Sandy Alderson, Lou Piniella on non-player era committee Hall of Fame ballot

A Mets architect, an invaluable pair of eyes who helped put together the dynastic Yankees and a longtime major league manager who was beloved in The Bronx are vying for Cooperstown.Sandy Alderson, Brian Sabean and Lou Piniella are on the eight-person, non-player ballot that will be considered by the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee for Hall of Fame election for the Class of 2027, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced Monday.The committee will meet on Dec.6 in San Diego to vote on a group that also includes Dusty Baker and Bruce Bochy, who are World Series-winning managers and front-runners, along with Joe Maddon, Ted Turner and Bill White.The candidates, who will be considered by this committee because their primary contribution to the game has come since 1980, will need 75 percent of the vote from the 16-person panel to earn induction.Locally, the most relevant candidates are:Mets GM from 2011–2018 and president from 2021–2023With a résumé that also includes a World Series and three pennants as GM of the A’s, a pair of division titles as chief executive officer of the Padres and work in the commissioner’s office, Alderson guided the Mets to various heights and through plenty of turbulence beginning in 2011.As GM, he signed David Wright; helped stitch together the Fab Five rotation of the mid-2010s, trading for Zack Wheeler and Noah Syndergaard and overseeing the development of Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom and Steven Matz, which culminated in a World Series appearance in 2015; and was a face of an often dysfunctional and penny-pinching Wilpon era.Alderson stepped away from his day-to-day duties after a cancer diagnosis in 2018, and returned early in the 2020s as a trusted voice to lead an organization that Steve Cohen was buying.Yankees scout, scouting director and director of player development from 1985-1992 and executive senior adviser from 2023-26Sabean is better known for his GM reign with the Giants, with whom he won World Series i...