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Alfonzo enjoyed the single greatest game in team history, going 6-6 with three home runs and five RBI on August 30, 1999 at Houston. Mike Piazza Bobblehead – Saturday, August 25 at 1:10 p.m. vs. Astros Mike Piazza will be featured as the final...
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Sheffield put up monster numbers. He was traded before the 1998 season to the Los Angeles Dodgers in a blockbuster deal. On May 14, 1998, Sheffield was traded along with Manuel Barrios, Charles Johnson, Bobby Bonilla, and Jim Eisenreich to the Los...
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Former New York Mets closer John Franco, right, embraces former Mets catcher Mike Piazza after Franco threw out the first pitch to Piazza in a Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony before the New York Mets baseball game against the Chicago Cubs at Citi Field in... View Photo »
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He’s a forward-thinking manager, very intellectual and a great evaluator of talent
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Napoli had filed for $11.5MM, while the Rangers countered with $8.3MM, as MLBTR's Arbitration Tracker shows. Napoli, 30, earned $5.8MM in 2011 and obtains the second-highest raise any third or fourth-time eligible position player has obtained (trailing...
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The Home Run Apple was so much a fixture of Shea that it had to be saved and placed on display at the new stadium. Jim Cooper/Getty Images In May of 1980, the Mets decided on a new marketing campaign. The slogan was "the magic is back". As part of this...
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With Todd Hundley smacking 41 homers the previous season and another 30 in ’97, there was virtually no chance Pratt would ever crack the starting lineup. When Hundley got injured in 1998, the Mets opted to use Tim Spehr and Alberto Castillo behind the...
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PHOENIX, AZ - JULY 10: U.S. Futures All-Star Gary Brown #22 of the San Francisco Giants is greeted in the dugout by manager Mike Piazza after scoring a run in the fifth inning during the 2011 XM All-Star Futures Game at Chase Field on July 10, 2011 in Phoenix,... View Photo »
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And it will be a lightning rod of a ballot that also includes Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Mike Piazza and Craig Biggio. Schilling already knows what the theme of the 2013 ballot, results of which will be announced in January, will be. "The...
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I’ll admit what bugs me most about the man is that when it came out that illegal stuff was delivered to his house, it blamed it on his wife. Only a scum of the highest magnitude do that. Aren’t you supposed to be protecting your wife above all else? I...
About Mike Piazza
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Michael Joseph Piazza (pronounced /pʰiˈɑːʦə/ or /pʰiˈɑːzə/) (born September 4, 1968 in Norristown, Pennsylvania) is an Italian-American former Major League Baseball catcher. He played in his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Florida Marlins, New York Mets, San Diego Padres and the Oakland Athletics. He is a 12-time All-Star. Piazza is often... Full Article
