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• New update emerges on when Mets owner Steve Cohen could make final David Stearns decision

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• O's Alonso: No final chat with Mets brass in Dec.
Pete Alonso said Friday that he didn't have a final conversation with Mets owner Steve Cohen or president of baseball operations David Stearns before signing with the Orioles....2026
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• Mets need to change Carlos Mendoza’s cruel purgatory — one way or the other

Steve Cohen, or David Stearns with the blessing of the Mets owner, needs to fire Carlos Mendoza or provide a no-wiggle-room vote of confidence....2026
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• The bulk of the Mets’ struggles don’t fall on Carlos Mendoza

Mets honchos David Stearns and Steve Cohen seem supportive of manager Carlos Mendoza. But baseball’s longstanding tradition of scapegoating the less powerful is a powerful thing....2026
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• What Mets' Carlos Mendoza has heard from Steve Cohen amid brutal losing streak

The Mets are suffering through their longest losing streak in decades....2026
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• Carlos Mendoza reveals ‘supportive’ texts with Steve Cohen as manager feels heat of Mets struggles

Mendoza, a longtime coach with the Yankees before taking the manager job in Queens, knows what happens when the losing doesn’t end soon enough....2026
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• Strider takes improvements on the road as Braves look to mess up Mets again

Photo by Jeff Robinson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Spencer Strider stymied the Mets in Atlanta, and now he can do so in New York Once again, it’s me, doing game coverage for a Spencer Strider start. There are worse things in the world, truly. So, how about Strider, huh? He came back, he wasn’t quite himself, he missed another month with a hamstring issue, came back again, was learning...2025
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• Juan Soto is bringing juice back to the Subway Series

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The best young hitter in baseball took the Yankees to their first World Series in 15 years before moving across town in free agency. Now, he returns to the Bronx as two division leaders clash. On December 7, 2023, the New York Yankees swung a blockbuster trade with the San Diego Padres. It cost a pretty penny, with future Cy Young contender Michael King le...2025
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• 2025 NL East Season Preview: New York Mets

Photo by Rich Storry/Getty Images The Mets have spent a lot and have done just okay in the process, and it remains to be seen whether 2025 will be different. While the Dodgers’ unabashed spending spree this offseason has drawn ire and thinkpieces in equal measure, it behooves us to remember that they’re not alone in their Scrooge McDuck-ness — the Mets are also right there. Steve Cohen’s c...2025
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• MLB storylines to watch as Spring Training gets underway

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images There is no shortage of intrigue as baseball returns for the 2025 season. The Super Bowl is now more than a week in the rear view mirror and, for Eagles fans like myself, I’m still not done re-watching the highlights of their beatdown of the Chiefs. Not even close. But this week, full squad spring training workouts began around Major League Basebal...2025
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• A view from the basement of the NL East

Brad Penner-Imagn Images Sizing up the top three teams in the NL East as the Nationals look to make up ground on the divisions elite For the Nationals to get back into contention, they are going to overtake some of the titans of the National League in their own division. The NL East is an unforgiving landscape, where teams like the Mets, Phillies and Braves come into most seasons with cham...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The rich get richer

Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images The Dodgers make yet another impact signing and the Yankees, of all teams, complain. Some other minor signings and a look at who is left on the market. Seattle is where bats go to die. Good morning. The rich get richer as the Dodgers have signed reliever Kirby Yates to a one-year, $13 million deal. Bradford Doolittle asks if you split the Dodgers ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 27, 2025

Photo by Jason Hanna/Getty Images GO CHIEFS! Alden Gonzalez and Jesse Rogers at ESPN talk to players like former Royals All-Star Mike Sweeney about Ichiro Suzuki. Sweeney: ”He leads off the game with a line drive to left-center field for a base hit and he gets over to first base, and all I could think about was when I was in Japan playing against the Japanese all-stars, anytime that an Am...2025
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• Here’s why the Braves won’t reset the luxury tax

