He has taught an actual class, at Cal-Berkeley. Now, from Citi Field, Sandy Alderson teaches a different annual course:
Marketplace Patience 101.
Your 2018 syllabus starts with Jay Bruce.
Look, we spend about 360 days a year ripping the Mets, and nearly all of it is deserved. Let’s just say that the F5 key on my laptop has been programmed to spit out “payroll gap,” and F6 “trust deficit.”
Nevertheless, when it comes to evaluating offseason performances, you owe it not to the Mets, but rather to common sense to let things play out. And the longer things have played out for three years running now, the savvier Alderson and the Mets have appeared for taking their time.