New York Mets News and Rumors
Whither Jason Bay?: Determining the market for an injury-plagued 34-y…Jorge Arangure Jr., nytimes.com Determining the market for an injury-plagued 34-year-old outfielder who is coming off the worst season of his career. |
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General Managers Looking at Replays and Call-UpsNov 7, 2012
Jorge Arangure Jr., nytimes.com While the most exciting item of the day was Jason Bay's separation from the Mets, general managers spent the majority of Wednesday's meetings debating possible rule modifications to instant replay and September call-ups. |
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The Mets, of all teams, made the biggest news on the first day of the GM meetings Wednesday by issuing a press release that stated they had “agreed to part ways” with Jason Bay. It was a nice way of saying they had released the poor, luckless left fie… |
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Reyes honored at ALS fundraiser in New YorkNov 7, 2012
Mark Newman, MLB.com Jose Reyes was honored Wednesday night at the 18th annual Lou Gehrig Sports Awards benefit dinner along with Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey and sports commentator Mary Carillo. |
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Attention on A-Rod after Bay's buyoutNov 7, 2012
Richard Justice, MLB.com The Mets moved aggressively to make the best of a difficult situation with the remaining years on Jason Bay's contract. Would the Yankees consider it with Alex Rodriguez's deal? |
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Dickey talks Cy Young, future at Gehrig AwardsNov 7, 2012
Mark Newman, MLB.com Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey was honored Wednesday at the 18th annual Lou Gehrig Sports Awards benefit dinner that raised more than $800,000 for the ALS Association. |
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Art Howe: I Should Manage The Blue Jays Because I Am Not As Fat As Philip Seymour HoffmanNov 7, 2012
Jack Dickey, deadspin.com Quick. Come up with reasons Art Howe should manage the Toronto Blue Jays. I have a few. The Blue Jays need a manager. Art Howe is a manager, maybe even a good one—he has a career 1129-1137 record, which isn't so bad given that he spent time running the … |
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Bay, Mets agree to end contract one year earlyNov 7, 2012
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) -- The New York Mets and Jason Bay agreed to terminate their contract a year early, a deal that makes the outfielder a free agent and allows the team to spread out the remaining $21 million it owes him. |
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Jack Dickey, deadspin.com One never likes to cheer a breakup, even if the pair was wrong for each other from the get-go, and even if the pair deeply, habitually wounded one another. A breakup is a failure. It's pathetic. It's time wasted, and we have so little of it on this eart… |
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Mets sign righty reliever Burke to Minors dealNov 7, 2012
Joey Nowak, MLB.com The Mets and right-handed reliever Greg Burke agreed on a Minor League contract with an invitation to Spring Training on Wednesday. |
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Samer Kalaf, deadspin.com Mets outfielder Lucas Duda broke his right wrist last month while moving furniture in his apartment, becoming another bullet point in a list of dumb baseball injuries, even just in 2012. More » |