Steven Cohen, the presumptive new owner of the Mets, announced on Thursday that he intended to bring Sandy Alderson back as president of the team’s baseball and business operations.

Alderson’s fingerprints are all over the current Mets roster, as he was the general manager of the club from 2010 until 2018, helping them to the National League pennant in 2015. He stepped down in the summer of 2018 because of a recurrence of cancer, but a year later he announced that he was cancer free after joining the Oakland A’s as a senior adviser.

He would not take over his new post in Queens until after the sale to Cohen is finalized, a process that may take several weeks. Cohen reached an agreement last week to buy 95 percent of the club from the owners Fred Wilpon, Saul Katz and Jeff Wilpon for roughly $2.42 billion, pending the approval of 22 of the other 29 owners in Major League Baseball.

Cohen will be the club’s chairman and chief executive, and Alderson will report directly to him. Cohen has owned a small piece of the Mets since 2012 and got to know Alderson in that capacity.

Source: New York Times

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