This is the January 29, 2013 news archive. View today's Mets news and rumors.

New York Mets News and Rumors

Daniel Murphy, Mets agree on 1-year, $2.925M deal

CNNSI.com

NEW YORK (AP) -- Second baseman Daniel Murphy and the New York Mets have agreed to a one-year contract worth $2,925,000, avoiding salary arbitration.

Cash Kruth, MLB.com

Catcher Brian Schneider, who caught 13 years with the Expos/Nationals organization, Mets and Phillies, has decided to retire, according to his hometown newspaper, the Allentown Morning Call.

Andrew Keh, nytimes.com

Scott Atchison, 36, pitched 51 1/3 innings out of the Boston bullpen last season and finished the season with a 1.58 earned run average.

Anthony DiComo, MLB.com

General manager Sandy Alderson and assistant GM John Ricco flew to Houston last week to have dinner with Michael Bourn and his agent, Scott Boras, according to the New York Post. But the meeting "was more a getting-to-know-you session than a dollar…