New York Mets (2010–2012) Jason Bay



jason bay in 2011 met


on december 29, 2009, bay agreed four-year, $66 million contract new york mets, included vesting option fifth year. general manager omar minaya, engineered deal, traded bay mets in 2002 when gm montreal expos. on january 5, 2010, minaya , jeff wilpon held press conference @ citi field in jason bay presented uniform, number 44 mets. red sox received 39th (anthony ranaudo) , 57th (brandon workman) selections in 2010 major league baseball draft compensation.


on april 27, in first game of double header against los angeles dodgers, bay hit first home run member of new york mets in bottom of fourth inning give mets 2–0 lead. mets went on win first game, 4–0, , win second game, 10–5.


in first season mets, bay played in 95 games. suffered concussion in game against dodgers, when ran fenced wall , head jerked back. finished season .259 batting average, 6 home runs (he hit 36 year before), 47 rbis, , scored 48 runs.


bay began 2011 on disabled list rib injury , returned mets on april 21 in game against houston astros. on day (a 9–1 mets win), bay batted , scored in 8th on rare four-base error when hunter pence failed catch bay s fly ball; david wright, on first base walk, scored ahead of him. bay had ground-rule double , scored run in 4th inning. on june 28, 2011, bay hit grand slam off of detroit tigers pitcher daniel schlereth. first grand slam mets since Ángel pagán hit 1 on august 1, 2009. on august 8, bay hit 200th career home run against san diego padres, becoming third canadian mlb player after larry walker , matt stairs reach milestone. bay hit grand slam in september en route winning fifth career national league player of week award.


bay got off slow start 2012 season, finishing spring training no home runs or rbi, , regular season, derailed further broken rib suffered while making diving catch in april 23 game against san francisco giants. when bay returned dl on june 8, 2012 against new york yankees, went 0-for-3 1 strikeout. continued go 0-for-16 in return dl through june 12, before hitting single on june 13 against tampa bay rays. in home game against cincinnati reds on june 15, bay left game in second inning after crashing left field wall , suffering concussion while attempting catch fly ball jay bruce became inside-the-park home run. subsequently placed on dl again, , returned again on july 17 against washington nationals. on september 2, bay hit grand slam off of miami marlins pitcher mark buehrle in first inning of 5–2 mets win. bay hit home run off of buehrle on september 22 in 4–3 mets win. bay finished 2012 season .165 batting average, 8 home runs , 20 rbi.


on november 7, 2012, mets , bay agreed terminate contract year , make outfielder unrestricted free agent.








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