Adam Rubin, ESPN Staff Writer 9y

Alderson pokes fun at lack of SS addition

NEW YORK -- Sandy Alderson, who appears poised to go with Wilmer Flores as the Mets' Opening Day shortstop, was able to make light of his lack of an offseason acquisition to play the position on Saturday night.

On hand at the annual Baseball Writers' Association of America New York Chapter dinner at the New York Hilton, Alderson was presenting an award to Cal Ripken Jr. when he reportedly quipped: "Mets fans have been waiting all winter for me to introduce a shortstop."

Alderson has used that same dinner to poke fun at the Mets before. When the Mets brought in Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Yankees added Masahiro Tanaka a year ago, Alderson joked: “We each signed Japanese pitchers this week. They’re paying $155 million and we’re paying our guy month to month.”

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