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Sheffield wants to play, reach 3,000 hits
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Gary Sheffield not only wants to continue playing, he expects to return to being an every-day force at the plate.
"I don't want to be a token player," the 41-year-old slugger told The Post yesterday after a workout in Tampa. "I have to play at a hi...
Mets take 'first' look at veterans
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The Mets continue to look at potential one-year platoon options at first base, reportedly checking in yesterday with well-traveled Russell Branyan and Nick Johnson.
Branyan, who turns 34 next month, is coming off a year in which he hit .251 with a...
Mets eyeing Sheets
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Ben Sheets hasn't pitched in the majors in more than a year, but that will not keep the Mets from keeping an eye on the former All-Star right-hander this winter.
The oft-injured Sheets, who last pitched with the Brewers in 2008, has been sidelin...
Citi Field gets Mets' makeover
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Mets fans have spoken. Saying they had heard their irate followers "loud and clear," the Mets yesterday revealed several changes to Citi Field to better reflect the team's history. As well as renaming areas of the stadium after franchise icons Case...
Serby's Sunday Q & A with... Wally Backman
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The Post’s Steve Serby chatted with the 49-year-old new manager of the Brooklyn Cyclones about the champion ’86 Mets, his ill-fated hiring and firing by the Diamondbacks, and much more.
Q: The 2000 Subway Series — when Roger Clemens threw the jagged...
Mets can't ditch Castillo
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The Mets opened free agency quietly yesterday, stirring only long enough to scotch reports of a potential three-way trade involving Luis Castillo.
The proposed deal, originally reported by the Chicago Tribune, also involved the Cubs and Rangers an...
Mets hire Manuel pal
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The Mets gave Jerry Manuel a minor vote of confidence on the eve of free agency yesterday by hiring his longtime friend Dave Jauss as bench coach.
Jauss, whose relationship with Manuel dates to their time in the Expos' system in the early 1990s, w...
Cubs trade Heilman to Diamondbacks
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Reliever Aaron Heilman has been acquired by the Arizona Diamondbacks from the Chicago Cubs for two minor league prospects.
The 31-year-old former Mets right-hander was 4-4 with a 4.11 ERA in 70 appearances last season, striking out 65 and walking 34...
Holliday, Bay, Lackey top Mets’ shopping list
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The Mets have talked a good game about spending money and retooling this offseason.
Now it’s time to back it all up.
With free agency at hand starting at 12:01 tomorrow morning, all eyes will be on the Wilpons and general manager Omar Minaya to see i...
Amazin's need to make big splash in offseason
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THINK big.
General manager Brian Cashman and the Yankees got the memo last off-season and it resulted in the club's 27th World Championship.
You can be sure the Yankees still are thinking big this offseason, and that they are figuring out ways to...
Nationals hire Davey Johnson as adviser
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WASHINGTON -- After years of working with national teams, Davey Johnson is returning to the Nationals.
The former Mets manager joined the front office of the Washington Nationals on Wednesday. The 66-year-old will work as a senior adviser to general...
Marquis calls Mets 'perfect fit'
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Jeff Francoeur wasn't kidding when he told The Post this summer that free-agent right hander Jason Marquis badly wants to be a Met in 2010.
Marquis backed that up this week, telling The Post he considers the Mets "a perfect fit" while expressing h...
Wally looks as if he could be Jerry's Mets successor
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Having served his time in baseball purgatory, Wally Backman was at KeySpan Park in Coney Island yesterday to be introduced by the Mets as manager of their Single-A Brooklyn affiliate.
Next stop: Citi Field?
With Jerry Manuel on a very short lea...
Alomar Jr. to coach for Indians
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Sandy Alomar Jr. is leaving the Mets to go back to the Cleveland Indians.
The popular former All-Star catcher has been hired by new Indians manager Manny Acta as a first-base coach. Alomar spent the past two years as a catching instructor for the Me...
Backman in Brooklyn
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The Mets officially named fiery fan favorite -- and potential Jerry Manuel replacement -- Wally Backman as manager of their Single-A Brooklyn affiliate yesterday.
Backman, who was practically drummed out of baseball in 2004 when legal and financ...
Backman 'thrilled' to manage Cyclones
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Wally Backman was hired Monday as manager of the Mets’ Brooklyn Cyclones farm team in the New York-Penn League.
A member of the Mets’ 1986 World Series championship team, Backman was hired to manage the Arizona Diamondbacks in November 2004. He was ...
Opportunities knock for Yanks & Mets as others tighten fists
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The GM Meetings lasted just one whole day and parts of two others in a Chicago airport hotel that had all the charm of Eric Mangini.
“By the time you unpacked, you were packing again,” one general manager said. “They [the m eetings] were short and [b...
Alfonzo yearns for one more Amazin' shot
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Chasing a dream is what baseball is all about. The years go by, the body and the work place change, but the mind remains focused on the dream. Edgardo Alfonzo turned 36 this past week. He is three days younger than Johnny
Damon, a year older than De...
Backman to be named Cyclones manager
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The Mets are letting former fan favorite Wally Backman back in the family.
Backman, whose personal problems practically got him drummed out of baseball earlier this decade, is being hired by the Mets to manage the Single-A Brooklyn Cyclones, a sou...
Braves sign Hudson, set up to trade for offense
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ATLANTA -- Tim Hudson agreed to a $28 million, three-year contract with the Atlanta Braves on Thursday, giving the team a wealth of starting pitching and setting up a likely trade to bolster the offense.
Hudson could have returned to the Braves und...
Prospects for a deeper hole very real for Mets
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CHICAGO — Understand that what is at stake for the Mets is not just Omar Minaya’s job or the franchise’s status in 2010.
To say that the Mets are at a crossroads is to undersell this moment in time. It is not just that the Yankees have won another Wo...
Mets ‘absolutely in’ on Figgins
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CHICAGO — Though they are fixated on adding a power bat such as Matt Holliday’s or Jason Bay’s, the Mets are in the words of an involved party “absolutely in” on free agent Chone Figgins.
One Mets official said Figgins would be “hard to fit” into the...
Amazin’s ‘absolutely in’ on Chone
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CHICAGO — Though they are fixated on adding a power bat such as Matt Holliday’s or Jason Bay’s, the Mets are in the words of an involved party “absolutely in” on free agent Chone Figgins.
One Mets official said Figgins would be “hard to fit” into the...
Amazin’s ‘absolutely in’ on fast & versatile Chone
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CHICAGO — Though they are fixated on adding a power bat such as Matt Holliday’s or Jason Bay’s, the Mets are in the words of an involved party “absolutely in” on free agent Chone Figgins.
One Mets official said Figgins would be “hard to fit” into the...
Beltran: Bring back Delgado
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Carlos Beltran knows who he would like to see play first base for the Mets next season, and his name isn't Daniel Murphy.
The All-Star center fielder, appearing at a charity event yesterday in Harlem, put in a strong plug for Puerto Rican countryma...
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