The Mets had a quiet spring training, with a major league-high 16 players from the organization participating in the World Baseball Classic. 

The Mets had a quiet spring training, with a major league-high 16 players from the organization participating in the World Baseball Classic. 

After consecutive late-season collapses that allowed the Phillies to overtake the Mets in 2007 and '08, New York general manager Omar Minaya addressed the bullpen by adding a pair of closers -- Francisco Rodriguez and J. 

--OF Gary Sheffield, released earlier in the week by the Tigers, agreed to sign with the Mets on April 3. 

After consecutive late-season collapses that allowed the Phillies to overtake the Mets in 2007 and '08, New York general manager Omar Minaya addressed the bullpen by adding a pair of closers -- Francisco Rodriguez and J. 

--OF Gary Sheffield, released earlier in the week by the Tigers, agreed to sign with the Mets on April 3. 

 

After consecutive late-season collapses that allowed the Phillies to overtake the Mets in 2007 and '08, New York general manager Omar Minaya addressed the bullpen by adding a pair of closers -- Francisco Rodriguez and J. 

--OF Gary Sheffield, released earlier in the week by the Tigers, agreed to sign with the Mets on April 3. 

The Mets had a quiet spring training, with a major league-high 16 players from the organization participating in the World Baseball Classic. 

Gary Sheffield plans to go for No. 

Citi Field was nearly empty when New York Mets manager Jerry Manuel popped out of the dugout and strolled toward the first-base line. 

The fields were sloppy, the view was sweet. 

Gary Sheffield plans to go for No. 

This season is sure to end differently than the last two for the New York Mets.