When the answers are either RA Dickey, Curtis Granderson or Bartolo Colon, you suck at free agent signings. I guess the corpse of Pedro Martinez could go in there too.
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When the answers are either RA Dickey, Curtis Granderson or Bartolo Colon, you suck at free agent signings. I guess the corpse of Pedro Martinez could go in there too.
To be fair, Baerga was a trade, not a FA.
I honestly can't think of a really big FA that went to the Mets and lived up to what they paid him. Carlos Beltran was another mega-FA they signed. He was pretty good for them, but they paid him superstar money and he didn't approach that.
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Yup - it was a long time ago....
Piazza was a trade too and they resigned him that offseason. I guess you could say he was a free agent but really he wasn't truly looking anywhere else.
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Less than a month later, the pitcher who served up that meatball, James Shields, was traded to the White Sox. One of the two players the Padres got in return? None other than Fernando Tatis, Jr.
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Mitchell came into mlb with the Mets. He was traded to SD prior to the '87 season, spent a couple of months with them then was traded to SF.
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Introducing, the Las Vegas Athletics.
When MLB was expanding back in the 90s, there was some contest where you could suggest locations for the 2 new teams (ended up being the Rockies and the Marlins). I can't remember if it was legit or just some cereal box promotion to get kids to draw pictures or whatever. 10 year old me came up with Vegas as one of them. I feel like I should be entitled to some kind of compensation from the Knights, Raiders, and soon to be As.
When MLB was expanding back in the 90s, there was some contest where you could suggest locations for the 2 new teams (ended up being the Rockies and the Marlins). I can't remember if it was legit or just some cereal box promotion to get kids to draw pictures or whatever. 10 year old me came up with Vegas as one of them. I feel like I should be entitled to some kind of compensation from the Knights, Raiders, and soon to be As.
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