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SI.com: Should the Mets Trade For This Underrated First Baseman? "However, the Mets can look at the Tampa Bay Rays and get the perfect stopgap: first baseman Yandy DÃaz. DÃaz, 33, has been one of baseball's most underrated hitters since coming to Tampa Bay in 2019. Over the past six seasons, he's slashed .289/.374/.440 with 142 doubles, 74 home runs, 313 RBI, 352 runs scored, and a 133 wRC+. Last season, DÃaz hit a solid .281/.341/.414 with 14 long balls, and in 2023, he won the AL batting title with a .330/.410/.522 slash line along with a career-best 22 home runs and 163 wRC+."
USA Today: 30 moves for 30 teams: One player every MLB club should sign to start 2025. Gabe Lacques reccomends that the Mets sign A.J. Minter, free agent LHP.
Last year as a 30 year old A.J. Minter went 5 and 4 with a 2.62 ERA in 39 games, 34.1 innings. He required surgery late last season. Per MLB.com: "The surgical procedure required performing a microfracture on the hip. Minter dealt with some hip and lower back discomfort over the past few years, but not to the extent he did this season. His average four-seam velocity dropped from 96.6 mph in 2022 to 95.8 mph in 2023 to 94.5 mph this year. That average dropped all the way down to 93.5 mph during the five August appearances he made before opting to have surgery."
Mets.com: Here are the best players of the 2000s ... so far. Ex-Met Robinson Cano makes the List as well as "SS: Francisco Lindor, 49.6...Lindor is coming off a season for which he finished runner-up in NL MVP voting after posting an .844 OPS with 33 home runs and 29 steals while playing stellar defense at short. With his great all-around play, he helped lead the Mets to the NL Championship Series. Overall, Lindor is a four-time All-Star and two-time Gold Glove Award winner (he also won the Platinum Glove Award in 2016) in 10 seasons. He’s two homers shy of 250 for his career, as well as 15 steals shy of 200."
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in Mets History Per
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- Ed Bauta (1935)
- Roy Staiger (1950)
- Marlon Anderson (1974)
- Casey Fossum (1978)
- Nathan Jones (1997)
Transactions:
New York Mets signed free agent Braden Looper of the Florida Marlins on January 6, 2004.
New York Mets traded Vance Wilson to the Detroit Tigers for Anderson Hernandez on January 6, 2005.
Tampa Bay Rays signed Mike DiFelice of the New York Mets as a free agent on January 6, 2008.
Cleveland Indians signed Scott Atchison of the New York Mets as a free agent on January 6, 2014.
New York Mets signed free agent Taylor Teagarden of the Baltimore Orioles on January 6, 2014.
Washington Nationals signed Daniel Murphy of the New York Mets as a free agent on January 6, 2016.
New York Mets traded Scott Manea, Ross Adolph and Luis Santana to the Houston Astros for J.D. Davis and Cody Bohanek on January 6, 2019.
New York Mets traded Kevin Plawecki to the Cleveland Indians for Walker Lockett and Sam Haggerty on January 6, 2019.
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2016 |
In his fourth year of eligibility, the BBWAA elects Mike
Piazza into the Hall of Fame with his name appearing on 83% of the writers'
ballots. Many consider the 12-time All-Star, best known for his time with the
Dodgers and Mets, one of the most accomplished offensive catchers in the
game's history but unfounded rumors of using illegal performance-enhancing
drugs derailed his early Hall of Fame candidacy. |
1999: Surgery makes the news as the New York Mets prize rookie outfielder Jay Payton undergoes arthroscopic surgery on his left shoulder.
2012: The Mets ink SS Ronny Cedeno.
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