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In the team's history (1962–), the Mets have employed 12 general managers (GMs). [1] The GM controls player transactions, hiring and firing of the coaching staff, and negotiates with players and agents regarding contracts. [2] The longest-tenured GM is Frank Cashen, who held the position for 11 years (1980–1990). [1]
This list does not reflect the highest annual salaries or career earnings, only the top 100 largest contracts and thus is largely limited to athletes in team sports and auto racing. Athletes in individual sports , such as golf , tennis , table tennis , boxing , kickboxing , and MMA , are not employed by a team and usually earn money primarily ...
Bonilla signed with the New York Mets during the 1991–92 offseason, becoming the highest-paid player in the league at the time, earning more than $6 million per year. However, he struggled to live up to expectations with the Mets (which made the contract the subject of much criticism) [5] and throughout the rest of his career. He played with ...
Center fielder Harrison Bader and the New York Mets finalized a $10.5 million, one-year contract on Friday. Bader gets a $9.5 million salary and a $1 million signing bonus, payable within 60 days ...
Dwight Gooden’s No. 16 and Darryl Strawberry’s No. 18 will be retired by the New York Mets in separate pregame ceremonies next year honoring players who were keys to the team’s last World ...
José Bernabe Reyes (born June 11, 1983) is a Dominican -American former professional baseball infielder. He played, most notably at shortstop, in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Miami Marlins, Toronto Blue Jays, and Colorado Rockies . Reyes is a four-time MLB All-Star.
The active New York Mets filled two more holes Thursday, signing utility infielder Joey Wendle and reliever Austin Adams to one-year contracts. Wendle, an All-Star in 2021 with Tampa Bay, gets a ...
The nickname "Mets" was adopted: being a natural shorthand to the club's corporate name, the "New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc.", [18] [19] [20] which hearkened back to the "Metropolitans" (a New York team in the American Association from 1880 to 1887), [1] and its brevity was advantageous for newspaper headlines.