With the signing of Prince Fielder's contract, the one almost as big as he is, there's not much else to analyze before teams gather their belongings and sojourn to Florida and Arizona, where the beginning of an eight-month journey toward the end of another baseball season...

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Infielder Matt Tuiasosopo, whose father and brother played in the NFL, has agreed to a minor league contract with the New York Mets. The 25-year-old hit .226 with 14 homers and 77 RBIs in 439 at-bats last season with Seattle's Triple-A Tacoma farm team. He has a .176 average with five homers and 15 RBIs with the Mariners from 2008-10.

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Congratulations, John! The New York Mets announced on Thursday, January 25, that John Franco, the team's all-time saves leader with 276, will be inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame in a ceremony to take place Sunday, June 3, prior to the team's game against the St.

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Congratulations, John! The New York Mets announced on Thursday, January 25, that John Franco, the team's all-time saves leader with 276, will be inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame in a ceremony to take place Sunday, June 3, prior to the team's game against the St.

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Though the Mets have been careful not to push their young pitchers, they took the first strides toward a promising future this week by inviting top prospect Matt Harvey to major league camp.

Harvey, 22, came on strong at the end of last season, going 5-0 with a 2.68 mark in his final seven starts at Class AA Binghamton. The seventh overall pick in the 2010 amateur draft, he profiles as a top-of-the-rotation starter with a mid-90s fastball and mid-80s slider.

"It was a lot of fun," Harvey said of his 2011 season. "It was a good learning experience. I had some ups and downs, but overall I felt like it was a successful season."

Together with pitchers Zack Wheeler and Jeurys Familia, Harvey is one of the team's three top overall prospects and could make an appearance in...

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Prince Fielder never thought it could happen, but it did. The Prince appeared at a Comerica Park news conference to announce his $214 million, nine-year contract, the fourth-largest deal in baseball history. "It's awesome," Fielder said.

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It might be cold in New York, but when the Mets arrive in Port St. Lucia, Fla., for spring training, things will start to heat up. Traveling to watch the New York Mets prepare for the 2012 MLB season could be a blast, and after a day at the ballpark, you might be famished.

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The New York Mets, once of baseball's free-spending, big-market teams, could wind up with the largest one-year payroll trimming in Major League Baseball history, according to an ESPN.com report. General manager Sandy Alderson told the web site that the team lost $70 million...

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Closer John Franco will be inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame before the June 3 game against the St. Louis Cardinals. Franco saved a Mets-record 276 games from 1990-04 and finished with 424 saves overall, the most by a left-hander. He becomes the 26th member of the Mets' Hall and the first to join since Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Davey Johnson and former general manager Frank...

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Had the Washington Nationals been able to land Prince Fielder, one of the loudest cheers might have come from Atlanta. Such a signing would have put the Braves in a battle with the New York Mets for the lowest payroll … Continue reading ?

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