Mets News and Breakfast Links 2/9/2022

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Photo by Trevor Williams via twitter

Good Morning.  Baseball Lockout - Day 69. Happy Birthday to Mookie Wilson, Todd Pratt, and Danny Muno.  The Mets bring back Old Timer's Day, Ex-Met Gerald Williams passes away, Joel Sherman has a great idea to end the Lockout, and Pete Alonso thanks Pandemic Hospital workers.    

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As we had yesterday on Mack's Mets, the Mets are bringing back Old Timer's Day, Saturday, August 27th at 5 PM.







NY Post: Mets’ lengthy Old-Timers’ Day roster might be missing Lenny Dykstra. 

NY Post: Dykstra responded to The Post’s story on Twitter via a reply that included a GIF of a smug and strutting “Hollywood” Hulk Hogan from his NWO days and the caption: “@Lenny Dykstra You should show up with Wally Backman like ….” Dykstra then offered the idea of a different type of get together with, him, Backman and fellow ’86 teammates Doc Gooden, Darryl Strawberry and Kevin Mitchell. “Could you imagine if me, Wally, Doc, Straw and Mitch all just said ‘f–k that’ and instead partied in the parking lot with fans?”






Metsmerized Online My Top 50 Mets Prospects: 50-46 Features Multiple Intriguing Arms:  Michael Mayer provides backgrounds on No. 50 Christian Scott, RHP; No. 49 Nick Meyer, C; No. 48 Willy Taveras, RHP; No. 47 Levi David, RHP; No. 46 Robert Colina, RHP;

Baseball America: Mets Shortstop Ronny Mauricio Reaches Next Level. "In September, the Mets finally elevated the 20-year-old to Double-A Binghamton, where he hit .323/.364/.452 in eight games. “He needed to go to the next level,” a major league talent evaluator said. “That kind of pushed him. He felt he was left behind when (Brett) Baty left and (Mark) Vientos (skipped the level) and he was stuck in Brooklyn. Once he changed gears, he started turning it up.”

FanGraphs: deGrom-Theoretical Optimality in Two-Strike Counts

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NY Post: MLB, union regroup with labor talks set to resume after owners’ meetings. "...the commissioner launched this three-day get-together by huddling with many of his industry’s owners regarding myriad matters...The players, meanwhile, are holding strategy sessions in Florida and Arizona...Negotiations are expected to resume, if not improve, after the conclusions of the meetings at the end of this week. It is the owners’ turn to make a counterproposal after the players declined their request to turn to a third-party mediator."

Joel Sherman NY Post: Rob Manfred must use his power to offer players an olive branch. "I would pick service time-manipulation. Why? Because the commissioner (and all the owners) should care as much about the best players being in the majors as the union. It is competitively and ethically the right thing to do. And with MLB (like all sports) doing a full hug of gambling, do you really want to open the can of not employing your best players? "








AP Sports: Prosecutors: Former Angels employee lied after Skaggs’ death. "Eric Prescott Kay’s lead defense attorney said his client didn’t give Skaggs drugs that night and there was no way to know whether the fentanyl Kay is accused of providing was the cause of Skaggs’ death in Texas....Defense attorney Reagan Wynn told jurors Kay entered Skaggs’ hotel room in a Dallas suburb on June 30, 2019, to find the pitcher sitting at a table with lines of powdery substances in front of him. Wynn said Skaggs told Kay a drug Kay didn’t recognize was something he had shared with Matt Harvey, who pitched for the Angels that season".

AP Sports: Ventura: ‘Natural reaction’ to suspect burly players of PEDs. “I think that would just be a natural reaction,” he said Tuesday. “I think even when there was testing, somebody showed up big, I think people still questioned that. So I don’t see any reason why that would change.”

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The All-Sandy Koufax Team: Players who dominated most during their peak years


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Today in Mets History Per Ultimatemets.com: 

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New York Mets signed free agent Clint Hurdle on February 9, 1987.

Anaheim Angels signed Jason Middlebrook of the New York Mets as a free agent on February 9, 2004.

New York Mets signed free agent Chan Ho Park on February 9, 2007.

New York Mets signed free agent Frank Catalanotto of the Milwaukee Brewers on February 9, 2010.

New York Mets claimed Jason Pridie on waivers from the Minnesota Twins on February 9, 2010.

Centerfield Maz:  Mookie Wilson: Mets Team Hall of Famer & 1986 World Series Hero (1980-1989) Coach (1996-2011). 

Centerfield Maz: Mookie Wilson & Bill Buckner: From the 1986 World Series Game Six to A Friendship. 

Centerfield Maz: Todd Pratt: 2000 N.L. Champion Mets Back Up Catcher (1997-2001). 

Centerfield Maz: Remembering Mets History (1999): NLDS Game #4: Todd Pratts Dramatic Walk Off HR Clinches Series.

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