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Also, a look at how much budget the Braves may have to spend this offseason. Despite GM Alex Anthopoulos stating that payroll will go up in 2025 and clarifying that the luxury tax will not be a deterrent in their ability to spend, some fans have speculated that the Atlanta Braves might opt to stay under the luxury tax anyways after a ...2024
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• Biggest needs heading into Christmas for each National League team

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images The Mets and Cubs have made big moves, but several other contenders still need to strike. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! December is a time full of giving and receiving gifts to celebrate the holidays. Now that the winter meetings have passed, only a few days remain before Christmas and turning the page to 2025. Each team has question marks wort...2024
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• Juan Soto’s contract surpasses LeBron and Tom Brady’s combined career earnings, and 6 other wild facts

Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images Juan Soto’s massive new contract with the Mets, in perspective. Sunday night the news the baseball world was waiting for finally broke. Juan Soto had agreed to a market-shattering ten-year deal with the New York Mets, for $765 million. While the top-line number exceeds what the Los Angeles Dodgers signed Shohei Ohtani for last year (Ohtani’s contract hit t...2024
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• Juan Soto’s contract surpasses LeBron and Tom Brady’s combined career earnings, and 6 other wild facts
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• An unconventional Cubs Convention: Fans, friendship and love for a baseball team
Danny Rockett A summary of happenings at the first Cubs Con in three years. I am a part of the greatest community in the world: I am a Cubs fan. Cubs fans can be from anywhere and can be anyone. You can be a part of any religion, race, or gender and the bond that ties us all together is a love of the Chicago Cubs. Whether you’re an autograph hound, a fantasy league stats nerd, gear head, o...2023
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"Team owner Steve Cohen and president of baseball operations David Stearns each addressed the situation…"

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"Even the morally misguided New York Mets owner Steve Cohen went on record saying he sees his investment in his team as philanthropy to the city and the fan base."

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"Leave it to Mets owner Steve Cohen to find a way to keep the spotlight on his franchise, even when the biggest game of the NFL season will be unfolding."

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"Robinson Cano decision proves Steve Cohen is Mets’ most valuable weapon"

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"Steve Cohen fumes at ‘unproductive’ Mets as season spirals"

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"An on-again, off-again negotiation between Steve Cohen and the New York Mets finally resulted in the franchise's sale to the billionaire Monday, pending the approval of the Major League Baseball club owners"

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"Steve Cohen, a billionaire hedge fund manager who owns 4% of the New York Mets, is negotiating an agreement to acquire up to 80% of the team."

• MLB News: Steve Cohen Isn’t Scared of Dodgers’ ‘Formidable’ Spending

New York Mets owner Steve Cohen may have lost out on the Kyle Tucker sweepstakes, but he isn't backing down from spending big on high-level free agents....2026
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• Steve Cohen found Edwin Diaz bolting Mets for Dodgers ‘perplexing’

Cohen still seemed to be searching for an answer for how things worked out, as Edwin Diaz signed a three-year, $69 million contract with Dodgers....2026
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• Why Kyle Tucker signing could lead to a Mets-Yankees showdown

Another Brian Cashman/Hal Steinbrenner vs. David Stearns/Steve Cohen battle for a top free agent may be on tap....2026
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• Major Updates on NY Mets Pursuit of Kyle Tucker: Year Added to Offer, Steve Cohen Now Involved

A new report has offered a major update on the NY Mets pursuit of Kyle Tucker, including the addition of a fourth year....2026
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• Mets Have Checked In On Kyle Tucker
According to Jon Heyman of the New York Post, the Mets have “checked in” on free agent outfielder Kyle Tucker. The four-time All-Star and two-time Silver Slugger winner is MLBTR’s top free agent. Much speculation has linked Tucker to the Mets this offseason, and it isn’t difficult to see why. According to RosterResource, Steve Cohen’s…...2026
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• Mets have most at stake for rest of season as concerns mount entering trade deadline

