The Oakland Athletics announced Tuesday that they have hired former Mets’ general manager Sandy Alderson as senior adviser to baseball operations.
“I am really excited to return to the A’s and the Bay Area,” Alderson said.
“His mentorship and friendship have been invaluable to me over the course of my career, and I look forward to the expertise and perspective he will add at every level of the organization,” Billy Beane, A’s executive vice president of baseball operations said.
Alderson, was hired by the Mets after the 2010 season. He was diagnosed with cancer at the end of the 2015 season and had surgery, the same season the Mets lost to the Royals in the World Series.
Alderson took a leave of absence in June 2018 after announcing his cancer had returned.
The 71-year-old Alderson announced he is cancer-free on Saturday night while attending the New York Baseball Writers’ Association of America Dinner.
Alderson previously spent 17 seasons with the Athletics, first serving as the team’s general counsel in 1981.
In 1983 he was named executive vice president of baseball operations, which saw the team win the American League pennant three consecutive seasons (1988-90), winning the World Series in 1989.
After his time with Oakland, he also worked in the commissioner’s office and the San Diego Padres.
Alderson, a Marine infantry officer who served in Vietnam, is a Harvard Law School graduate.