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Today is May 22

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New York Mets released Gil Hodges on May 22, 1963.

New York Mets traded Preston Wilson, Geoff Goetz and Ed Yarnall to the Florida Marlins for Mike Piazza on May 22, 1998.

New York Mets released Scott Strickland on May 22, 2005.

New York Mets released Jorge Sosa on May 22, 2008.

New York Mets sold Keon Broxton to the Baltimore Orioles on May 22, 2019.

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Random Article from the Ultimate Mets Scrapbook

Big Deal! Mets Trade 4 for Fregosi; Angels Get Ryan, 3 Prospects
New York Daily News, December 11, 1971
At the time it looked like it was the "Jim Fregosi trade" but history now knows it as the "Nolan Ryan trade". One hundred years from now, this will still probably be among the worst trades in Mets history.
Tags: Jim Fregosi, Nolan Ryan.


Randomly selected Met Player

Joe Pignatano
Born: August 4, 1929
at Brooklyn, N.Y.
Died: May 23, 2022 at Naples, Fla.
Pignatano
Years with Mets: 1962

27 games. 0 hr, 2 rbi, 0.232
2 runs, 0 stolen bases


Mets vs. San Francisco Giants
2005 Game Results
06/04 Mets 5, Giants 1 Glavine (W, 4-5)
06/05 Giants 6, Mets 3 Ishii (L, 1-4)
06/05 Mets 12, Giants 1 Benson (W, 4-2)
08/26 Mets 1, Giants 0 Trachsel (W, 1-0)
08/27 Giants 2, Mets 1 Glavine (L, 10-11)
08/28 Giants 4, Mets 1 Benson (L, 9-6)
2005 totals: 3 wins, 3 losses



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