Tag: Fred Wilpon

Morning Briefing: Rhys Hoskins Joins Brewers

Good morning, Mets fans!  After years of being a divisional pest, former Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Rhys Hoskins agreed to a two-year, $34 million contract with the Milwaukee Brewers. ESPN’s Jeff Passan was the first to report the agreement.  The deal comes with an opt-out after the first season, according to Passan.  Hoskins, 31, missed last season after suffering a torn ACL during...

OTD 1984: Mets Let Tom Seaver be Claimed by White Sox

How do you let Tom Seaver go? A rhetorical question for most, but the Mets actually had an answer on June 15, 1977 when they traded him to the Reds. Five-and-a-half seasons later, Seaver came back to Queens. In 1983, his 17th big league season, he made 34 starts, posted a respectable 3.55 ERA, and had the third-best bWAR (2.6) for a young team that managed just 68 victories. At age 39 and on the...

Mets Release Statement Regarding the Hot Mic

On Thursday evening, Mets general manager, Brodie Van Wagenen, was caught on a hot mic earlier today criticizing Rob Manfred’s handling of the league wide protests that are going around Major League Baseball. Here is the video in case you missed it earlier: Brodie Van Wagenen then released a statement saying that he misspoke and that the order came from Jeff Wilpon, not Rob Manfred. Rob...

James Dolan Interested in Purchasing SNY

Thornton McEnery of the New York Post reports that New York Knicks and New York Rangers owner, James Dolan, has interest in purchasing SNY from Jeff and Fred Wilpon. According to McEnery, that could require Dolan to also buy the Mets as well. “Jim Dolan buying the Mets sounds crazy at first,” one banker told him. “But he has always wanted to merge [the MSG network] with another...

Cohen Balking At Idea of Wilpons Staying Five Years

Joe Pantorno of AM New York reports that the hurdle keeping Steve Cohen from buying the team is the Wilpon’s insistence of staying in charge of the team for the first five years of the deal. Jeff and Fred Wilpon apparently were hoping to keep decision-making power of the team for five years while using Cohen’s money to help finance the franchise during that time. It was first...

MMO Exclusive: Former Mets’ GM Steve Phillips

Current MLB Network Sirius XM host Steve Phillips served as the general manager of the New York Mets from 1997-2003 after working in their scouting department from 1990-1996. I recently had the chance to talk to the Mets former GM. Phillips works with Eduardo Perez at Sirius, who was most recently the runner up for the Mets managerial position, losing out to Carlos Beltran. Phillips says he has...

Manfred Expects No Issues With Mets Sale To Steve Cohen

Rob Manfred was asked on Wednesday about his knowledge of the Mets’ sale from the Wilpons to billionaire Steve Cohen, as detailed by MetsMerized’s own Michael Mayer. Manfred said that he wasn’t sure when he had heard about the sale to Cohen, but said that he foresees “no governance issues” with regards to getting approved as the Mets’ new owner. That is...

Morning Briefing: Mets Strengthen Defense In Their First Offseason Trade

Good morning Mets fans! The New York Mets strengthened their outfield defense on Thursday as they acquired OF Jake Marisnick from the Houston Astros in exchange for minor league LHP Blake Taylor and minor league OF Kenedy Corona. Mike Petriello of MLB.com put Marisnick’s defensive prowess into perspective by noting that he is tied for ninth in MLB over the last four years in outfielder...

Who Is Mets New Potential Majority Owner Steve Cohen?

While Steve Cohen has generally been an unknown to many Mets fans, he is a very famous person in the financial field inspiring books and televisions series. In fact, if you’ve ever seen the television show Billions, you get a glimpse of who Cohen is as it is a show loosely based on his life. Specifically, it follows the investigation and criminal charges related to his alleged insider...

Report: Steve Cohen Would Immediately Own Over 50% of Mets

According to a report by Mike Ozanian of Forbes, if the Mets sale from Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz goes through, Steve Cohen is expected to immediately own over 50% of the team. Ozanian also notes that while the reported deal with allow Fred to stay as the CEO for five years and Jeff Wilpon still as the COO for five years, his expectation is that the billionaire Cohen wouldn’t allow them to...

Steve Cohen In Talks to Buy Majority Control Of Mets From Wilpons

Yesterday, Brandon Tierney and Tiki Barber alluded on their radio show Tiki and Tierney, the Wilpons were in discussions to sell the Mets. Today, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reports minority owner Steve Cohen is currently in negotiations with the Sterling Partners to increase his investment in the New York Mets. As reported by Reuters in 2012, Cohen purchased a four percent stake in the New...

Tim Bogar No Longer Under Consideration For Mets Manager Job

Joel Sherman of the New York Post reports Washington Nationals first base coach Tim Bogar is no longer going to receive a third interview, and as a result, he is no longer under consideration for the Mets managerial position. This news comes as a surprise as Bogar had reportedly done very well in his two interviews. With Bogar not getting this third interview, it would appear his availability...

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