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The San Diego Padres continued to rebuild their bullpen. With a number of their top relievers in free agency, San Diego is close to adding South Korean reliever Woo Suk Go, who could serve as the teams closer. The deal was first reported by Jon Heyman of the New York Post. 

The 25-year-old has pitched in parts of seven seasons with the Korean Baseball Organization. He has operated as the closer for the LG Twins for the past five seasons. In four of those five seasons, Go has had an ERA below 4.00. 

Go had a record of 3-8, an ERA of 3.68, 15 saves, and 59 strikeouts in 44 innings last season. 

Latest Mets News 

The Mets removed the white shadow on the logo of their black hats. See the change here. 

Darryl Strawberry opened up in a podcast interview with baseball writer Erik Sherman.

Latest MLB News

The Arizona Diamondbacks are signing free agent catcher Tucker Barnhart to a minor league contract, which includes an invite to spring training, per Robert Murray of Fansided.

The Cincinnati Reds announced the contract of Frankie Montas and the decision to designate catcher Austin Wynns for assignment. 

Fernando Tatis Jr. became at least the 2nd player since 2006 to homer in a Dominican League game on his birthday, per Sarah Langs of mlb.com. 

Latest on MMO 

The Metsmerized team gave its Mets New Year’s resolutions in our latest roundtable. 

Brian Wright makes the case for Adrian Gonzalez to be enshrined in Cooperstown.

Patrick Glynn profiles both Kenley Jansen and Chris Martin as trade candidates. 

The Mets Madness recap of the 2022 and 1999 Mets from Jack Ramsey.

At Mets Minors, they talked about the best starting pitchers from the 2023 season.

On this Date in Mets History

2000: The Mets officially released Bobby Bonilla on this day 24 years ago. With his release came decades of deferred payments, which will not stop until 2035. 

Birthdays: Mark Dewey (59), Luis Rivera (60), Jim Dwyer (74), John Sullivan (83)