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Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:16:13 PST |
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Lowe finds few takers on the free agent market (SportingNews.com) Derek Lowe didn't look much like a $36 million pitcher when he took the mound against the Cardinals in early...
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NYC gives up baseball stadium luxury boxes (AP)Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration is bowing to critics and will forgo luxury boxes at the new ballparks for the Yankees and Mets. A Bloomberg spokesman said Tuesday the city has worked out a deal to get extra money from the Yankees and put that funding toward the community. A similar agreement is being worked out with the Mets for their new park.
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Mets Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)
The Mets have renovated their pitching staff, highlighted by bringing in Francisco Rodriguez and J.J. Putz at the back end of the bullpen. But they have largely stood pat with their bats.
So far the only turnover among the position players has been letting backup Damion Easley walk as a free agent and swapping backup outfielder Jeremy Reed for Endy Chavez in the 13-player, three-team deal that also landed Putz.
The Mets had a $143 million payroll last season, and team officials suggest it's unlikely to rise in 2009. The team only had a net of $26 million coming off the books after last season, and it cleared another $2 million by trading Aaron Heilman to Seattle. K-Rod and Putz will earn a combined $14 million in the upcoming season.
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Mets will not sweeten offer for Derek Lowe (Yahoo! Sports) Despite knowing that they may very well have to increase their offer to Derek Lowe if they intend to sign him,...
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Hot Stove Daily: Washington Nationals (Yahoo! Sports)The Nats lost in the Mark Teixeira bidding, but it might be a blessing by forcing them to build from within instead.
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Manny maneuvering intensifies (Yahoo! Sports)Cutting ties with Andruw Jones could help the Dodgers afford Manny Ramirez. The Giants loom as competition.
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Lawmaker wants to postpone Mets, Yanks bond vote (AP)A state assemblyman investigating the financing for the Mets and Yankees new ballparks wants to postpone a vote on additional public bonds for the projects. Assemblyman Richard Brodsky released a letter Friday requesting the city Industrial Development Agency to delay the Jan. 16 vote. The teams are asking the city for $450 million more in public bonds to pay for their new parks.
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Unhappy with Mets' offer, Lowe will keep shopping (Yahoo! Sports)According to a source familiar with the negotiations, Derek Lowe is likely to continue shopping for a more...
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Mets will not break bank to add starting pitching (Yahoo! Sports)The New York Mets ' three-year offer to Derek Lowe for slightly more than $36 million makes it clear the...
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Angels agree to terms with Brian Fuentes (AP)Free-agent reliever Brian Fuentes and the Los Angeles Angels reached agreement on a two-year, $17.5 million deal Wednesday, giving the AL West champions a replacement for record-setting closer Francisco Rodriguez. Fuentes gets $8.5 million next season and $9 million in 2010. There's a club option for $9 million in 2011.
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Mets' interest in Andruw Jones sours quickly (Yahoo! Sports) Whatever interest the New York Mets might have had in diminished center fielder Andruw Jones had a rather short...
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A look at what each A.L. team still needs (SportingNews.com)NULL
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Mets hoping to get Lowe for three years (Yahoo! Sports) Now that Mark Teixeira has agreed to terms with the New York Yankees , the New York Mets intend to see whether...
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Mets, Lowe are negotiating, but no deal is imminent (Yahoo! Sports) While rumors throughout Major League Baseball have the New York Mets and free agent right-handed Derek Lowe in...
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Mets deep in negotiations for Derek Lowe (Yahoo! Sports)The Yankees are no longer interested in the free-agent pitcher, clearing the way for the Mets unless the Red Sox step in.
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Yankees have no equal -- in spending, not winning (AP)The Yankees have no equal -- in spending, not in winning. Even before their latest spending spree, the Yankees finished 2008 with a record payroll of $222.5 million, according to figures sent to clubs in recent days by the commissioner's office. The $75 million gap between the Yankees and the next-highest spender, the Boston Red Sox ($147.1 million), was more than the payroll of nine teams.
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Former major league pitcher Dock Ellis dies at 63 (AP) Dock Ellis, who infamously claimed he pitched a no-hitter for Pittsburgh under the influence of LSD and later fiercely spoke out against drug and alcohol addiction, died Friday. He was 63. His wife, Hjordis, said he died at the USC Medical Center in Los Angeles. "It's a tremendous loss to the family," she said.
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Former Dodgers pitcher Willhite dies (AP)Nick Willhite, a hard-throwing left-hander for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1960s, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 67. Willhite, who grew up in Denver and starred in baseball and football at South High, died Sunday at the home of his son Monty in Alpine, Utah, the son said Friday. Jon Nicholas Willhite pitched for the Dodgers from 1963-66, and was a member of their World Series...
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No putzing around: Mets introduce new setup man (AP)J.J. Putz was honest: He would like to be closing games next season rather than setting up someone else's saves. Still, the big reliever insisted he's enthusiastic about his eighth-inning job with the New York Mets, who landed record-setting closer Francisco Rodriguez last week just before acquiring Putz.
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Mets manager Manuel makes pitch for Oliver Perez (Yahoo! Sports)Omar Minaya says it's "50-50" that the New York Mets will re-sign lefty Oliver Perez.
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Mets GM Minaya says Phillies are still the better team (Yahoo! Sports)The New York Mets , even after adding two terrific arms to their bullpen, still aren't as good as the...
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N.L. East rivalry already heating up for 2009 (SportingNews.com) Thanks to Cole Hamels and Francisco Rodriguez, there is another true rivalry in the National League.
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Mets say they are not for sale (AP)Jeff Wilpon's phone rang last Thursday and his father was on the line. "He said, `Bernie was arrested by the FBI.' I'm like, `No way,"' the New York Mets chief operating officer recalled Wednesday. So Wilpon started searching the Internet for details on how his family was allegedly swindled by Bernard Madoff, perhaps out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Mets introduce K-Rod at holiday party (PA SportsTicker)LONG ISLAND CITY, New York (Ticker) -- The New York Mets formally introduced the man they hope will save their bullpen on Wednesday - Francisco Rodriguez.
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Mets still weighing rotation options (Yahoo! Sports)Re-signing Oliver Perez, which New York Mets general manager Omar Minaya called "50-50" at the winter...
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Stottlemyre says Putz can make it in New York (Yahoo! Sports)Mel Stottlemyre was J.J. Putz's pitching coach last season in Seattle and knows enough about the Mets' new...
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Mets considering Wolf as cheaper addition to rotation (Yahoo! Sports) Finding another starting pitcher is the priority for the rest of the winter, according to what the New York...
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K-Rod to Cole: 'Mets are the team to beat' (Yahoo! Sports)Franciso Rodriguez looks like a perfect fit for the New York Mets in their rivalry with the Phillies.
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Baseball salaries should outrage, but don't (AP) It may be strictly coincidental, but that doesn't make it any less interesting. About the same time the New York Mets were spending millions on the closer they so desperately need this week, the owner of the team was facing possible losses of millions of his own as the victim of a fraud scheme even more audacious than the one baseball pulls on its fans.
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