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Topics: New York Mets, Jerry Manuel, Omar Minaya, Citi Field, New York Yankees
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Topics: New York Mets, Jerry Manuel, David Wright, New York Yankees, World Series
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Articles Written by: BEN SHPIGEL
How much money the Mets intend to lavish on free agents to fill their many needs is unclear. What is clear is that the Mets, during a dreadful season and increased criticism of their minor league system, spent less money on the 2009 draft than any ...
The Mets need a new catcher, a starting left fielder, bullpen help and another quality starter and may try to upgrade at first and second base. Their general manager, Omar Minaya, has a busy off-season ahead, but he seems to have identified his ...
As much as Wally Backman wanted to talk about his future, he knew he needed to discuss his past. So after showing off his new Brooklyn Cyclones uniform at his introductory news conference Tuesday, Backman, with little prompting, addressed the issues ...
The Mets’ two biggest off-season objectives, to paraphrase Captain Obvious, are to acquire another slugger and to add a No. 2 starter behind Johan Santana. Not so obvious is how — and if — they will accomplish these goals and find creative ways to ...
Wally Backman returned to the embrace of Major League Baseball after a five-year exile Monday when the Mets appointed him the manager of the Class A Brooklyn Cyclones. He will be introduced at a news conference Tuesday at KeySpan Park on Coney Island, ...
The Mets — remember them? — do not plan to exercise their $9.1 million option on J.J. Putz — remember him? — and will pay him a $1 million buyout. As a free agent, Putz will be free to sign with any team, but it would be hard to imagine him returning ...
After making the last out in the World Series, Shane Victorino did not run back to the Phillies’ dugout. He did not jog, either. He lingered, ever so briefly, making sure to give the Yankees’ celebration a good, hard stare as he walked past the mound. “ ...
A crowd of reporters was waiting outside the Phillies’ clubhouse late Wednesday night, maybe 15 minutes after the game, when someone said that Pedro Martinez had just left and was walking toward the Yankee Stadium exit. It seemed bizarre — why would ...
In the shadow of his famed mango tree, survival skills came naturally to Pedro Martinez. His family slept on the floor of a tin-roofed house, two, sometimes three to a mattress. Instead of a bat, he would swing a broomstick. Instead of a ball, he would ...
The easy answer to the question, “will the Phillies change their Lineup?” is no way, no chance, not at all.
Manager Charlie Manuel used different lineups in Games 1 and 2 because of that pesky designated hitter rule. But when the series shifted to ...
