The New York Mets today announced that Mookie Wilson has returned to the organization as the team’s minor league outfield and base running coordinator. Wilson, a former Mets player, coach and minor league manager, was last with the club in 2005 as the manager of the Brooklyn Cyclones (A) of the New York-Penn League.
The New York Mets today announced they have acquired outfielder Gary Matthews, Jr. and cash consideration from the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in exchange for righthanded pitcher Brian Stokes.
The waiting is the hardest part / Every day you get one more yard / You take it on faith / You take it to the heart / The waiting is the hardest part. Tom Petty must be a Met fan. Or at least he knows what it’s like to be a Met fan.
Mets centerfielder Carlos Beltran had worsening of osteoarthritis of the right knee during the offseason. He had not been experiencing pain following the conclusion of the season.
The New York Mets today announced that they signed infielder Russ Adams, third baseman Mike Cervenak, righthanded pitcher R.A. Dickey, outfielder Jesus Feliciano, infielder Andy Green and infielder Mike Hessman to minor league contracts and invited all six to major league Spring Training camp in Port St. Lucie, Fla. next month.
Anderson Hernandez hit the 6,000th home run in Mets' history in the first game of the day-night doubleheader in Philadelphia this past Sunday. Here are some of the other all-time milestone homers for the Mets:
Gary Sheffield begins September as the Mets home run leader with 10. Sheffield's total is the lowest by a Mets player heading into the season's final full month in club history.
Permit me this indulgence as I begin the post All Star break period. The tiny bit of vacation that I had adjacent to the break allowed for a brief vacation, and at my wife's behest we spent a few days in London.
Sitting here in a dank, bleak hotel room in Baltimore, watching the rain come down, makes me wonder just exactly why it is that we're here. That's WE, as in the entire Mets traveling party, not just me.
We interrupt this baseball season once again to bring you interleague play. This gimmick, which totally distorts what used to be known as pennant races...
In an interview, I once asked Hall of Fame broadcaster Jack Buck what sport was his favorite to broadcast? Without any hesitiation he replied, " winning baseball". I asked the inevitable follow up question, which sport is your least favorite? Jack answered, " losing baseball".
Baseball isn't just about the games being played, scrutinized, argued, and judged.. It's about the people who play it. I learned a long time ago that criticism is as common an element to the game as a bat and a ball.
Rickey Henderson will get his coveted spot in Cooperstown later this summer. Voted in on the first ballot, Rickey, arguably, is baseball's greatest leadoff hitter.
Photographs of Citi Field in Queens - home of the New York Mets - taken from Chopper 880 by Tom Kaminski on Monday, February 8, 2009. The bullpens are being reconfigured and the Mets Hall of Fame in under construction.
