Sandy Alomar News

Roberto Alomar is a candidate on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot for the first year.

It is safe to say that if Roberto Alomar had only hung up his cleats following the 2001 season, he would already be in the Hall of Fame.

Miami Dolphins running back Ronnie Brown will miss Thursday night's game at Carolina because of an injured right foot, and his status for the rest of the regular season is uncertain.

Conducting his second television interview in as many days, Manny Acta sat on the set of All Bets Are Off with Bruce Drennan knowing full well he was about to drop a bombshell.

Outfielder Quintin Berry, left-hander Yohan Flande and right-hander Jesus Sanchez had their contracts selected to the Philadelphia Phillies ' 40-man roster, the club announced today.

Alomar, 43, spent 11 seasons as a catcher with the Cleveland Indians from 1990-2000, where he was a six-time All-Star selection and last summer was the 33rd player to be inducted into the Indians Hall of Fame.

CLEVELAND: It doesn't take a professional pollster to know the Indians' most popular move of the offseason to date has been hiring Sandy Alomar as the new first-base coach and catching instructor.

Dave Jauss, a former bench coach for the Orioles and Dodgers, will be hired to fill the same position by the Mets, FoxSports.com, citing Major League sources, reported on Tuesday.

Having served his time in baseball purgatory, Wally Backman was at KeySpan Park in Coney Island yesterday to be introduced by the Mets as manager of their Single-A Brooklyn affiliate.

Sandy Alomar Jr. is back with the Cleveland Indians. The popular former All-Star catcher has been hired by new Indians manager Manny Acta as a first-base coach.

While riding the undertow of their 97-loss season this year, the Indians reviewed the organization to see what went wrong and how to fix it.

In tribute to the Yankees' 27th championship, we present 27 opinions, factoids, original commentaries and awesomely researched studies related to the just-completed World Series.

Diamondbacks third base coach Chip Hale will now be manning that same spot with the Mets.

Tim Teufel appears poised to climb the minor-league managing ladder to Double-A Binghamton , while two '86 teammates are nearing returns to the Mets organization.

Earlier today, Jerry Manuel made his final appearance of the season with Mike Francesa on WFAN.

Metstradamus 11 Monday, October 05, 2009 Red Light Shakeup FLUSHING, N.Y. , October 5, 2009 - "The New York Mets today announced that Bench Coach Sandy Alomar Sr.

After a miserable season full of baserunning blunders and fielding miscues, the New York Mets made several changes to their coaching staff Monday.

Seattle baseball heroes Ichiro Suzuki and Ken Griffey Jr. were carried off the field after the last game of the Mariners' season.

Of these three Mets coaches, Sandy Alomar Sr. was fired, while Dan Warthen and Howard Johnson are spared.

All-time saves leader Trevor Hoffman agreed Monday to a one-year, $8 million contract to return to the Milwaukee Brewers next season.