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You can criticize New York Mets owner Steve Cohen’s approach. You can bemoan his seemingly unlimited budget and post a thread on Twitter about how this is “bad for the game.” But you can’t deny one thing: Cohen desperately wants to win. After signaling in March that he didn’t care about the luxury tax, Cohen has backed up that assertion this offseason. With the reported signing of Carlos Correa on Wednesday, the Mets’ offseason spending splurge jumped to an unfathomable $806.1 million. As a… Source link

Associated Press Yankees’ Chapman ruled out for ALDS after skipping workout Yankees reliever Aroldis Chapman has been ruled out for the American League Division Series after he skipped a mandatory workout, leading to a fine and likely ending the All-Star’s seven-year tenure with New York. Chapman, who has not gotten a save since May 17, had been scheduled to pitch batting practice Friday at Yankee Stadium but the team said he instead was in Miami. After speaking with Chapman, manager Aaron… Source link

The 2022 MLB season is advancing into a brave new world, a 12-team postseason bracket that will decide a champion over the next month. The burst of high-stakes baseball pits eight teams against each other — Guardians-Rays, Cardinals-Phillies, Blue Jays-Mariners, Mets-Padres — for the right to advance. And it’s getting real fast. The new best-of-three wild-card series began Friday with the Padres humbling Max Scherzer and the Phillies turning the tables on St. Louis. The top seeds they… Source link

Robinson Cano’s stint with the New York Mets is officially over. Eight days after designating him for assignment, the Mets released Cano on Sunday. No team was willing to take on the remainder of his contract via waivers, making the 39-year-old second baseman a free agent. Cano has nearly two years remaining on a 10-year, $240 million deal he signed with the Seattle Mariners in 2014. Per the Seattle Times, the Mariners still owe him $7.5 million on the deal while the Mets are on the hook for… Source link

One month into the 2022 MLB season, the league is once again dealing with a change to its baseballs. This time, MLB has reportedly expanded its use of a deadened ball that was partially used last year and begun using humidors at all 30 ballparks. The result is a new dead ball era, with runs down, batting average down and, most noticeably, home runs down. Except in nationally televised games, if New York Mets hitting coach Eric Chavez is to be believed. Speaking with Tim Healey of Newsday,… Source link

The New York Mets are about to enter their first season with a new owner, and they’re definitely acting like it. According to Jon Heyman, the Mets and shortstop Francisco Lindor have agreed to a long-term deal in the final hours before Lindor’s self-imposed opening day negotiation deadline. ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports the pact is for 10 years and $341 million. It will begin in 2022, so Lindor is tied to the Mets for the next 11 seasons. The contract’s total dollar value exceeds fellow shortstop… Source link

Shares in video game retailer GameStop (GME) are on a wild rollercoaster ride, fueled by retail trader geeks on Reddit—and newly minted New York Mets owner Steven A. Cohen is obscurely involved. GameStop shares rose more than 50% last Friday after users on the Reddit forum WallStreetBets (WSB) ganged up to buy the stock in response to a number of short calls, most notably from Andrew Left of Citron Research, who predicted that the stock would drop to $20. (GameStop isn’t the only one: AMC… Source link

Jackie Bradley Jr. on the bases pointing at teammates Mets position players are scheduled to report to spring training in roughly one month and the team still does not have a capable starting center fielder. That’s a problem. In fact, the Mets’ lack of outfield depth on the 40-man roster is so glaring that Guillermo Heredia would likely be the backup center fielder to a miscast Brandon Nimmo if the season started today. The other three outfielders on the Mets’ 40-man roster are Michael… Source link

Hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen is now majority owner of the New York Mets, and that’s apparently not the only thing related to the team he has spent big money on. In an interview with SNY on Wednesday, Cohen revealed that he owns the baseball that infamously bounced through Bill Buckner’s legs in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. The error kept the Mets alive against the Boston Red Sox and allowed them to take the title in Game 7. The moment might be more notable as a piece of Red Sox… Source link