3-year extension and adds that the deal is believed to contain a club option that keeps him under team control through 2018.
Adam Rubin of ESPN New York hears that the Mets will wait until the season’s end to make an official announcement.
It was Andy Martino of the Daily News who first reported that the Mets and Alderson were working on an extension deal.
Alderson, 66, was hired on Oct. 29, 2010 and is completing the final guaranteed season of an original four-year deal that included a team option for 2015.
The Mets are 301-341 (.469) in four seasons under Alderson and the team will need to win five of their remaining six games in order to produce their first winning record since 2008.
His signature moves as Mets GM include improving the farm system, trading for prospects Zack Wheeler, Dilson Herrera, Travis d’Arnaud and Noah Syndergaard, signing David Wright to an eight-year, $138 million extension, and bringing in free agent Curtis Granderson on a four-year, $60 million deal.
It would make sense that he should stay on to continue building what he began and seeing it through. I would have been fine if the team simply picked up the option and waited to see how 2015 evolved before giving him an extension, but I’m perfectly okay with this.
