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New York Mets purchased Dave Eilers from the Milwaukee Braves on August 18, 1965.

New York Mets traded Brett Butler to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Scott Hunter and Dwight Maness on August 18, 1995.

New York Mets claimed Yolmer Sanchez on waivers from the Boston Red Sox on August 18, 2022.

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Moses Offers the Dodgers Site in Queens for Stadium
New York Daily News, April 19, 1957
Walter O'Malley already had his sites set on Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles, but New York City made a last-ditch effort to keep the Dodgers, offering them the site where Shea Stadium would one day be built.


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Mark Johnson
Born: October 17, 1967
at Worcester, Mass.
Johnson
Years with Mets: 2000 - 2002

134 games. 8 hr, 33 rbi, 0.215
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Mets vs. St. Louis Cardinals
2016 Game Results
07/26 Cardinals 3, Mets 2 Syndergaard (L, 9-5)
07/26 Mets 3, Cardinals 1 Colon (W, 9-5)
07/27 Cardinals 5, Mets 4 Familia (L, 2-2)
08/23 Mets 7, Cardinals 4 Gsellman (W, 1-0)
08/24 Cardinals 8, Mets 1 deGrom (L, 7-7)
08/25 Mets 10, Cardinals 6 Lugo (W, 1-2)
2016 totals: 3 wins, 3 losses



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