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Sandy Alderson, who left his post as the Mets’ general manager last summer because of a cancer recurrence, will return to his baseball roots now that his health improved.
The Oakland Athletics announced on Tuesday that Alderson, 71, would rejoin the club as a senior adviser in the baseball operations department, two decades after he left the team in the hands of Billy Beane.
Alderson announced on Saturday at the New York Baseball Writers’ Awards dinner, where he received an award honoring his career, that he had been cancer-free for four months.