On January 7, 1992, Tom Seaver was elected to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame along with Rollie Fingers. Seaver was elected with 98.8% of the vote in his first year of eligibility, which was the highest percentage for any player at the time (Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter, and Ken Griffey Jr. have since been elected with higher percentages). So much has been written about Seaver, especially...
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It has been 37 days since MLB’s owners locked the players out, in a move Commissioner Rob Manfred termed “bad for business”, but a step to “drive the process forward for a new agreement now.” The two sides have not met since mid-December, and have not discussed core economic issues since December 1. So far, the lockout has not achieved its desired endpoint....
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On January 5, 2004, Frank Edwin “Tug” McGraw, one of the most colorful players in Mets’ history, passed away from brain cancer at 59 years of age. McGraw is most famous for coining the term ‘Ya Gotta Believe!” in 1973, during an M. Donald Grant address to the team when the Mets were mired in last place in the National League’s eastern division, and then made...
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Happy New Year! The Mets are putting together a dynamic and exciting team for the 2022 season. We need the lockout to end at some point in January, so the Mets (and all teams) can round out their roster and get operations underway in mid-February for what should be a fun campaign in 2022. MMO’s Michael Garaffa took a look back at ten of the most exciting Mets wins of the 2021...
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As noted on MMO, representatives from MLB and the MLB met on December 16 for the first time since the owners imposed an offseason lockout on December 1 when the owners and players were not able to come to a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. Jesse Rogers of ESPN.com reports that, as expected, the meeting on December 16 centered on non-economic issues, such as scheduling, grievance procedures,...
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