Sandy Alderson: I didn’t like Billy Eppler, but I didn’t rat him out in Mets’ phantom IL scandal
NY Post
Sandy Alderson was not a fan of former Mets general manager Billy Eppler, but he denied being the one who sent an anonymous letter to Major League Baseball tipping them to a scheme to fabricate injuries in order to create roster spots.
The former Mets team president addressed the topic during the latest episode of “The Show with Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman.”
“Was I a big fan of Billy’s? No, but that’s separate apart from anything else,” Alderson said. “As far as I’m concerned, I don’t think Major League Baseball ever determined who wrote the letter. And there were things in that letter that I was unaware of. So the short answer is no.”
Eppler was suspended earlier this year by MLB until the conclusion of the World Series after a four-month probe confirmed that the baseball exec had improperly placed players on the IL while deliberately fabricating injuries during his tenure as Mets general manager.
An anonymous whistleblower believed to be a Mets employee provided the league with injury-related records that forced MLB to launch an investigation, which Eppler was fully cooperative with.
Eppler resigned as Mets GM on Oct. 5 which was the same day that the investigation became public.
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