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Mets Payroll Remains Uncertain Despite $50 Million Windfall
In August, it was announced that MLB Advanced Media, known in the industry as “BAMtech,” is being sold to Disney. MLB is making $1.5 billion on the deal. This is important because each team, including...
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John Harper: Mets Will Land Bruce, Nunez and Kintzler
With the Astros hoisting their World Series trophy in front of the Houston faithful on Friday, all eyes are now focused on the offseason. For the Mets, they will have a tall task of returning to the...
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Mets Have $30 Million To Spend This Offseason
Marc Carig of Newsday reports the Mets may have $30 million to send this offseason in order to improve the Major League roster in the hopes of the Mets returning to the postseason next year. Last...
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Mets Are Staring At A Transitional Year In 2018
On Wednesday I had a good discussion with a few of our readers and there seems to be a lot of resentment and disappointment about the revelation that the Mets intend to reduce payroll after a 92 loss...
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Why the Mets Should Be All-In on Lorenzo Cain
Not that they will. But here’s why they should: It’s free agent season, and it looks like Mets fans will be royally disappointed yet again. While other teams vie to acquire the likes of J.D. Martinez...
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Talkin’ Mets: Why the Yankees Don’t Matter
Tonight I discuss why you shouldn’t focus on the Yankees and complain about payroll. Hear me discuss how the Mets actually do have reason to be careful with their spending and it’s just not the owners...
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Mets Missing Out On Relief Market
If the first two days of the Winter Meetings have shown Mets fans anything, it’s that the inferno is raging and Sandy Alderson has stuck to his word of not jumping in. Tuesday saw Bryan Shaw, a...
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Alderson: We’re Relatively Happy Going Home
Photo Credit: AP Photo/Kathy Willens The 2017 Winter Meetings are over and all the New York Mets have to show for it is reliever Anthony Swarzak, cash from the Kansas Royals and a Double-A defensive...
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Steve Phillips Defends Mets Ownership In Twitter Rant
Mets ownership care “far more” than fans believe. That’s what former general manager Steve Phillips expressed in a series of Twitter posts on Wednesday. “The Wilpons’ want to win,” Phillips said. “I...
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Sherman Report: Alderson Has Roughly $10 Million Left to Spend
Joel Sherman of the New York Post deduces from conversations he’s had with people inside and outside the New York Mets organization that general manager Sandy Alderson has roughly $10 million...
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Bah Humbug! Fred Wilpon Bemoans Yankees Spending Spree
Mets owner Fred Wilpon reportedly blew a gasket after learning that the crosstown Yankees had acquired Marlins superstar Giancarlo Stanton, according to a report by Mike Puma of the New York Post....
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MMO Roundtable: What Do You Want Sandy Claus To Bring You?
Photo: Bruce Beck For those of us that have little ones, we have been busy with the preparation for Santa Claus coming on Monday. We had our children make out Christmas lists (i.e. shopping lists), and...
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Yankees Unlikely to Bring Back Frazier
Brendan Kuty of NJ.com reports that the New York Yankees are unlikely to re-sign veteran Todd Frazier given that is current asking price puts them to close to the $197 million payroll luxury tax...
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A Tale Of Two Cities and Other Minutiae
As you know, the Mets Hot Stove is as cold as ice, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot going on within various Mets circles. It’s hard to believe that it was only a year ago, that both the New...
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MMO Fan Shot: The Road To A Mets Postseason Contender
An MMO Fan Shot by Wall Flores It’s certainly been an interesting offseason to date. There’s been much anticipation, though not much in the way of substance for the longest of times. We’ve all been...
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The 2018 All-Free Agent Team
It’s crazy to think that we sit here over a week into February, only a few days away from pitchers and catchers, and we still have this many notable free agents. The free agents will have a spring...
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Jeff Wilpon Still Can’t Figure Out That He’s The Problem
In another rare public showing, Jeff Wilpon spoke to reporters on Sunday, answering questions about the Mets. Wilpon spoke at length about the Mets’ GM search (which has reportedly been in progress...
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Jeff Wilpon: Mets Will Be Aggressive, Didn’t Rule Out Trading Syndergaard
Outside an event he attended alongside manager Mickey Callaway this afternoon, team owner and COO Jeff Wilpon told reporters that the team expects to be aggressive on in improving their roster this...
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Five Things We Learned From Jeff Wilpon on Tuesday
After the New York Mets press conference to introduce the newly acquired Robinson Cano and Edwin Diaz, Mets COO Jeff Wilpon talked to the media extensively. In a video taken by Anthony DiComo of...
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Red Sox Listening On Former All-Stars In Effort To Shed Payroll
According to Bob Nightengale of USA Today, the Red Sox are listening on several former All-Stars in an effort to shed payroll and stay under the luxury tax threshold. The Red Sox are listening on...
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