The New York Mets announced that the club has named Omar Minaya a Special Assistant to general manager Sandy Alderson. Minaya, 59, spent the last three years as the Senior Advisor to the Executive Director for the Major League Baseball Players Association. Minaya worked for the Mets from Sept.23, 1997 until Feb. 11, 2002 where he was a Senior Assistant GM who was responsible for overseeing the...
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Kyle Regnault wasn’t drafted and rather started his career with the Worcester Tornadoes of the Canadian-American Association in 2012. He underwent Tommy John surgery after his first two years in college, but was still recovering from it after he was finished. “I was still recovering,” Regnault said in 2015 according to MLB.com. “Tough to get signed when you are only throwing that much. So I went...
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Jeff Passon of Yahoo Sports reports that the New York Yankees are hopeful they can land Pittsburgh Pirates right-handed starter Gerrit Cole without having to include blue chip prospect Gleyber Torres in the deal. Mark Feinsand of MLB.com updated on Friday morning that while the Yankees still have interest in Cole that any reported momentum on Thursday night may have been overstated and that...
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No one has played more games in a New York Mets uniform than the 1853 that Ed Kranepool did from 1962 up until 1979. Up until 2012, Kranepool led the Mets in hits with 1,418 before third baseman David Wright passed him. “I had a 30-year slump,” Kranepool joked as he talked to Wallace Matthews of The New York Times, “and David caught me.” That turns out to be the only light-hearted part of the...
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On this date in 2009, the New York Mets had signed knuckleballer R.A. Dickey to a minor league deal with an invite to major league camp. Dickey was coming off a season for the Minnesota Twins in which he had a 4.62 ERA, 1.62 WHIP and pitched almost exclusively out of the bullpen. The former 1996 first round pick had pitched in the Texas Rangers, Milwaukee Brewers, Seattle Mariners and Twins...
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