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Baseball maverick : how Sandy Alderson revolutionized baseball and revived the Mets / Steve Kettmann.

by Kettmann, Steve.

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Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015.

796.357092 A362k

Alderson, Sandy.

New York Mets (Baseball team)

Oakland Athletics (Baseball team)

Baseball -- United States -- Management -- Biography.

9780802119988 (hc.)

0802119980 (hc.)

viii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Kne Sanh -- Poster boy -- Holy Toledo! -- Hooked up with Apple -- Computer helps A's zap Tigers -- The Google of baseball -- Earthquake -- Passing the torch -- Alderson's brain trust -- The Madoff mess -- Winter meetings 2012 -- Spring training 2013 -- Sweep -- Patience -- The best day of the year -- "Come on, blue!" -- Hangin' with Jay-Z -- The ninety-win challenge -- Don't think -- Fizzle -- "Throw a goddamned fastball!" -- Hanging by a thread -- Back to where it all started -- The future is now -- Epilogue: Zero hour for the mets.

Describes how the New York Mets hired a former Marine and Vietnam vet, who had completely revolutionized the Oakland A's and guided them to a World Series win, to resuscitate their suffering franchise in 2010. His renewal of the Mets despite a limited budget, through big trades that brought back high-profile prospects to the development of young aces including Matt Harvey, Zach Wheeler, and Jacob deGrom, are profiled in this behind-the-scenes look at a Major League team and an exploration of intelligent decision-making in management.

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