Tim Redding News

CHICAGO - Despite believing the bidding for outfielder Matt Holliday will exceed their appetite, Mets officials intended to meet with agent Scott Boras before leaving the GM meetings, which conclude today.

Every December, teams decide they don't want to pay some of their players the going rate.

The Mets completed a three-game sweep of the Astros with a 40 win today in Citi Field, ending the 2009 season.

The Mets finished the road portion of their schedule in appropriately ridiculous fashion here yesterday with a 7-4, walk-off loss to the Nationals on Justin Maxwell's grand slam against Francisco Rodriguez.

In a season where so much has gone consistently wrong for the Mets, reliever Pedro Feliciano is one of the few things that has gone consistently right.

Another meltdown by the Mets gave the Washington Nationals a rare winning streak.

Nick Evans has started only three games since an Aug. 25 promotion, but the down time hasn't been a complete waste.

The Mets defeated the Marlins by the score of 6-5 at Land Shark Stadium in Miami tonight.

The Mets open a three game series tonight against the Marlins, at Land Shark Stadium in Miami.

Step right up, the Mets asked Fernando Nieve, Tim Redding, Bobby Parnell, Pat Misch and Nelson Figueroa.

Journeyman right-hander Tim Redding will take the hill for the New York Mets this afternoon against the visiting Washington Nationals in the second test of a three-game series at Citi Field.

New York Mets starter Tim Redding throws a pitch in the first inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals at Citi Field in New York, on Saturday, Sept.

Faith and Fear in Flushing made its debut on Feb. 16, 2005, the brainchild of two longtime friends and lifelong Met fans.

New York Mets starter Tim Redding throws a pitch in the first inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals at Citi Field in New York, on Saturday, Sept.

Journeyman right-hander Tim Redding will take the hill for the New York Mets this afternoon against the visiting Washington Nationals in the second test of a three-game series at Citi Field.

In seven starts for Philadelphia, Pedro Martinez has compiled a record of 5-0, striking out 34 in 37 innings with an ERA of 2.87. This is the same Martinez who was deemed surplus to Mets requirements last spring, unworthy of consideration compared to the likes of Tim Redding and Freddy Garcia.

The call keeps coming from angry e-mailers, even angrier talk-radio hosts and callers and, in one mystifying case, an otherwise respected national baseball writer.

Postseason elimination for the Mets had been a foregone conclusion since roughly mid-July, but it seemed only fitting that Pedro Martinez made it official last night.

Pedro Martinez outdueled Tim Redding and looked again like a free-agent bargain, leading the Philadelphia Phillies to a 1-0 win over the New York Mets and a doubleheader sweep on Sunday night.

Have you noticed upstate-New York product Tim Redding over his last two starts? Might have been kind of hard the way the Mets have been going, but he's gone 6 2/3 innings both times, allowing two runs to Colorado Wednesday, and three to Florida Aug.