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New York Mets signed free agent Eric Gunderson on May 5, 1994.

New York Mets signed free agent Juan Lagares on May 5, 2006.

New York Mets released Ben Johnson on May 5, 2008.

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New York Daily News, September 30, 2018
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Norm Sherry
Born: July 16, 1931
at New York, N.Y.
Died: March 8, 2021 at San Juan Capistrano, Cal.
Sherry
Years with Mets: 1963

63 games. 2 hr, 11 rbi, 0.136
6 runs, 1 stolen bases


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1. Ed Kranepool 1853 Kranepool
2. David Wright 1585
3. Jose Reyes 1365
4. Bud Harrelson 1322
5. Jerry Grote 1235
6. Cleon Jones 1201 Wright
7. Howard Johnson 1154
8. Mookie Wilson 1116
9. Darryl Strawberry 1109
10. Edgardo Alfonzo 1086



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