MLB is worried about rampant corruption and fraud
There's been a lot of speculation from baseball writers and wishful thinking from Yankee fans that the Mets will make ace Jacob deGrom available in trade next month. Based on the packages of top rated prospects received for other controllable ace pitchers like Chris Sale and Gerrit Cole in recent years, it's a tempting proposition, [...]
In the early days of baseball, everyone had a cool nickname - Old Hoss Radbourn, Three Finger Mordecai Brown, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Kennesaw Mountain Landis, et al. Modern MLB seems to be lacking in this area and the Mets haven't had any sort of lasting nickname since the 80s teams with Doc Gooden, Nails Dykstra [...]