Steve Cohen has committed himself in spirit, personality and finances for these Mets not to be those Mets....2025
• Some thoughts about Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts and the upcoming CBA negotiations

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Tom Ricketts is one of the drivers of the looming management versus labor conflict in Major League Baseball. Or is he? It’s worth thinking about. Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts is one of the drivers of the upcoming management versus labor conflict in Major League Baseball. I’ve long thought so, just extrapolating from his actions and the tone of his public ...2025
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• Juan Soto’s Yankees regret might be fueling slow start with Mets

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images Juan Soto’s Mets tenure has gotten off to a rocky start. Juan Soto is in month No. 2 of a 180-month contract signed by the future Hall of Fame outfielder with the New York Mets, and by all accounts, it’s not going great. Here are some headlines from this week: Juan Soto is ‘very, very blum’ inside Mets’ clubhouse Juan Soto responds to hus...2025
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• New York Mets owner Steve Cohen sounds off on Juan Soto’s early-season power outage

Mets owner Steve Cohen opened his checkbook like never before for Juan Soto this winter, committing to a $765 million contract....2025
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• Outside The Confines: No deal for Vlad Jr. and the Jays

Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images The face of the franchise will become the face of free agency this fall. Happy Wednesday BCB friends! We have some interesting stories ahead for you today, chief among them being that one of baseball’s biggest extensions isn’t happening. The Toronto Blue Jays and Vladimir Guerrero Jr failed to come to an agreement on extension terms. As a result, Vlad Jr,...2025
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• A view from the basement of the NL East
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• Vinnie Pasquantino has a point about the first baseman market

Vinnie Pasquantino #9 of the Kansas City Royals follows the ball during the ninth inning against the New York Yankees during Game Four of the Division Series at Kauffman Stadium on October 10, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Why hasn’t anyone signed Pete Alonso? Last week, Kansas City Royals first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino appeared on The Chris Rose Rot...2025
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• What the Dodgers are doing is great for them. It might not be great for baseball’s future.

Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images And some thoughts about the Cubs, too. Late Thursday, Jeff Passan posted this 3,000-word epic that’s mostly about the Dodgers’ pursuit of Roki Sasaki. It’s worth reading for that alone, but Passan also touches on whether what the Dodgers are doing is good for the sport, and adds a few things about the Cubs and comments made over t...2025
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• The best hitter at Kauffman Stadium the past five years is a free agent - should the Royals sign him?

Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images Should the Royals pursue Joey Gallo? When I started exploring potential free agents the Kansas City Royals might target with less than a month until pitchers and catchers report, the usual suspects came to mind. Outfielder Anthony Santander seemed like a great fit, especially with reports suggesting he might settle for a short-term deal this offseason. Thir...2025
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• MLB Winter Meetings: Juan Soto, Draft Lottery and more

Photo by Taylor Baucom/MLB Photos via Getty Images From the Soto Sweepstakes to the MLB Draft Lottery and some new Hall of Famers, Dallas will feature a busy winter week for baseball. For over a century, the Major League Baseball Winter Meetings have been circled on the league’s calendar as the highlight of the long dry spell before spring training. Just over a month after the end of the W...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Juan Soto tops the free agent market

Photo by J. Conrad Williams Jr./Newsday RM via Getty Images But what will it take to sign him? There are plenty of big names out there who have now hit the free agent market, but likely none is bigger than Yankees’ slugger Juan Soto. Soto, agented by Scott Boras, is sure to fetch a tidy sum, and plenty of teams are already making overtures to try and get him on their roster. Al will have m...2024
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• A Game of Groans

Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Much like the smash hit TV series about a quest for power, the 8th season of the White Sox rebuild is letting fans down. But even after a historically bad start, showrunner Jerry Reinsdorf appears keen to do nothing but watch it burn. Chaos is a Ladder Jerry Reinsdorf — the beleaguered owner of the Chicago White Sox — grimaced in disgust as he watched his team ...2024
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• Latest On Padres’ Franchise Sale
Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Seidler family was nearing a sale of the Padres to private equity mogul José E. Feliciano and his wife Kwanza Jones. That’s expected to come with an eye-popping $3.9 billion valuation that’d shatter the prior high for a franchise sale ($2.4 billion in Steve Cohen’s 2020 […]...2026
• Strider takes improvements on the road as Braves look to mess up Mets again
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• Juan Soto’s Yankees regret might be fueling slow start with Mets
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• MLB storylines to watch as Spring Training gets underway
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• Outside The Confines: No deal for Vlad Jr. and the Jays
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• MLB’s 7 most desperate teams to win 2025 World Series

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images For these seven teams, the stakes are higher than high. Every team wants to win the World Series. Yes, even the bad teams, the ones that don’t appear to be trying, want to win it all. They’d love nothing more than to luck into a Cinderella season and host a parade, but for some teams, hoisting the World Series trophy is more than an idle desire. It’s an obs...2024
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• Juan Soto’s contract surpasses LeBron and Tom Brady’s combined career earnings, and 6 other wild facts
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• Outside The Confines: Play Ball!

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Jordan Montgomery is a Snake at last. Decisions are made concerning who makes the Opening Day rosters. Looking ahead to the 2024 season and other news from MLB. I’m not going to have any Shohei Ohtani links today. I think we’ve covered that story well enough in other pieces on this site. If you have read something that you really think th...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ son of abridged too far

Getty Images Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, cooked just the way you like them. How is it all going to come down? Speculation is all we have to cling to, and it’s a slippery rock to hold. There’s no scrying in baseball. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB ba...2023
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• Cubs ownership and management is pretty good — consider these 6 other cautionary tales

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports You can criticize Cubs leadership at times... but it could be a whole lot worse. It’s a parlor game, really, or what used to be called that: Complaining about the ownership and/or front-office management of your favorite baseball team. Cubs fans are no different than any other in this regard; rightly or wrongly, Tom Ricketts and Jed Hoyer get their share ...2023
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• Cohen reaches an agreement to purchase Mets
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• Wilpons in talks to sell controlling stake in Mets
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• Investor looks to increase Mets' ownership stake
Steve Cohen, a billionaire hedge fund manager who owns four percent of the New York Mets, is negotiating an agreement to acquire up to 80 percent of the team....2019
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• Steve Cohen Reportedly Ending Negotiations To Buy Mets
New York billionaire Steve Cohen “has decided to walk away” from his bid to buy an 80 percent share of the Mets from the Wilpon family, Thornton McEnery of the New York Post reports. Rumors of the deal falling through surfaced earlier today on Barstool Radio (Twitter link), and McEnery now reports that Cohen is…...2020
• Robinson Cano decision proves Steve Cohen is Mets’ most valuable weapon

The Mets’ most lethal weapon is not one of their two Hall-of-Fame arms, or the lumber carried to the plate by any of their hitters....2022
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• Mets swiftly signing Justin Verlander shows they’re in different league than Yankees
The Winter Meetings haven’t even been going on for 24 hours. The New York Mets already made the biggest splash of the offseason thus far. Justin Verlander will now be atop the rotation in Queens alongside Max Scherzer after signing a two-year, $86 million contract. Steve Cohen has officially established himself and the Mets, for […] Mets swiftly signing Justin Verlander shows they̵...2022
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• New York Mets have so much money they’re running a Super Bowl commercial
The New York Mets are pulling the ultimate sports crossover during Super Bowl LVII, running an ad for the upcoming baseball season. Leave it to Mets owner Steve Cohen to find a way to keep the spotlight on his franchise, even when the biggest game of the NFL season will be unfolding. After an offseason […] New York Mets have so much money they’re running a Super Bowl commercial - FanSi...2023
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• Steve Cohen fumes at ‘unproductive’ Mets as season spirals

The billionaire owner slammed the Mets "unproductive" lineup as the team's losing streak hit five with a 3-2 loss to the Giants on Tuesday night....2021

