After collecting dust on a side table for the past several months, I finally powered through the last half of “Baseball Maverick: How Sandy Alderson Revolutionized Baseball and Revived the Mets.”
The extended title explains why I found it hard to pick it up again — the book lionizes Alderson, fawning over him at every turn. Alderson has never made a bad move. Ever. It is the same style that turned me off to “Moneyball.” And as a Sandy Alderson critic, it was tough to read. Alderson has made plenty of mistakes during his tenure as Mets general manager.