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David Wright could see another side of Sandy Alderson, and that opened his eyes to the kind of person that the general manager was far from the match.
"I've obviously been here since Sandy's first day," Wright said Tuesday after Alderson announced he was leaving the position of general manager of the Mets to fight the cancer again. "Sandy has always been as far as the GMs that I've had, a little more in the background, less in the clubhouse and I think it's a little more old school Conversations important, but fast enough.
"Sandy came to play golf with me one day, a few years ago, in Virginia, which made me know that Sandy was away from the baseball field and it was really cool to me, explained Wright. "His state of mind and the way he thinks about things As a player, it's fascinating for me to choose his brain:" Why do you like this player? "Why do you like this player? is the ideal combination of a winning team? "I have learned a lot about the game."
Alderson met the team before Tuesday's game against the Pirates at Citi Field.
"I think there were a lot of jaws that hit the ground," Wright said of Alderson's reaction to the bomb. "It was a touching conversation and in the end we wanted to pay tribute to it and the first thing we could think of was to stand up and applaud it.
"With his military history when Sandy enters a room, he has a presence on him," Wright said of GM who built the Mets World Series team in 2015, but had a hard time. "I grew up in a military city, so when you hear about someone with that kind of experience, it catches your eye. He demands respect. For me, I had the honor of getting to know Sandy. I would have liked to be able to do more in recent years, but … I will always remember the picture of us [after] we had just swept the Cubs [in the 2015] NLCS and he's just sitting in the stands watching us celebrate on the pitch. He did not want attention. He wanted positive attention on the players and when things go wrong on the pitch, he is the first to take the temperature. … This picture was Sandy in a nutshell. "
Alderson, a former Marine, has kept his illness for himself.
"It's kind of a marine mentality," Wright said. "He's always been the first to ask me how I feel.He never mentioned what he went through last year.He cares more about what's going on in this club than him personally.
"It's easy to get an idea of how we play on the field," said Wright, who was not able to play at all because of back and neck surgeries. "There are heads hanging in the clubhouse with the way we play, but when you get news of what Sandy went through, it puts everything in perspective.
"Everybody's here because of Sandy, Sandy, being so calm and so reserved about his health and what he's gone through, and so he's sort of choking something out of tears and collapse a little in front of us, and thank us when we do not play as Although we could have been and much of the blame is put on him, he showed us how much he cares about us in as men there … we have his back. "
During his meeting with the team, Alderson was direct and accurate, Wright said.
"He did not mince his words, he said right away:" This is what happens. He could not help but talk about baseball and what we are experiencing. For that he's even thinking about what's going on here with what he's living and what he's fighting, … [That] says a lot about Sandy Alderson, the general manager, but Sandy Alderson the man, and how much he goes on the back burner.
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