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Today is January 2

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New York Mets signed free agent Mike Birkbeck on January 2, 1992.

Boston Red Sox signed Frank Viola of the New York Mets as a free agent on January 2, 1992.

Chicago White Sox signed Barry Jones of the New York Mets as a free agent on January 2, 1993.

Random Article from the Ultimate Mets Scrapbook

Met Star Turns Singer: Bud Harrelson Doesn't Do Anything Halfway
Kingsport Times-News (Kingsport, TN), December 26, 1971
Bud Harrelson performs at a country-western bar in Woodridge, New Jersey. The article includes a photo of Buddy strumming on a guitar. (This explains why Bruce Stark later pictured Bud playing shortstop with a guitar on his back in his full-color caricature in the Daily News Sunday comic section.)
Tags: Bud Harrelson.


Randomly selected Met Player

Kevin Mitchell
Born: January 13, 1962
at San Diego, Cal.
Mitchell
Years with Mets: 1984, 1986

115 games. 12 hr, 44 rbi, 0.275
51 runs, 3 stolen bases


All-Time Mets Leaders
Shutouts
1. Tom Seaver 44 Seaver
2. Jerry Koosman 26
Jon Matlack 26
4. Dwight Gooden 23
5. David Cone 15
6. Al Jackson 10 Koosman
Ron Darling 10
8. Sid Fernandez 9
Bob Ojeda 9
10. Gary Gentry 8



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