{"id":107394,"date":"2020-11-08T03:30:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T00:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/rays-bobby-heck-on-sandy-aldersons-mets-front-office-wish-list\/"},"modified":"2020-11-08T03:30:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T00:30:21","slug":"rays-bobby-heck-on-sandy-aldersons-mets-front-office-wish-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/rays-bobby-heck-on-sandy-aldersons-mets-front-office-wish-list\/","title":{"rendered":"#Rays’ Bobby Heck on Sandy Alderson’s Mets front office wish list"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Rays’ Bobby Heck on Sandy Alderson’s Mets front office wish list<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Sandy Alderson\u2019s return to the Mets as team president officially began Friday, but he also had a six-week head start to formulate plans for a new front office.<\/p>\n

That suggests the turnaround will be short before he implements his plan to hire a president of baseball operations and a general<\/a> manager to thrust the Mets into an offseason that could include free-agent pursuits such as Trevor Bauer, J.T. Realmuto and George Springer. A club source half-jokingly suggested the front-office hirings could happ<\/a>en faster than it took the United States to elect a new president.<\/p>\n

Alderson\u2019s first act in his new role on Friday was to announce the departures of GM Brodie Van Wagenen and assistants Allard Baird and Adam Guttridge, along with director of player development Jared Banner and special assistant Omar Minaya.<\/p>\n

Multiple sources Saturday said Bobby Heck is among the candidates receiving strong consideration to replace Van Wagenen as the head of baseball operations. The 54-year-old Heck has spent the past eight seasons as a special assistant with the Rays, contributing to a front office that is perennially considered among baseball\u2019s best and brightest.<\/p>\n

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Bobby Heck and Sandy Alderson<\/span>Getty Images, Corey Sipkin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Heck previously served as scouting director with the Astros, overseeing drafts that netted Springer, Carlos Correa and J.D. Martinez, among others.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is really a guy that has been under the radar,\u201d said a person who has worked with Heck. \u201cEverybody has their inside contacts and he\u2019s been around the game<\/a> long enough, but he doesn\u2019t appear to be a self-promoter. It\u2019s surprising that his name hasn\u2019t come up more often.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heck\u2019s name arose with the Mets two years ago in their GM search \u2014 he was recommended to former team COO Jeff Wilpon by Steve Cohen, then a minority partner. Cohen now owns the team, after completing his $2.4 billion purchase of the Mets from Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz on Friday.<\/p>\n

If Heck were hired, it would go against the pure analytics trend.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you had to put a percentage on [Heck], I would say a larger percentage would be toward baseball\/scouting guy than analytics,\u201d the person who has worked with Heck said. \u201cBut he\u2019s smart enough to understand you have more information now than you ever had and it just depends on how you want to use it.\u201d<\/p>\n

A bigger fish would be Rays GM Erik Neander, the architect of the team that lost to the Dodgers in the World Series<\/a>. But there are questions of whether Rays owner Stu Sternberg would allow Cohen (of whom he isn\u2019t particularly fond, according to a source) to poach Neander.<\/p>\n

Other names who could gain traction include Indians president of baseball operations Chris Antonetti, Indians GM Mike Chernoff, Athletics assistant GM Billy Owens and former Blue Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi, who has twice worked under Alderson.<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s purge wasn\u2019t unexpected for many in the organization, given that Van Wagenen, Baird, Guttridge and Banner were all imported following Alderson\u2019s resignation as GM in 2018. The toughest call for Alderson might have been Minaya, a former Mets GM who returned after the 2016 season to help bolster the organization\u2019s international scouting. But Minaya\u2019s hiring was forced on Alderson by the Wilpons, a mark against him during the regime change.<\/p>\n

For those who survived the purge, there is a sense of relief that Alderson, who served as the team\u2019s GM for 7 \u00bd seasons, has returned to oversee the organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf all the people I have been around, I don\u2019t respect any of them more than Sandy,\u201d one team official said. \u201cHe\u2019s just that type of person.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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