Wally Backman:While Alderson is widely perceived to be the front-runner and the favored choice of commissioner Bud Selig, both Wilpons and Katz remain open-minded, sources said.
Both Alderson and Byrnes presented lists of four or five managerial candidates in their initial interviews. Each of their lists included Mets Class A manager Wally Backman, sources said.
By changing the free-agency rules, Major League Baseball has made getting deals done easier. Teams no longer have an exclusive 15-day negotiating window to negotiate with their own players after the World Series ends. The window has been contracted to five days, so free agents can talk to any team 10 days earlier than they could before.
The deadline for teams to offer salary arbitration to free agents and keep draft-pick compensation is Nov. 23. The deadline for free agents to accept arbitration is Nov. 30. The last day for teams to tender contracts to players under reserve is Dec. 2. And nontendered players become free agents
NESN
The Mets moved to the second phase of their general manager search today, announcing a pair of follow-up interviews to be held next week. Former Arizona general manager Josh Byrnes will be back on Monday. Former Oakland general manager Sandy Alderson follows him on Tuesday.
The interviews will now include Mets CEO Fred Wilpon and team president Saul Katz. Six others already interviewed these past two weeks, meeting with COO Jeff Wilpon and assistant general manager John Ricco
NJ.com
You can never get enough lefty relievers, and Takahashi has plenty of experience and good stuff.
At 35, he might have to settle for a one-year deal, and could be inclined to move across New York to the Yankees
bleacherreport
This, seemingly, was how the Mets have been run the past six years. Their organizational plan appeared to be non-existent, not because it didn’t exist, but because it was invisible in its blandness. The past seasons are best summarized by Jerry Manuel’s infamous “that’s baseball” quotation. That’s just how things are done. Who are we to question it? The problem wasn’t that the team only made bad moves, because they didn’t — it was that they didn’t make any creative, smart ones. They didn’t do anything different from how everyone else was doing it, so they had no advantage over any other teams. Their results weren’t awful, but they weren’t great either. The teams were middling, because the organization’s philosophy was middling. And that was the problem right there.
patrick flood
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