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Today is June 17

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New York Mets traded Kevin Kobel to the Kansas City Royals for Randy McGilberry on June 17, 1980.

New York Mets traded David Weathers and Jeremy Griffiths to the Houston Astros for Richard Hidalgo on June 17, 2004.

New York Mets released Tomas Nido on June 17, 2024.

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Castillo has team feeling glove-sick
New York Daily News, June 13, 2009
In one of the more infamous plays in Mets history, Luis Castillo dropped what was about to be a game-ending pop fly, but instead became an immediate Yankee victory.
Tags: Luis Castillo, Francisco Rodriguez.


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Claudell Washington
Born: August 31, 1954
at Los Angeles, Cal.
Died: June 10, 2020 at Orinda, Cal.
Washington
Years with Mets: 1980

79 games. 10 hr, 42 rbi, 0.275
38 runs, 17 stolen bases


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