I don’t think we have yet to see Alderson make a true impact on the major league team. So really his grade some be “INC”.

However, we have heard him make an impact in the media and I doubt anyone will give him a passing grade in that regard.

in the past be considered “reaching” or “living in the past”. When people bitch about current Padres teams, they point to the ‘98 and ’96 teams, and yet that’s not living in the past. Pointing to his past successes is simply a logical thing to do when your assessing someone’s ability. Past performance tends to be a pretty reliable indicator of future ability. Otherwise, why would we even look at stats in baseball?

And I really don’t understand this notion that the Padres’ winning teams were mediocre. The 2006 team was damn good and the Cardinals just happened to get hot at the right moment. Who knows how that series plays out if Mike Piazza catches the foul ball before Pujols puts it over the fence? But because he didn’t, this is somehow proof that Alderson is overrated as a baseball exec?

Sorry, but I do think he’s a baseball genius. He’s methodical and he’s had success in the past. For all of Sandy’s faults, he’s always been honest about his plans and has executed them faithfully. You can’t accuse him of lurching from signing to signing à la Ned Colletti. He has a plan that he’s executing and the farm is improving. 2005 – 2007 was a good set of years.

I don’t give Sandy credit for the NL West title we won his first season (2005) considering he was officailly hired in April thus giving him no offseason time. But I think he was brought here to build up the minor leagues, increase our chances for foreign players & have the major league team be competitive in the process. The minor leagues are much stronger now, we were major players in the foreign draft & 2 of the 3 seasons he has been here we’ve been competitive. So I’d say B but possibly higher if Moores didn’t order this payroll to be slashed this season.

Moores said one reason he hired Alderson is because he wasn’t happy with the franchise’s farm system and its baseball academy in the Dominican Republic.

"There are opportunities that we missed," Moores said.

needed a guy to run through the mud even when the sun was shining. Sandy is doing a pretty good job of being the guy that everyone likes to hate.

I can think of three significant contributions since he came here.

1. Turned out farm system from a joke to the top half and is continuing to improve.

2. Turned our presence in the Dominican and surrounding areas from nothing to the best in baseball

3. Make significant inroads into the Far East Market

needs a Z…. minus.

I understand the direction Alderson is taking this ball club, and I appreciate it. I have stood up for him and Moores for a while. This ship sorely needed any direction, it needed a new captain. I guess that’s why I have never understood how Kevin Towers was allowed to keep his gig. Towers spent a decade routinely crashing this yacht into the rocks.

The A’s won four division titles, three AL pennants and a World Series during Alderson’s tenure. Billy Beane then destroyed it, but hey, thats another story. The point is I am stoked to have Sandy Alderson at the helm.It’s not so much that I don’t like Sandy Alderson’s ego though, it’s that Sandy is a baseball man, he is an inner circle guy. If there is an MLB “Star Chamber”, Sandy gets a seat. I guess you can I don’t trust him.

Whenever huge contracts get signed in MLB, not by the padres mind you, but by any other team, you will routinely hear Sandy grumbling to the media. It’s not even his team, but the media knows to go to Sandy for a quote. I guess that could be ego. When Bud Selig needed someone to cleanup and reorganize the umps, he called Sandy. Who do you think fired all those Umpires back in ’99 in an attempt to break the union?

Sandy.

link ’’They’re making a mistake if they think they’re going to resign and still umpire,‘’ said an official privy to Selig’s thinking. He added that barring a change in that thinking, Selig will accept the resignations and wish the umpires well in their future careers. ‘’Richie is looking for something he’s not going to get. Bud and the owners will see this as a chance to get rid of Richie and break the union.‘’. Phillips is counting on baseball’s experience with replacement umpires to prompt Selig and Sandy Alderson, who has been the point man in umpiring matters, to negotiate a deal by Sept. 2.

Just a week or so back, there was an interview in the UT about Moores divorce, about how everyone in baseball appreciates the fact that he puts MLB itself, before his team. I can’t find the link now, but it was around the same time that Bud came out with his praise too.

"He brings great leadership in a lot of really important areas," Selig said of Moores before last night’s World Series game at Citizens Bank Park. "He’s had a great history the last decade. And I would not like to lose that leadership. "He’s very important. He’s been on all of the important committees. He’s been involved in all things. When I tell you he’s been a really constructive force in this sport, I am not exaggerating."

well yeah, because John Moores is hands off, and he lets Buds pal Sandy control everything.

"I expect to be consulted but I’m highly confident that from here on out, personnel decisions will be his," the owner said.

don’t get me wrong, San Diego gets repaid in kind.

link Alderson was influential in bringing the semi-finals and championship game of the inaugural World Baseball Classic to San Diego in March of 2006.

its all inner circle stuff.

Something else. I have never heard of an MLB team refusing to pay a player for an injury. Maybe I am wrong, I certainly haven’t researched it. I know it hasn’t happened in San Diego. When Sandy Alderson was pressed on this exact issue today, " ..whether this has happened before in the MLB", Sandy avoided answering he question. I think that Alderson is doing this maybe as a test case. The CBA is coming soon.

I could be wrong, but no, I don’t trust the guy.

I thought I would be okay with that, if the results were ok. The result being a ring.

but i don’t know anymore.

i give him a C- so far.