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Marcus Stroman accepted the New York Mets qualifying offer of 18.9 million dollars to return to Queens for the 2021 season. Stroman did not play in 2020 originally because of a calf injury then decided to opt-out due to the Covid-19. .@STR0 accepts Mets’ qualifying offer. https://t.co/w3XZg2iJ4V pic.twitter.com/uy8qpiYhM5 — MLB (@MLB) November 11, 2020 Stroman’s […] READ MORE
The new owner of the New York Mets, Steve Cohen has made several moves in the front office. General Manager Brodie Van Wagenen and executives Allard Baird, Omar Minaya, Adam Guttridge, and Jared Banner have all been relieved of their duties. New owner Steve Cohen cleaning house with Mets. GM Brodie Van Wagenen and several […] READ MORE
The 2020 season for the New York Mets ended with great disappointment. Even with the expanded playoff format, the Mets could never put together that one run to propel them into the playoffs. There certainly is plenty of blame to go around. But how much of this season was to blame on the Mets offense? […] READ MORE
In the wake of the finalized sale of the New York Mets to hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen, the Mets have made a couple of transactions and are rumored to be making a third one on Sunday. As free agency officially begins on Sunday there is a lot of speculation on how active the Mets […] READ MORE
Friday afternoon Steve Cohen received the required 75% of the vote by the MLB owners to officially become the owner of the New York Mets. Cohen, who was previously a minority owner reportedly paid 2.4 billion dollars to Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz to assume a 95% control of the team. The Wilpons Sterling Equities […] READ MORE
Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson has died after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. Gibson was 84 years old and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1981. While Stan Musial is considered the best player in St. Louis Cardinals history. Gibson is the best pitcher in the history of the Cardinals. Bob […] READ MORE
Brodie Van Wagenen is probably a very nice guy. He is a great public speaker, aside from that one incident where he ripped Commissioner Manfred when he didn’t realize there was a hot mic recording his words. Van Wagenen is also a great salesman. He did sell Fred and Jeff Wilpon that a former agent […] READ MORE
Brodie Van Wagenen certainly has made a lot of highly questionable transactions over his two-year reign as the general manager of the New York Mets. He has constantly traded prospects for mostly fringe major league players with the exception of his first big trade. While some of these prospects were not highly ranked, a good […] READ MORE
A’s 6 White Sox 4 The Oakland Athletics defeated the Chicago White Sox 6-4 Thursday afternoon in Oakland winning the Wild Card series two games to one. In what was a true all hands on deck bullpen game, the teams combined to use 17 pitchers setting a record for a postseason game. This A’s White […] READ MORE
Athletics 5 White Sox 3 The A’s White Sox series is heading for a deciding game three. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Chicago White Sox 5-3 to even up the best of three series on Wednesday afternoon. The first two games of the series were very similar with the winning team getting an early lead. […] READ MORE