Fred Wilpon

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• Collins apologizes to Mets fans; Alderson supports manager

  with the Valdespin fallout, along with his spiraling team, in the middle of the Mets' series in St. Louis, principal owner Fred Wilpon declined to answer any questions about his struggling franchise when he showed up for the MLB owners meetings in Manhattan.Asked   Read more »

• Union boss Michael Weiner: If Mets want to contend, they're going to have to spend

  would like to see the Mets as a competitive team, and it's going to require a higher payroll.''Mets principal owner Fred Wilpon said last week that the economic downturn and fallout from the Bernie Madoff financial scandal forced the Mets into a period of   Read more »

• David Wright honored but says he's no Derek Jeter

  pinstripes -- but the Mets had never culled one of their own until Wright."To me, he's our Jeter," Mets principal owner Fred Wilpon said this week. "I think you need a core. I don't want to put it all on his shoulders but he gets it."But Wright, 30, was careful   Read more »

• Fred Wilpon says Mets will increase payroll as needed

  owner Fred Wilpon offered a bullish view regarding the state of the franchise, which he insists has emerged from the fallout of the Bernie Madoff financial scandal."The pain that we went through is gone," said Wilpon, who also vowed to increase payroll as   Read more »

Around the web

• Why Not Manhattan?

  2015 is a real possibility. Then he added, "There's a lot of reasons to be in Queens, but we're going to step back." Mets owner Fred Wilpon surely appreciated the suggestion.So here's a not-so-modest proposal as long as the good Sheik and Prince Randy are 9:12 PM from Wall Street Journal Read more »

• Davidoff’s (Free) Advice For Fred Wilpon : Be More Like Hal Steinbrenner

  by reporters prior to MLB’s owner’s meetings in Manhattan this week, Mets owner Fred Wilpon (above, right) had little to say about Terry Collins’ job, Jordanny Valdespin’s attitude, Ike Davis’ allergy to hitting baseballs, those ridiculous alternate hats with   from Can't Stop The Bleeding Read more »

• Fred’s fiddlin’ as Mets burn

  endured one of these since all the way back in ... April. So what does their patriarch think of this? Mets chairman and CEO Fred Wilpon cheerfully entered Major League Baseball’s Manhattan headquarters yesterday morning, reporting to the quarterly owners’   from New York Post Read more »

• Gleason: Clueless Woody tries Jets fans' patience

  is for losers.'' Jets owner Woody Johnson, of course, is no John Mara. By his quotes, Johnson could be mistaken for Fred Wilpon, another New York owner largely oblivious to what encompasses building a perennial winner. Johnson, like Wilpon, rarely speaks to   from Times Herald-Record Read more »

• Gonzalez, Ethier are players who could strengthen Mets in 2013 and beyond

  the baseball world and stay in contention, they could be July buyers with money to spend; at least, that’s what owner Fred Wilpon said in spring training. They could make an impactful trade even if they’re out of contention; the 1983 Mets were 22-36 and thinking   from New York Post Read more »