Where would we be without Sandy?

by jbox on Feb 4, 2009 4:22 PM PST

Here I am looking at my Padres wall calendar. Khalil Greene is doing the splits in February's picture, I can think of one fan who would get a PFOB looking at such things. Everybody in this calendar is off the team now. This coming weekend is shaded blue with a reminder that Friar Fest was supposed to be this weekend.

I was thinking today about Sandy Alderson leaving the club. It seems everybody either loved him or hated him. I think I some how fell into the middle. I wonder what the Padres would have been like if Sandy had never come to San Diego. Bruce Bochy would probably still be our Manager, Rettenmund or Joyner would be our hitting coach, DePo would be working elsewhere and Hoffman would have retired as a Padre. There probably wouldn't be any Padres manuals, there would be little to no thought put into draft picks. Players wouldn't be held accountable for punching things, radio would be a lot more boring, somebody else would talk down to me as a fan and the Padres would probably be really unorganized.

Where do you think the Padres would be right now without Alderson?

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I have to imagine

that the revolving door of hitting coaches will outlive Alderson.

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by R. Lankford on Feb 4, 2009 5:15 PM PST reply actions

Agreed

it was happening before Sandy and will continue after Sandy.

by SDPads_1 on Feb 4, 2009 8:22 PM PST up reply actions

Love him, or hate him

he gave us something to focus on and gave the organization some transparency. The franchise needed some whipping into shape in a post Matt Bush world, and Sandy did that.

Pre-Sandy, I don’t think anyone knew what direction the Padres were going or what the goals were. Now there’s a front office brimming with good people and what appears to be the makings of a productive farm system.

Most importantly, with the obvious exception, they kept a competitive team on the field while rebuilding from the ground up. The alternative to this approach would have involved imploding the team years ago.

I hope Sandy becomes the new Commissioner of MLB so we get preferential treatment like the Brewers currently enjoy.

I think Khalil is the reason for Magadan, Merv, and Wally.

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by Axion on Feb 4, 2009 5:24 PM PST reply actions 2 recs

Good idea

Commish Sandy. I’ll take it.

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by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Feb 4, 2009 6:02 PM PST up reply actions

I agree with all of that

by jbox on Feb 4, 2009 8:55 PM PST up reply actions

solid post

i can’t say i disagree with anything you said. Including the preferential treatment. :)
jbox, i consider myself in the middle too. I know the mans resume is impressive, but i just didn’t like the way he treated people.

In a way, I am glad he is gone, but i am certainly happy he paid us a visit.

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by wrveres on Feb 5, 2009 6:38 AM PST up reply actions

Hoffman would have retired as a Padre

Sandy set the target payroll at $40 million?

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by Melvin Nieves on Feb 4, 2009 5:59 PM PST reply actions

Sandy withdrew the contract

They did offer him a contract when they knew the target payroll was $40m. I don’t think Trevor would have sat on the offer either because his main issue seemed to be the way Alderson was running the club.

by jbox on Feb 4, 2009 8:54 PM PST up reply actions