Mets in Talks to Sell 80% of Team to Investor Steve Cohen The owners of the New York Mets are in talks to sell up to 80% of the Major League Baseball team to billionaire Steve Cohen, who is already an investor in the club, according to person familiar with the matter. The transaction would…
DetailsMarlins Notes: Park Dimensions, Outfield, Catcher, Villar, Aguilar Changes are coming to Marlins Park, as the team announced Wednesday that the fences will be moved in and new synthetic grass will be installed prior to Opening Day 2020. “In going through the process of evaluating the playing surface at Marlins Park in 2019, we set out…
DetailsSep 20: Ripken ends streak SEPTEMBER 20, 1998 | BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – Cal Ripken didn’t play for the Baltimore Orioles on this date in 1998, the first time he was not in the lineup in over 16 years. It marked the end of his 2,632 consecutive game streak, a record Ripken held since breaking Lou…
DetailsMLBTR Live Chat: 12/4/19 Click here to join tonight’s chat with Connor Byrne of MLBTR. Source: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/12/mlbtr-live-chat-12419.html
Details2020 Competitive Balance Draft Pick Order Major League Baseball has determined the orders of Competitive Balance Rounds A and B for the 2020 amateur draft, Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com reports. Comp Round A takes place after the first round of the draft, while Comp Round B goes down at the conclusion of the second round.…
DetailsSep 18: Sometimes it is over SEPTEMBER 18 | VARIOUS CITIES – So you’re down because your team is out of the race, maybe not mathematically but, what are the odds? Well, not good, but it has happened. Here are some historic comebacks, and collapses, and where the teams stood on this date — September 18th.…
DetailsSteve Cohen’s looming Mets takeover changes everything The words seem coldly ironic now, almost 40 years later. But early on the Friday afternoon of Jan. 25, 1980, they had the desired effect. Until this moment, Fred Wilpon had been an anonymous millionaire. Now, he had a stake, and a say, in the New York Mets,…
DetailsSteve Cohen In Talks To Increase Investment In Mets The Mets announced this afternoon that minority owner Steve Cohen and the Sterling Partners (owner Fred Wilpon’s company) are negotiating a deal in which Cohen “would increase his investment in the New York Mets.” The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal first reported the news just minutes before the…
DetailsOrioles acquire four pitchers for Bundy The Orioles picked up right-handers Kyle Bradish, Isaac Mattson, Zach Peek and Kyle Brnovich on Wednesday in a deal that sent Dylan Bundy to the Los Angeles Angels. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20191204&content_id=312076784&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
DetailsMets fans can’t stop celebrating possible Wilpons sale The Mets may have just won the offseason, at least according to their disgruntled fanbase. Wednesday’s news that the Wilpon family is in negotiations to sell 80 percent of the Mets to hedge-fund billionaire Steve Cohen set off fans’ joy on social media. While negotiations are ongoing,…
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