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Today is January 3

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New York Mets released Bobby Bonilla on January 3, 2000.

Houston Astros signed Jim Mann of the New York Mets as a free agent on January 3, 2001.

Texas Rangers signed John Thomson of the New York Mets as a free agent on January 3, 2003.

New York Yankees signed Pedro Feliciano of the New York Mets as a free agent on January 3, 2011.

New York Mets signed free agent Taylor Buchholz of the Toronto Blue Jays on January 3, 2011.

New York Mets signed free agent Chris Capuano of the Milwaukee Braves on January 3, 2011.

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01/03/2002
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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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Richard Hidalgo
Born: June 28, 1975
at Caracas, Venezuela
Hidalgo
Years with Mets: 2004

86 games. 21 hr, 52 rbi, 0.228
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Mets Records vs. Opponents in 1969
Opponent W L T Pct.
Montreal Expos 13 5 0 .722
Philadelphia Phillies 12 6 0 .667
St. Louis Cardinals 12 6 0 .667
San Diego Padres 11 1 0 .917
Chicago Cubs 10 8 0 .556
Pittsburgh Pirates 10 8 0 .556
Los Angeles Dodgers 8 4 0 .667
San Francisco Giants 8 4 0 .667
Atlanta Braves 8 4 0 .667
Cincinnati Reds 6 6 0 .500
Houston Astros 2 10 0 .167



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