Good Morning. Happy Birthday Willie Blair, Adonis Medina and Grant Hartwig. Mets officially sign Kodai Senga, Steve Cohen promises to keep spending and Eduardo Escobar goes deep in Venezuela.
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Mets officially announce the signing of Kodai Senga. "Senga, 29, spent the last 11 seasons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball with the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks. He went 87-44 with a 2.59 ERA (313 ER/1,089.0 IP) and 1,252 strikeouts (10.3 K per 9) while winning six Japan Series titles since his debut in 2012, including four straight championships from 2017-2020...'Kodai has a championship pedigree and has excelled on the brightest of stages,' Mets Owner, Chairman and CEO Steve Cohen said. 'We are very excited to welcome Kodai to our Mets family in Queens.'"
The also announced that they will formally introduce Kodai Senga in a press conference at 11 a.m. on Monday, December 19 at Citi Field.
Jon Heyman NY Post: Steve Cohen: Cost of keeping promise to Mets fans doesn’t ‘scare me at all’. Jon Heyman's interviews Steve Cohen and gets some inside on the Carlos Correa negotiations (Scott Boras told them they were already 'down the road' with another team) and says this: "As one MLB honcho put it to me, the Mets could lose $200 million a year for 10 years, and it wouldn’t put much of a dent in Cohen’s bank account. From the personal experience of talking to him, I can tell you the steep personal losses wouldn’t faze him one bit."
Bill Madden New York Daily News: Mets, Yankees spreading holiday joy in Big Apple with free-spending offseason. Bill points out that "the other owners, most of whom didn’t want Cohen as part of their fraternity in the first place, were furious when he soared over a record $300 million in only his second year as owner...But unlike most of those owners, Cohen went into this offseason with eight primary free agents...So what was Cohen supposed to do? Watch all the owners going crazy around him, let all his free agents go, and replace them with dregs to avoid going any higher over the $233 million first threshold of the luxury tax?"
Joel Sherman NY Post: Big-spending Mets, Yankees, Dodgers, can still save with young prospects. "The Mets need to add one more bat, unless they don’t because particularly Francisco Alvarez and maybe Brett Baty are ready for impact now — with Mark Vientos and possibly later in the season Ronny Mauricio also potential factors."
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In the Dominican:
Game 1 - Estrellas de Oriente 4 Tigres del Licey 3 - 10 innings (Box Score) Ronny Mauricio 2B 0 for 5, 1 K - hitting .287 with an .803 OPS; Ronny did not play in Game 2;
In Venezuela:
Tigres de Aragua 10 Bravos de Margarita 4 (Box Score) Eduardo Escobar DH 3 for 4, HR(1), double, 3 runs scored, 3 RBIs, 1 K - .333 Batting Avg. with 1.059 OPS;
🔥 ¡EL DE LA PICA! 🔥 HR solitario de Eduardo Escobar trajo una mas para #Tigres. ¡VAMOOOOOS!👏🔥🐅@escobardelapica
— Tigreros Oficiales (@tigrerosoficial) December 17, 2022
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Today in the Australian Baseball League:
Geelong-Korea 5 Melbourne Aces 3 (Box Score)Mets Minor Leaguer Matt O'Neill C 0 for 3, 2 Ks - hitting .258 with an .759 OPS;
MLB.com:
- Swanson agrees to 7-year deal with Cubs (source)
- Dodgers, J.D. Martinez reach 1-year deal (source)
- Don't forget about these 10 free agents
- Judge's 62nd home run ball sells for HOW MUCH?
- Rumors: Dodgers not done after adding J.D.?
- Speedster Hamilton back to White Sox on Minors deal (source)
- Watch out, kid: Blooper delivers devastating stiff arm
- Every uniform number ever, ranked by value
- Next item on Yanks' checklist? Finding a left fielder
- Could Rangers have AL's top rotation?
- Pirates pick up catcher in deal with Hedges (source)
- White Sox add Benintendi on 5-year, $75M deal (sources)
- Mets finalize 5-year deal with RHP Senga
- New Guardians catcher excited for mentor role
- Twins add Gallo on 1-year, $11M deal (source)
MLB Trade Rumors:
- Cubs Finalizing Contract With Dansby Swanson
- Dodgers Sign Bradley Zimmer To Minor League Deal
- Astros Have Some Interest In Jurickson Profar
- Steve Cohen Discusses Mets’ Pursuit Of Carlos Correa: “We Got There Late”
- Pirates To Sign Austin Hedges
- Dodgers To Sign J.D. Martinez
- Mets Sign Kodai Senga
- White Sox Sign Billy Hamilton To Minors Contract
- Red Sox Have Interest In J.D. Martinez Reunion
- Minor MLB Transactions: 12/17/22
- Orioles, Angels, Rangers Have Shown Interest In Rich Hill
- AL East Notes: Blue Jays’ Catchers, Yoshida, Red Sox
- Yankees Sign Michael Hermosillo, Demarcus Evans To Minor League Deals
- White Sox To Sign Andrew Benintendi
- Giants, Nick Duron Agree To Minor League Deal
Yahoo Sports:
- Free agent Dansby Swanson signing with Cubs
- Ranking MLB's top 87 free agents: Who's still available after Carlos Correa signing?
- Frank Gore Jr.’s delightful auntie crashed his interview after a record-breaking bowl performance for Southern Miss
- Philadelphia Flyers vs. New York Rangers - Game Highlights
- Mets, RHP Senga finalize $75 million, 5-year contract
- AP source: Dodgers, DH Martinez agree to 1-year contract
- Where Dansby Swanson contract ranks among largest in Cubs history
- Dodgers agree to a one-year contract with J.D. Martinez
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Today
in Mets History Per
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Born on this date:
- Willie Blair (1965)
- Jeremy Accardo (1981)
- Adonis Medina (1996)
- Grant Hartwig (1997)
Transactions:
New York Mets signed free agent Joe Orsulak on December 18, 1992.
New York Mets signed free agent Brian Bohanon on December 18, 1996.
New York Mets traded Fletcher Bates and Scott Comer to the Florida Marlins for Dennis Cook on December 18, 1997.
Pittsburgh Pirates signed Steve Bieser of the New York Mets as a free agent on December 18, 1997.
Colorado Rockies signed Jim Tatum of the New York Mets as a free agent on December 18, 1998.
New York Mets signed free agent Mike Cameron of the Seattle Mariners on December 18, 2003.
New York Mets signed free agent Matt Wise of the Milwaukee Brewers on December 18, 2007.
New York Mets signed free agent Andy Green on December 18, 2009.
New York Mets traded Jefry Marte to the Oakland Athletics for Collin Cowgill on December 18, 2012.
New York Mets signed free agent Wilson Ramos of the Philadelphia Phillies on December 18, 2018.
Tampa Bay Rays signed Michael Wacha of the New York Mets as a free agent on December 18, 2020.
1992: The Mets sign free agent OF Joe Orsulak.
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