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Mookie Betts, Jacob deGrom avoid arbitration, accept one-year deals
AL MVP Mookie Betts, NL Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom and major league home run champion Khris Davis reached high-priced one-year deals to avoid salary arbitration, while slugger Nolan Arenado and pitchers Gerrit Cole, Luis Severino and Aaron Nola were among 15 players ...
The New York Mets and catcher Travis d'Arnaud has agreed to a one-year, $3,515,000 deal to avoid salary arbitration, according to published reports on Wednesday. That is a raise of $40,000 for d'Arnaud, who played in just four games last season before sustaining a torn ...
Former major leaguer Kazuo Matsui said Thursday he feels "destined" to end his storied career with the Seibu Lions, where he started his professional baseball journey 25 years ago. In a news conference at MetLife Dome to announce his retirement, the 42-year-old player-coach said he ...
Kazuo Matsui, the first Japanese infielder to be signed by a major league team, will draw the curtain on a career that has spanned 25 years at the end of this season, the Saitama Seibu Lions announced Wednesday. The 42-year-old, a seven-time All-Star and four-time ...
Jay Horwitz, longtime Mets media relations boss, moving to new role with team
The New York Mets are transferring longtime media relations boss Jay Horwitz to a new role as vice president of alumni public relations and team historian. Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon announced Horwitz's job change Wednesday at a news conference that was more of ...
Dodgers hurler Kenta Maeda yields winning blast to Mets' Brandon Nimmo
Kenta Maeda suffered his second loss as a reliever Monday after allowing a three-run home run to snap a ninth-inning tie in the Los Angeles Dodgers' 4-2 loss against the New York Mets on Monday. Maeda (8-9), who was relegated to the Dodgers' bullpen last ...
Mets off to fast start, but season is a long one
Old MLB axiom: Don't believe what you see in April. Meaning, of course, that fast starts by previously downtrodden teams are often fool's gold. Most times they merely precede June swoons. Or May meltdowns. The New York Mets, after getting off to a team-record best start, are ...
The New York Mets said nighty-night to the Dark Knight. Matt Harvey, once regarded as a premier pitcher who could have joined Tom Seaver and Dwight Gooden among the Mets' greats, refused a minor league assignment and will be designated for assignment Saturday. The 29-year-old lost ...
The shear power of Bryce Harper was startling. The late comeback by the Washington Nationals? Yep, that was shocking, too. Harper hit an eye-popping, broken-bat homer early, then grounded a key single during a six-run surge in the eighth inning that sent the Nationals past ...
Ed 'The Glider' Charles, third baseman of 1969 World Series champion Mets, passes away at 84
Ed Charles, the third baseman known as "The Glider" who helped lead the Miracle Mets to the 1969 World Series title with his veteran guidance and poetry, has died. He was 84. Charles died Thursday in New York, the J. Foster Phillips Funeral Home said. Born ...
Journeyman Norichika Aoki agrees to return to Swallows: source
Norichika Aoki, who became a free agent after he was released by the New York Mets in late October, has agreed to return to the Tokyo Yakult Swallows where he started his professional career, a source said Tuesday. According to the source, the 36-year-old outfielder ...
