More Sandy Alderson Transcripts: Sandy and the Mets Police

The fellas over at Amazin Avenue have a complete transcript of the Sandy Alderson call with he Mets bloggers. Please support Honor Among Bloggers and give them lots of views.

Here’s me & Sandy, again via Amazin Avenue. This will give you more clarity in where I was going and how he replied.

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Shannon Shark (Mets Police): As you head forward and build a roster, I’m curious about just as a general manager, how non-baseball affects the crafting of a roster. When you’re looking at re-signing a player, do you factor in t-shirt sales, ticket sales, TV network, or how a player might fit into team history and legacy?

Sandy Alderson: I think yes to all of those possible factors. Again, they may not have significant weight, but they can come in to play. A couple examples would be Jason Isringhausen, who I’ve mentioned is competing for a spot in the bullpen, and oddly enough, someone like Chin-lung Hu. People have latched on to his name in the “who’s on first?” and all of those kinds of things. So he’s developed a little bit of a following and become part of the entertainment value of what the team represents. Now that’s not going to determine whether he makes the team or someone else does, but it’s a factor, I guess, of some small magnitude. In the case of Izzy, it’s a nice story. If it can work out, it’s great. I think it probably has some slight weight, but you try to make the best baseball decision, and it’s very seldom that all other things are equal and something of that nature, sort of a non-baseball nature, make a difference, but it does happen.

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