NEW YORK STATE OF MIND : Yanks pick up Richie Sexson while Mets win 10th Straight and move into 1st place!

The New York Yankees have reached a tentative agreement with Richie Sexson, who was released by the Seattle Mariners a week ago.

Sexson

Sexson fits in New York because the Yankees needed a right-handed slugger to match up against left-handed pitching -- and Sexson had a .344 average with five home runs in 71 at-bats against lefties this year. He'll be in the lineup Saturday against Oakland.
The Yankees will have to pay Sexson only the prorated minimum of $390,000 from his $14 million salary with the Mariners. Seattle is eating the remainder of the nearly $6 million Sexson is owed for the season.
Sexson was batting .218 with just 30 RBIs in 74 games when the Mariners cut him loose, on July 10. He hit a career-worst .205 with 21 homers and 100 strikeouts in 2007.

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The NY METS Score 4 runs in the 9th inning to come back for the 3rd time in a wild one where Ace Starter Johan Satana left in the 4th inning after giving up 5 runs off a few homers!
Mets go for their club tying record 11 in a row tonight and possibly sole possession of 1st place in the NL EAST! Pedro Martinez will skip his start Sunday after getting an injection into his groin!

Series Pitching Matchups:

Fri 7/18	NYM (Maine) @ CIN (Arroyo)	7:10 ET
Sat 7/19	NYM (Perez) @ CIN (Fogg)	7:40 ET
Sun 7/20	NYM (Pelfrey) @ CIN (Volquez)	1:15 ET

New York Mets put 2nd Baseman, Luis Castillo on the 15 day disabled list

NY Mets are struggling as it is but LUIS CASTILLO being injured might actually help because he hasn't been hitting plus his defense has been shoddy all year!

Damion Easley will get a chunk of Castillo's playing time and he is only hitting slightly better!

The Mets, who demoted reliever Carlos Muniz on Wednesday night, purchased the contracts of outfielder Chris Aguila and second baseman Argenis Reyes from Triple-A New Orleans.

Aguila was batting .288 with 17 homers and 43 RBIs in the minors after going 1-for-6 with the Mets last month, while Reyes was batting .290 with 11 doubles, 13 steals and 22 RBIs in the minors.

Meanwhile the Mets are waiting for 42 year old outfielder, Moises Alou to get back to the team from his minor league rehab stint. Will his bat be alive or will it sputter out like it did last year?!

Hopefully the NY Mets can turn their promising season around but they are going to have to start winning WAY more games! They have the Phillies coming up which will be possibly the most important series so far in their season!