MLBBy Chris Novak on

On Presidents’ Day, the New York Mets are now President-less.

Sandy Alderson officially departed the position of team president on Monday. The process had rolled out last year and finally came to fruition, ironically, on Presidents’ Day.

Newsday Mets writer Tim Healey tweeted, “Steve Cohen said Sandy Alderson is now an advisor, no longer the team president. Cohen has become more involved in day-to-day operations, including spending every Thursday in Meets meets instead of at his hedge fund. Cohen said the Mets might go all season without a president.”

The Mets hired Alderson initially in 2011. He spent eight years with the club before he fled to the Oakland Athletics. Two seasons later, Alderson returned to the Mets. But since last year the team and Alderson have worked to transition him to an advisor role.

Sandy Alderson worked in baseball in the front office since 1981. He worked with the A’s, Mets, and San Diego Padres. Under Alderson, New York appeared in the 2015 World Series. But they failed to win that series, losing to the Kansas City Royals. Previously, Alderson had won a World Series in 1989 with the Athletics, when Oakland defeated their Bay Area rival, the San Francisco Giants.

Later, the MLB world, specifically Met fans, for the most part, reacted to the news.

[Tim Healey]

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Chris Novak has been talking and writing about sports ever since he can remember. Previously, Novak wrote for and managed sites in the SB Nation network for nearly a decade from 2013-2022

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