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Boo. Good in first halves of seasons.
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Sean Reid-Foley and Tommy Hunter are back on minor league deals.
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When Justin Verlander was born… Davey Johnson had not yet managed in the major leagues. Bill Parcells had not yet coached an NFL game. Dan Marino had not yet thrown an NFL pass. Herschel Walker had not yet played a USFL down. Julius Erving had not yet won an NBA crown. Thriller had not yet yielded a No. 1 single. Barack Obama was a college senior. Gaylord Perry, Carl Yastrzemski, Johnny Bench and Bobby Murcer were all loosening up in Spring Training. Carl Hubbell, Charlie Gehringer and Lefty Gomez were living Hall of Famers.
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Jesse Orosco had appeared in 80 of an eventual 1,252 major league games.
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When Justin Verlander was born, the most-watched television series finale ever was that of The Fugitive, because the last episode of M*A*S*H was eight days from airing.
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11 years, $300 mil, no trade.
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Michael Perez was the last Met to wear 35. It's been the preferred number for assignment to transients since Jacob Rhame, and it ain't like Rhame was a long-hauler: Jared Hughes, Trevor Hildenberger, Brandon Drury, Colin Holderman, Perez (h/t MBTN/UMDB for the refresher). Adam Wilk was 35 for one infamous Harvey-suspended day between Logan Verrett and Rhame. You have to back to Dillon Gee for a 35 with a modicum or more of distinction. Between Max and Justin, Mets may be setting a trend with starters older than their uniform numbers.
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Somehow seems appropriate to have a bit of news regarding a Met with Tiger stripes in his background.
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Who's gonna break it to Jordany Valdespin that he's now JV2?
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JAKE & JILT Ex-Met ace deserts New York for uphill battle in 68-win Texas — and a pail of $185 million
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The Dodgers followed the conventional wisdom, trading Pedro Martinez for Delino DeShields. Rules and exceptions and all that, but that trade looms nearly 30 years later in the greater baseball consciousness as a cautionary tale about always trading pitchers for hitters.
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Judging by the reaction every time his name was invoked at today's Queens Baseball Convention, Jacob deGrom does not have much of an answer for Janet Jackson's query, "What have you done for me lately?"
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I'd have preferred they'd moved on from Alomar at exactly the right moment in his career and declined his option for 2003, allowing Fonzie to glide back to second where he would have partnered with and mentored young Jose and made the Met version of the Places in the Heart montage wherein everybody who died on Sally Field comes back to life and sings together in church whether or not they were harmonious or even knew each other in life a reality. Not a great signing for the Giants, as they didn't really get classic Edgardo, though in 2003, once he stopped pressing to prove he was worth his contract, he provided sufficient protection for Bonds en route to SF's division title. Then again, Fonzie's decline and how it might have played out if he'd stayed with the inevitably crummy Mets of that period is covered by my "I don't care" card. I used to be friends with somebody who'd end every discussion of how the Mets were ultimately better off not being stuck with this or that player's contract with "I don't care." It's a handy card to carry.
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Alfonzo to SF was the killer for me. Cooled my Met ardor for a year-plus. Blamed management rather than the player. I was pretty sore about Reyes leaving from a Wilpon perspective. Couldn't fully enjoy the early surge of 2012 without him; watching 2015 highlights felt incomplete without my mentally photoshopping him in for a while. They were my two favorite position players ever, Nos. 3 and 4 in my personal pantheon behind Tom and Doc. When Jose retired, I decided I was done having a Favorite Player, but allowed deGrom to nominally fill that role the last few years. Jacob's departure feels like Straw's: just business, no matter how stunning it is from a strict "but he's a Met!" instinct.
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Somewhere between the Jacob deGrom news and the Jimmy Yacabonis news, the Friday news dump brings us SZA in a Mets jacket as she promotes her musical guest spot on this week's SNL.
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Killed the idea that pitcher wins mattered all that much. Birthed or at least gave contemporary credence to the idea that lineups never hit for one particular pitcher. If not exactly THE best Met pitcher I ever experienced, then the best Met pitching I ever experienced on a start-in, start-out basis for the longest, most consistent stretch. Guy who recognized a deal when he saw it. I'll miss having a Met who almost automatically came up in MLB discussions as the best at what he does. (Diaz's presence notwithstanding.)
