Mets GM Sandy Alderson faints at press conference

The New York Mets reached agreement on a two-year contract extension with manager Terry Collins on Tuesday.

The Mets should have a chance to repeat next season thanks to their vaunted starting rotation, which Alderson called “second-to-none”. He soon regained consciousness and left under his own power.

Alderson did not eat breakfast, felt lightheaded under the lights of the news conference and fainted.

“He’s fine”, the official said.

Collins has never had a secret or quiet war with his players. Collins is 394-416 in five seasons with the Mets, and at 66 is baseball’s oldest manager. He was Oakland’s general manager from 1983-97, Major League Baseball’s executive vice president of baseball’s operations from 1998-2005 and San Diego’s chief executive officer from 2005-09. But first he wants an opportunity to finish what he started, and to bring a championship to Queens. This season, Greinke was the first Dodgers pitcher to start an All-Star Game since Brad Penny in 2006. But the Mets face huge expectations after what they accomplished, and that in itself makes their job much tougher as they prepare for 2016.

Alderson has an aversion to long-term deals and repeated that Wednesday, saying, “That’s not something we like to do”. Alderson said with a laugh. “Those contracts often don’t work out”.

Here’s an example: it was either Alex Gordon Bobblehead Day or Nebraska Cornhusker Day at Kauffman Stadium – I can’t remember which – and Alex Gordon hit a home run. But he struggled in the postseason, going 12-for-54 at the plate. “We wouldn’t have gotten to the World Series without Cespedes, so from our standpoint, that was a price well paid”. “From our standpoint, that was a price well-paid”. If Murphy accepts, he’d be a Met for 2016 at that salary. The contract will run through the 2017 season, and Jon Heyman of CBS Sports reports the deal is worth about $3 million in total. Following the trade to acquire Yoenis Cespedes, the Mets got hot and ran away with their division down the stretch. And Wheeler – who isn’t expected back from Tommy John rehab until July – already has been traded once by the Mets, in the collapsed Carlos Gomez swap that more famously included a crying Flores. And Alderson said he doesn’t anticipate trading any of his starting pitchers for offense.

Truth be told, it was a question about Juan Lagares’ balky elbow that coincided with the GM feeling woozy. Familia got straight three groundouts, but because Eric Hosmer went insane on the base paths, that wasn’t enough.

“He said, ‘Look, everybody agreed with what you did, ‘ ” Collins explained. A noticeable decline in pitching performance happens between the second and third time through the order, but there is a significant change the fourth time through as well.