When Sandy Alderson attended the GM meetings in 2013, he quickly found out that free agent shortstop Jhonny Peralta was out of the team’s price range. A year ago, he set the tone early, signing Michael Cuddyer in the first week of free agency.
Coming off the team’s first trip to the World Series in 15 years, Alderson is going into this offseason with as tough an assignment as he’s ever had: keeping the Mets on top despite inevitable change.
Here are five things that he should be doing this offseason, beginning Monday with the GM meetings in Boca Raton.