The New York Mets officially extended a qualifying offer to Neil Walker on Monday. If accepted, the Mets would be on the hook for $17.2MM for Walker’s services in 2017. Walker is coming off back surgery that ended his season prematurely in 2016, though when healthy he was quite the contributor to this team’s offense. General Manager, Sandy Alderson, speaking at the GM meetings...
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The New York Mets today announced that single game tickets will go on sale Friday, November 18 at 10:00 am. The Mets Promotional Dates and Giveaway dates have also been announced for the 2017 Season. The upcoming season will feature the return of the popular weekend promotions of Free Shirt Fridays, Super Saturdays and Family Sundays as part of a promotional schedule that will feature more than...
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Dexter Fowler had himself a nice 2016 season with the Chicago Cubs, contributing regularly to the team that would go on to win the World Series. The Cubs intend on offering Fowler a qualifying offer according to Jon Heyman of FanRag Sports. Fowler though is not expected to accept the $17.2MM qualifying offer. This could be detrimental to anyone looking to sign him as the center fielder will now...
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The Major League Baseball collective bargaining agreement is set to expire on December 1. All has been quiet regarding this issue as the two sides look to hammer out a deal without any stoppages. MLB and the MLBPA have been hard at work to come to terms on a deal as both sides know they have way too much to lose with a work stoppage. There have been talks of some changes we may see come to...
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Talkin’ Mets returns to the airwaves on Sunday as I set-up the offseason by giving my state-of-the-union and answering Hear me talk about what the Mets can learn from the Cubs championship season, how Sandy Alderson can take a lesson from Steve Phillips 1998 offseason when it comes to Yoenis Cespedes and what free agents intrigue me. I round out the show with fans’ questions about...
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