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• A Game of Groans
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• An unconventional Cubs Convention: Fans, friendship and love for a baseball team
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• Mets owner Steve Cohen blasts Dodgers, Edwin Diaz responds

Mets owner Steve Cohen responds to Edwin Díaz signing with the Dodgers, questions the decision, and declares New York ready to compete with Los Angeles for a potential playoff showdown....2026
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• Mets owner Steve Cohen says club won't have a captain as long as he's in charge
New York Mets owner Steve Cohen likes the vibe in a revamped clubhouse, and says he'll never have a captain in charge of that scene. “As long as I’m owning the team, there will never be a team captain,” Cohen said in his first meeting with reporters at spring training Monday. My view is the locker room is unique....2026
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• The David Stearns and Steve Cohen truths revealed by this Mets offseason

There are two things that are completely self-evident about the Mets right now. One of them was addressed and summarized by David Stearns late Thursday afternoon in a 10-word sentence that should probably grace the letterhead of every piece of official Mets business going forward until Opening Day: “We were not going to run back......2026
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• Juan Soto’s Yankees regret might be fueling slow start with Mets
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• Mets brain trust building track record that’s crushing longstanding franchise stigma

And with this version of the Mets — the one whose tentpoles are Steve Cohen, David Stearns and Mendoza — perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that Holmes sure looks like the starting pitcher that the Mets brain trust insisted he was....2025
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• MLB insider gives bold prediction on New York Mets’ playoff chances after Steve Cohen’s billion-dollar offseason

New York Mets owner Steve Cohen poured nearly $1 billion into contracts this offseason following the team's unexpected NLCS run last year....2025
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• 2025 NL East Season Preview: New York Mets
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• Braves News: Chris Sale to start Saturday, shortstop trade options, and more

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Tuesday. We are days away from the first spring training game, as the Atlanta Braves open up play in the Grapefruit League on Saturday against the Minnesota Twins. Chris Sale is penciled in to start. To get you through until then, we’ve got shortstop trade options, 2025 regression candidates, and more. More Braves N...2025
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• Steve Cohen addresses possibly naming a Mets captain

Despite whispers over the past few seasons that a captain could be named, the Mets haven't had an official one since David Wright retired in 2018....2026
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• Cohen: Will never be a captain while I own Mets
Steve Cohen said he will never name a captain as long as he owns the Mets, ceasing speculation that the team would one day bestow the title upon Francisco Lindor....2026
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• Mets Have Checked In On Kyle Tucker
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• Pete Alonso reportedly makes major Scott Boras decision amid Mets, Blue Jays whispers

It was reported Tuesday night that Mets owner Steve Cohen "was back in conversation with" representatives for Alonso regarding a potential reunion....2025
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• LIV Golf to replace Greg Norman with former 76ers, Devils chief executive

Greg Norman looks on during the LIV Golf Andalucia event in July 2024. | Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images Multiple reports have confirmed that Greg Norman will no longer serve as CEO of LIV Golf. After a months-long search, LIV Golf has settled upon its new chief executive officer. Multiple reports indicate that Scott O’Neil, who held the same title for the Philadelphia 76ers and the New...2024
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• Report: Owner Woody Johnson’s son has been “de facto GM” of the New York Jets

Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images Typically, the below is not a tweet that I would bother writing an article on. However, the New York Jets are not in typical times, as the organization seems to be in a complete free-fall into madness in recent weeks. In light of that, anything seems possible, so who knows and maybe this is at least somewhat accurate? Given the size of the claim, it’s pr...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Braves take 3-1 series lead over Astros in World Series

Photo by Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 2021 - The Braves take a 3-1 lead in the series with a 3-2 win at Truist Park in Game 4. Dylan Lee begins the game as the opener but is quickly replaced by Kyle Wright who escapes a bases loaded jam in the first inning with just one run scored. Atlanta cut Houston’s lead to 2-1 in the sixth and then got back-...2024
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