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San Diego Padres signed Mike Piazza of the New York Mets as a free agent on January 31, 2006.

Baltimore Orioles signed Ronny Paulino of the New York Mets as a free agent on January 31, 2012.

New York Mets signed free agent LaTroy Hawkins of the Los Angeles Angels on January 31, 2013.

New York Mets traded Josh Smoker to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Daniel Zamora on January 31, 2018.

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Cubs Top Mets in 2 Games; Brock HR Hits Bleachers
New York Daily News, June 18, 1962
On the surface, it looks like just another pair of losses for the 1962 Mets, but one of these games has become the stuff of Mets lore: It's when Marvelous Marv Throneberry hit a triple but was called out for failing to touch first base.
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Del Unser
Born: December 9, 1944
at Decatur, Ill.
Unser
Years with Mets: 1975, 1976

224 games. 15 hr, 78 rbi, 0.271
93 runs, 8 stolen bases


All-Time Mets Leaders
Stolen Bases
1. Jose Reyes 408 Reyes
2. Mookie Wilson 281
3. Howard Johnson 202
4. David Wright 196
5. Darryl Strawberry 191
6. Lee Mazzilli 152 Wilson
7. Lenny Dykstra 116
8. Bud Harrelson 115
9. Wally Backman 106
10. Roger Cedeno 105



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