Eppler, Billy
Buck Showalter and Bob Melvin Face Off in Mets-Padres Series
SAN DIEGO — They were hired with much fanfare over the off-season and have received rave reviews around Major League Baseball for their early work with their new teams. Both have won three Manager of the Year Awards and, should things keep up, would be strong contenders in this year’s voting as well. But before […]
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Buck Showalter Introduced as Mets Manager
In most any other year, Buck Showalter’s first order of business upon taking over a new team would be to call players and fire off text messages. In baseball’s off-season, that is the easiest way to start getting to know players before spring training starts in mid-February. But with the sport frozen because of a […]
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Max Scherzer and the Mets Agree on Massive Three-Year Deal
After the Mets’ billionaire owner, Steven A. Cohen, flexed some of his financial might over the weekend with three new additions, he made his splashiest move yet. On Monday, the Mets and Max Scherzer, a three-time winner of the Cy Young Award, agreed to a record-setting deal that would pair him with a two-time winner […]
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Mets Bolster Offense With Starling Marte, Eduardo Escobar and Mark Canha
In Billy Eppler’s last general manager job, with the Los Angeles Angels, his roster had a few big stars with exorbitant contracts, but not much else. The Angels collapsed under that lopsided structure, and a lack of depth has also stymied his new team, the Mets. “Personally, that’s one of my bigger takeaways over the […]
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Hiring Billy Eppler as GM Is a ‘Relief’ for Mets Leadership
There are lots of reasons to be encouraged by the hiring of Billy Eppler, who was finally introduced on Friday as the Mets’ new general manager. As a pro scouting director, he helped win a World Series for the Yankees. As a general manager, he signed Shohei Ohtani for the Los Angeles Angels. At 46, […]
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