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New York Mets signed free agent Scott Copeland on April 17, 2018.

New York Mets claimed Michael Tonkin on waivers from the Minnesota Twins on April 17, 2024.

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Wes Counts on Young Bud To Blossom Into Star SS
New York Daily News, March 1, 1967
As 1967 spring training gets underway, there's going to be a competition for the starting shortstop job. Veteran Roy McMillan is still in the mix, but manager Wes Westrum is touting young Bud Harrelson who, he says, could be another Maury Wills.
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Ron Hodges
Born: June 22, 1949
at Rocky Mount, Va.
Died: November 24, 2023 at Roanoke, Va.
Hodges
Years with Mets: 1973 - 1984

666 games. 19 hr, 147 rbi, 0.240
119 runs, 10 stolen bases


Mets vs. St. Louis Cardinals
1999 Game Results
06/17 Mets 4, Cardinals 3 Leiter (W, 5-5)
06/18 Mets 6, Cardinals 2 Hershiser (W, 7-5)
06/19 Cardinals 7, Mets 6 Isringhausen (L, 1-2)
06/20 Mets 9, Cardinals 6 Reed (W, 5-3)
08/21 Mets 7, Cardinals 4 Mahomes (W, 7-0)
08/22 Mets 8, Cardinals 7 Benitez (W, 2-2)
08/22 Cardinals 7, Mets 5 Hershiser (L, 12-10)
1999 totals: 5 wins, 2 losses



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