New York Mets News

Tonight, at midnight, is the deadline for teams to offer arbitration to their own free agents, who have until next Sunday, Dec.

Joel Sherman of the New York Post has a New York Mets trade and free agent rumors post on his Hardball blog .

Earlier this offseason, the Mets asked the Rangers about catcher Gerald Laird, just as they did last year, a person familiar with the situation said.

Mets general manager Omar Minaya reached out to the agents for Francisco Rodriguez and Brian Fuentes Tuesday to schedule "future meetings," a source told the Daily News.

Jose Reyes ' job with the Mets is to field his position well and be the catalyst of the offense, not decide which free agents to sign, as he stressed yesterday at Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park ...

So what will that new stadium in Flushing be called next year, anyway? How about John Q. Taxpayer Field? Or Joe Sixpack Park, in honor of all the people paying for it who have no chance of ever sitting in one ...

Francisco Rodriguez's agent won't start detailed discussions with teams until the winter meetings open in Las Vegas on Dec.

The Baltimore Orioles hired Wayne Krivsky as a special assistant to the president of baseball operations on Wednesday .

New York Mets star David Wright, right, shakes hands with Gavin Bramer, 6, a patient at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, as Gavin's father, Sean, watches during Wright's visit to CHKD on Tuesday.

One knows better than to hope those two New York city councillors will succeed in having the name of the New York Mets' new stadium changed to Citi/Taxpayer Field .

Right after the Rockies obtained Huston Street from the A's as part of the Matt Holliday deal, the Mets called and offered Aaron Heilman for the righty.

Former New York Mets outfielder Lenny 'Nails' Dykstra has hammered out a deal with an accounting firm that claimed he owed it more than $100,000.

Dykstra and DDK & Co. sealed the deal in Manhattan federal court Monday. They haven't revealed the terms.

The former All-Star and World Series winner had said in February he was looking forward to fighting the DDK lawsuit because he wanted people to stop trying to rip off ballplayers. He said back then it was 'insane' if DDK thought he would pay $111,000 for a tax return.

The Angels, unwilling to meet Mark Teixeira's desire for a 10-year contract, are in discussions with CC Sabathia and could offer him a contract that approaches the $140-million bid extended to him by the New ...

Sad as it to contemplate on a bitter November night, there will come a sunny day seven or eight months from now when Johan Santana and his New York Mets are going to shut our world champion Philadelphia ...

Mets left fielder and rising star Daniel Murphy was flown back to New York from the Arizona Fall League last night for an MRI exam this morning on his ailing right knee.

Based on reporting, history and hunch, I believe that if some other team is going to beat the Yankees to CC Sabathia, it is going to be the Angels.

The Yanks also have indicated they will put a time limit on their six-year, $140 million offer for Sabathia.

Luis Castillo hopes he'll get the chance to atone for a .245 batting average. "Redemption" was a key word for the Mets with week as prime boo-bird targets Luis Castillo and Aaron Heilman expressed hope they'd ...

In a post to his blog for SI.com , Jon Heyman says there are 'indications,' based on conversations with other team executives, that 'the Mets appear open to trading either Ramon Castro or Brian Schneider .' ...

Despite the shiny new surroundings of Citi Field - if it's still called that by 2009 - next year's Mets could look very similar to last season's club, at least at a couple of crucial positions.