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Each year, as the Major League Baseball trade deadline comes and goes, many fans are left disappointed, as they watch their favorite player or players shipped to a new city. These days, most of those deals are done to save a little money or to buy into the team's future with prospects.

As general managers across Major League Baseball prepare for the final minutes of the official 2023 trading season, New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman knows, better than most, that one of these deals could effect a franchise for decades to come. On July 31, 2003, Cashman made one of those trades.

In the upcoming mid-season trade bonanza that will begin over the next few weeks, the New York Yankees and Mets will be searching for ways to improve their bullpens. With the second best bullpen in Major League Baseball, the Pinstripes will be fine tuning. With the 11th best bullpen in MLB, the Amazin's will need a few pieces, if they hope to hold off Atlanta in the National League East. From the looks of it, both teams can use a player that used to climb the hill for the Shaker High School Bisons.

He hasn't played for the New York Mets since 1999. Yet, he will make more this season than Mets starting pitcher David Peterson. This is a story that stems from greed. At the time, Mets ownership, led by Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, were invested with their close friend Bernie Madoff. Things were great with Fred and Saul basking in fabricated double-digit returns. So, they made a historically laughable agreement when they wanted to jettison Bobby Bonilla prior to the 2000 season. One that has gone down in sports history as Bobby Bonilla Day.

Shaker grad Jeff Hoffman is having a good season so far, on a bad Cincinnati Reds team. Hoffman has settled into a bullpen roll with an ERA of 1.59.

Joe DeLuca was cut from the Cicero-North Syracuse baseball team as a senior in high school in 2013. Nine years later, he's signed a professional baseball contract.

I could be wrong, but it feels like we're only at the tip of the iceberg. MLB Trade Deadline is this Friday, and teams are hurrying to ready themselves for it.

Going deep into games in today's version of Major League Baseball, I would guess would be a pitcher getting into the 6th inning. Before, if you didn't complete 6 innings, it wasn't considered a quality start. Today, New York Mets starting pitcher Marcus Stroman went "old school." Stroman plunked the first batter of the game and then basically shut the Cincinnati Reds down.

Professional sports broadcasters travel the world, and eat cuisine from different cities on a daily basis. Enter: New York Mets' play-by-play man, Gary Cohen.

One could try to pick a "turning point" in last night's crazy game between the New York Mets and the Cincinnati Reds but it wouldn't be easy. Right from the start, the Mets scored 3 runs in the top of the first off of Reds starter Vladimir Gutierrez. Great start right? Well, New York's starter, journeyman Jerad Eickoff, decided to give the runs all back to Cincinnati, plus one, in the bottom of the first and so the game went from there.

In documents obtained by ESPN's Outside the Lines, records show that all-time hits leader Pete Rose (4,256 hits) bet on baseball as a player extensively.  The documents were seized by authorities in a raid of the home of Michael Bertolini in 1989, showing pages of bets that Rose had made through Bertolini...

Last night in Cincinnati St Louis Cardinals first baseman Matt Adams attempts to make a catch while diving into stands. Instead of Adams coming up with the ball a Reds fan makes the catch. Not sure exactly what takes place next but Adams clearly gives the fan a little shove and the fan CLEARLY gives Adams the finger...