Good Morning, Mets Fans! Rise and shine, the MLB Draft is this week! Keep tuned to MMO for all draft-related content! Latest Mets News Deesha Thosar of The New York Daily News talked to Cleon Jones about his relationship with the late Jackie Robinson. After racist comments from the CEO of CPI Security, the Columbia Fireflies ended its relationship with the company. Latest MLB News Joey Votto...
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Outside of their selection of right-hander Justin Dunn (Boston College) in the first round of the 2016 MLB Draft, the New York Mets have never made another 19th-overall pick in the 55-year history of the first-year player draft. Dunn, famously traded along with Jarred Kelenic – the Mets’ sixth-overall pick in 2018 – and three other players to Seattle for Robinson Cano and Edwin...
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LaTroy Hawkins embarked on quite the lengthy journey through Major League Baseball, serving 21 seasons and playing on 11 different teams during that time. That journey eventually brought him to Flushing on a minor league contract that, at the time, actually worked out quite well for the rebuilding 2013 Mets. Hawkins played for the Milwaukee Brewers in 2011, appearing in 52 games and posting a...
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Two-thirds of their way through a cross-country road trip, the New York Mets were making headway in their quest for a second consecutive postseason appearance. With their sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals in the Gateway to the West, the Mets sat six games above .500 (28-22) and leapfrogged over Montreal for second place in the National League East. Five-and-a-half games separated themselves and...
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Good morning, Mets fans and happy Sunday! Latest Mets News In the latest Tales by Jay, Retired Mets pitcher and current color commentator Ron Darling shared his insight on the trade that brought him to New York. Ken Davidoff and and Dan Martin of the New York Post relived the dramatic rise and fall of ex-Mets pitcher Matt Harvey. MMA fighter and Mets fan Chris Wade is offering up his 2015...
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The death of George Floyd last week, along with the killing of Michael Brown in 2014, the grand jury decision in the case of Eric Garner in 2015, and the neo-Nazi and white supremacists march in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, have aggravated what many historians call ‘the fault line of America’—racism. These examples do not constitute an inclusive listing of the injustices...
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