Sandy Alderson
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Sandy Alderson is the CEO of the Major League Baseball San Diego Padres. He works with general manager Kevin Towers, and worked with ex-field manager Bruce Bochy. The Padres owner is John Moores.
Prior to the Padres, Alderson worked for MLB's commissioner’s office, where he was executive vice president for baseball operations between September 1998 and 2005.
The son of a career Air Force pilot, Alderson learned how to adapt to different environments, different circumstances. On a ROTC scholarship, he attended Dartmouth College and graduated in 1969. Though the United States was then embroiled in Vietnam, he joined the military for a tour of duty. He might have stayed in the military but for his acceptance to Harvard Law School where he graduated in 1976.
After graduating from law school, he worked for Farella Braun & Martel in San Francisco. Roy Eisenhardt, one of the firm's partners, left to become president of the Oakland A's when his father-in-law bought the team. Alderson left private law practice in 1981 to become the A's general counsel. In the 1980s and 1990s Alderson as general manager built the Oakland Athletics into consistent World Series contenders. The A’s won four division titles, three AL pennants and a World Series during Alderson’s tenure as general manager and then president. He is recognized as the first person to run a baseball team utilizing Moneyball.
He and his wife, Linda, have two children.
