Let's make this birthday one to remember.

77 years old (Born on November 22, 1947)

Happy Birthday, Sandy Alderson! May your special day have more hits than a sabermetric spreadsheet and fewer surprises than bullpen decisions in October. Your ability to crunch numbers made you the Billy Beane before Billy was even bean-counting. Thanks for bringing statistical savvy—and more importantly—great humor, into the New York Mets organization.

Here's wishing that your birthday stats include numerous cake slices consumed, gifts opened per inning (GOPI?), and jokes cracked per hour above league average. Keep defying expectations—it might not always bump up our WAR, but it definitely boosts our smiles-per-game ratio. Cheers to another statistically significant year!