What Sandy Alderson got right and wrong in complicated tenure

Noah Syndergaard and Daniel MurphyThe hits and misses of Sandy Alderson’s Mets regime, which may be over.

Hits

Trading for Noah Syndergaard: Alderson turned the Cy Young season of 37-year-old R.A. Dickey into one of baseball’s best young arms. While Dickey never came close to replicating his brilliant final season in Queens, Syndergaard is one of the team’s top-two starters.

Acquiring Yoenis Cespedes: The lineup got the power-infusion needed in 2015 in a last-minute deadline deal, in which Alderson gave up pitchers Michael Fulmer and Luis Cessa to get Cespedes. The outfielder sparked an unexpected World Series run by hitting 17 home runs in 57 regular-season games, then finished eighth in the…