"The agate type that used to fill newspapers' TRANSACTIONS boxes and for all I know still do can change everything - about your team, about the players within, about the course of your expectations and satisfaction as fan. While the Hot Stove barely simmers, Kyle Tucker rumors notwithstanding, I'd like to take this opportunity revisit a few picas worth of Mets transactions through time."
"January 13 is the date BB-Ref has for Carlos Beltran signing with the Mets, meaning happy twentieth anniversary! But it wasn't January 13, so happy twentieth-ish anniversary! Maybe January 13 was when the ink officially dried on the contract, but it was learned Beltran was becoming a Met as of the early morning hours of January 9, 2005, shortly after the Jets upset the Chargers in the AFC Divisional playoffs."
Transaction listings in newspapers can alter perceptions of teams, players, and fan expectations. The signing of Carlos Beltran with the New York Mets in January 2005 exemplified that shift. Baseball-Reference records the signing date as January 13, but the move was learned earlier, and Beltran appeared at Shea on January 11 after a January 9 leak following the Jets' upset of the Chargers. The signing displaced other headlines and amplified scrutiny of Beltran's every action. Luring a marquee free agent required an un-Metlike offer, and the addition of a star reshaped both on-field outlooks and supporter satisfaction.
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