Carlos Beltran

The St. Louis Cardinals signed Carlos Beltran to a two year deal. Beltran spent the 2011 season with both the New York Mets & San Francisco Giants. Beltran was the Rookie of the Year in 1999 when he was a member of the Kansas City Royals. He's a six time All Star & three time Gold Glove award winner. Beltran is 83 hits away from 2,000 and has 302 career HRs & 293 SBs.

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RIP Gary Carter

Gary Carter passed away on Thursday at the age of 57. He was an 11-time All-Star and a great teammate. Here is his HOF biography:

Jose Reyes

The Miami Marlins have signed Jose Reyes to a 6 year $106 million deal. In 2011 Reyes played for the New York Mets and led the National League in Batting Average and triples. He also was in the top 10 in OBP, runs, stolen bases & hits. Reyes is a 3-time All Star & has a career stolen base percentage of just a bit over 80%. The one issue with Reyes over the past few years has been his health, so the one question is can he stay healthy? Only time will tell.

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Greatest Coaches Countdown - #32 Joe Torre

Sport: MLB

Stops: Mets (1977 - 1981)

Braves (1982 - 1984)

Cardinals (1990 - 1995)

Yankees (1996 - 2007)

Dodgers (2008 - 2010)

Record: 2,326 - 1,997 (.538 Winning Percentage)

Championships: 4

Fun Facts

1. Torre is the only person to reach 2,000 hits as a player and 2,000 wins as a manager
2. Torre was the NL MVP in 1971

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This Day in Sports History - 5/31/1964

After a nine-inning 5 - 3 San Francisco win on a Sunday afternoon at Shea Stadium, the Giants and Mets play 23 innings in a game that lasts 7 hours and 23 minutes. The tally is 6 - 6 after 7 innings, but the next 15 innings are scoreless. Gaylord Perry pitches 10 shutout innings of relief (the 13th through the 22nd) for the Giants. Larry Bearnarth hurls 7 shutout innings for New York (the 8th through the 14th) and is relieved by Galen Cisco, who allows no runs for 8 innings before surrendering two to the Giants in the 23rd. San Francisco wins, 8 - 6.

This Day in Sports History - 5/20/1999

Robin Ventura of the New York Mets becomes the first player in major league history to hit grand slams in both ends of a double header. In the first inning of the opener, Ventura clears the bases with a homer off the Milwaukee Brewers' Jim Abbott to give his club a 4-0 lead and the Mets hang on to win, 11-10. Facing Horacio Estrada in the fourth inning of the second tilt, he belts grand slam number two and the Mets win again, 10-1. He'll finish his career with 18 grand slams in 188 at-bats with the bases loaded.

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Best by the Numbers - New York Edition

Below is a list of New York athletes according to their jersey number. Please note that there may be players who are better than those listed below not on the list. This is my list, if you want make your own list and put in whoever you'd like.

1. Eddie Giacomin
2. Derek Jeter: The All-Time Yankees Hits Leader
3. Babe Ruth
4. Lou Gehrig: The Iron Horse
5. Joe Dimaggio: Joltin' Joe's consecutive games with a hit record of 56 still stands.
6. Wally Backman: Member of the '86 Mets is now a Minor League Manager for them.
7. Mickey Mantle
8. Yogi Berra
9. Adam Graves
10. Eli Manning: MVP of Super Bowl XLII
11. Mark Messier
12. Joe Namath
13. Don Maynard
14. Theo Fluery
15. Thurman Munson: 3 time Gold Glove winner. AL Rookie of the Year (1970). AL MVP (1976)
16. Frank Gifford: The former Giant was a long-time color commentator for Monday Night Football
17. Plaxico Burress
18. Darryl Strawberry
19. Willis Reed
20. Alan Houston
21. Paul O'neill: Was traded to the Yankees for Roberto Kelly
22. Al Leiter
23. Don Mattingly
24. Ottis "OJ" Anderson: MVP of Super Bowl XXV
25. Joe Girardi
26. Dave Kingman
27. Michael Peca
28. Curtis Martin
29. Leon Washington
30. Willie Randolph
31. Mike Piazza
32. Elston Howard
33. Patrick Ewing: Most Knicks fans are probably still upset he didn't dunk the ball against the Pacers
34. Charles Oakley
35. Mike Richter
36. Jerry Koosman: Was a member of the '69 Mets
37. Casey Stengel
38. Jack Hillen
39. Rick DiPietro
40. Joe Morrison
41. Tom Seaver: Tom had 311 career wins
42. Mariano Rivera: The only current Baseball Player to wear the #42
43. Jeff Nelson
44. Reggie Jackson: Mr. October
45. Tug McGraw
46. Andy Pettite
47. Jesse Orosco
48. Pete Schourek
49. Ron Guidry: Louisiana Lightning
50. Eric Barton
51. Bernie Williams
52. Pepper Johnson
53. Harry Carson
54. Rich "Goose" Gossage
55. Hideki Matsui: MVP of 2009 World Series
56. Lawrence Taylor
57. Mo Lewis
58. Carl Banks
59. Brian Williams
60. D'Brickashaw Ferguson
61. Adam Koets
62. Joba Chamberlain
63. Dewayne Robertson
64. Jim Burt
65. Brandon Moore
66. Pete Kendall
67. Kareem McKenzie
68. Jaromir Jagr
69. Jason Fabini
70. Sam Huff
71. Rick Lyle
72. Osi Umenyura
73. Joe Klecko: Was part of the "New York Sack Exchange" with Mark Gastineau, Abdul Salaam & Marty Lyons
74. Nick Mangold
75. Francisco Rodriguez: "K-Rod"
76. Jumbo Elliott
77. Phil Esposito
78. Wayne Hunter
79. Alexi Yashin
80. Wayne Chrebet
81. Amani Toomer
82. Mark Ingram
83. Santana Moss
84. Joe Jurevicius: Played for the Giants in Super Bowl XXXV
85. Wesley Walker
86. Ken Whisenhunt: The current coach of the Arizona Cardinals was a TE for the Jets
87. Laverneous Coles
88. Eric Lindros
89. Mark Bavaro: Giants TE who went to Notre Dame for college
90. Dennis Byrd
91. Justin Tuck
92. Michael Strahan: Holds the single-season record with 22.5 sacks
93. Petr Nedved
94. Ryan Smith
95. Tom Baldwin
96. Barry Cofield
97. Mathias Kiwanuka
98. Jesse Armstead
99. Wayne Gretzkey: "The Great One's" number has been retired by all of the NHL