METS MANAGER SEARCH UPDATE FROM GM SANDY ALDERSON
Dear Mets Fan:
As you might have heard last night or this morning, we have completed the first round of interviews in the search for our new Manager.
We’ve invited Bob Melvin, Wally Backman, Terry Collins, and Chip Hale back for a second round of interviews while we are at the MLB meetings in Orlando. We are meeting with Bob and Chip today; and with Wally and Terry tomorrow.
We thank the four finalists and the other six candidates – Dave Jauss, DeMarlo Hale, Clint Hurdle, Don Wakamatsu, Ken Oberkfell, and Jose Oquendo — for their interest in the position and their time to interview. We will continue discussions with Dave and Ken about their roles in the organization and wish all the others the best of success.
Throughout the search, we’ve had productive and candid dialogue with every candidate, all of whom had good ideas toward how again we become a winning club. We expect to have a decision before Thanksgiving and look forward to sharing that news soon.
Thank you for your ongoing interest and support.
Sincerely,
Sandy Alderson
General Manager
15 comments
kingman 26
11/17/2010-4:12pm at 4:12 pm (UTC -4)
Rusty—
Who is YOUR choice among these four?!?!
rustyjr
11/17/2010-5:32pm at 5:32 pm (UTC -4)
Gun to my head – Collins
hazmet
11/17/2010-5:39pm at 5:39 pm (UTC -4)
In a twist Sandy will hire all 4 candidates as Manager in a forward thinking approach mirroring the 3 headed monster front office structure. They will rotate weekly in the Manager’s spot until a steel cage death match at the all star break will be held to determine the winner.
wannybackstra
11/17/2010-5:57pm at 5:57 pm (UTC -4)
these four might actually make a good coaching staff together with Collins as MGR, Melvin as his intellectual bench coach, Hale at 3B (where we know he is solid) and Backman at 1B serving the role of fan favorite and coaching baserunners.
Of course, this might be awkward for all.
hazmet
11/17/2010-5:59pm at 5:59 pm (UTC -4)
lol, that’s actually what spawned the thought.
gategem
11/17/2010-7:29pm at 7:29 pm (UTC -4)
BTW Even though your comment was in jest the Chicago Cubs already tried that, of course without the steel cage match. It proved to be a hopeless formula that was an abject failure.
stickguy
11/17/2010-4:42pm at 4:42 pm (UTC -4)
Just hire someone already so we can move onto the more important off season business.
making up and posting inane trade proposals and then spending all day discussing them as if there was ever a chance they could happen!
seriously though I wonder how far along Sandy and the gang are with evaluating all the players in the organization, and putting to gether the off season to-do list (plyaer wise, obviously the remaking the organization one is quite long)?
even a guy like Uggla, who IMO was not a logical fit right now, was he not pursued because the FO did not want him, or because they weren’t prepared yet to make a big move?
speaking of which, I had XM home plate on about an hour ago, and the host (might have been Bowden) was absolutely ripping the Marlins a new one about this deal. Not just for how little they got back (ignoring the fact that to them saving money was the best return!) but because of how soon they did it, vs. letting the market develop.
actually made fun saying there is apparantly a Nov 17 trade deadline no one else was aware of! and that the Braves and marlins GMs were sitting next to each other at the morning meetings, passing notes back and forth like 2 girls in Elementary school.
kingman 26
11/17/2010-4:59pm at 4:59 pm (UTC -4)
They are not spending on Uggla this offseason.
stickguy
11/17/2010-5:32pm at 5:32 pm (UTC -4)
well, certainly not now they aren’t!
njstuckintx
11/17/2010-10:18pm at 10:18 pm (UTC -4)
Other than the added $$$ they didn’t want to take on, who would the Mets have that fits their needs? Pagan, maybe. After that, Fmart? Other Prospects? I’d love Uggly on the team, but I didn’t see the fit.
GravediggerHebner
11/17/2010-6:15pm at 6:15 pm (UTC -4)
Also from the desk of Sandy Alderson:
Please get your feet off of me. Thank you.
File the below under things I never would have imagined hearing a few months ago:
AnthonyDiComo
Bob Melvin describes #Mets interview process as “a lot of smart people asking a wide range of difficult questions.”
wannybackstra
11/17/2010-6:29pm at 6:29 pm (UTC -4)
Surprising that Jeff Wilpon was not involved in this interview process.
metsfan4decades
11/17/2010-8:47pm at 8:47 pm (UTC -4)
From everything I’ve read, Jeff and ‘smart’ people don’t belong in the same sentence.
I know….bad. I don’t even know the guy.
njstuckintx
11/17/2010-10:20pm at 10:20 pm (UTC -4)
I read today somewhere that he was present in the Rd2 interviews. Now… where was it that I read that? Hmmm. Let me search and revert.
njstuckintx
11/17/2010-10:30pm at 10:30 pm (UTC -4)
Rubin’s Melvin report, per ESPN New York.
Bob Melvin chatted in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria in Orlando after a 90-minute interview with Mets brass, which included chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon