How Mike Piazza Ended Up In New York 

I grow up in south central Los Angeles Mike Piazza was my favorite baseball player. He inspired me to play baseball and going to church. And having a personal relationship with Jesus keep me away from gangs and drugs during the 90's. The Dodgers fans in Los Angeles was very upset about Mike being traded. And most of as kid's. Had no idea what was really going on at that time. And why it was happening until years later. When we found out that Fox Network made the trade after buying the team. And didn't want to pay him for what he was asking but they should have. And the Dodgers general manager was not even aware of the trade. He was still working on a deal for Mike to stay with the Dodgers. Which made many Dodgers fans even more upset about the trade after finding out the details years later. But even though it was sad to see him leave the Dodgers. But as they say we all have a purpose. And everything happens for a reason. And now looking back many years later. Mike had a purpose to end up in New York with the Mets. To help the country get back to being normal after 911 happened.

My favorite catcher growing up.💪

Mi jugador favorito💪💪💪💪

As a Dodger fan, I really love Mike Piazza so much even though he became a Hall of Famer as a Met. It’s a shame and hurts to me that the Dodger management decided to trade him rather than he sign a contract extension with the Dodgers.

I’m curious what the Braves dugout looked like after losing that game on Sept. 21, 2001. I grew up a huge Braves fan and watched that game and I wasn’t mad. I was pretty emotional actually and happy the Mets got the win and that city had something to cheer. I’d like to think that night the Braves players maybe clapped or possibly stuck around for autographs or something.

Funny cuz he played in 3 heavy Italian influenced cities. He felt home everywhere. My favorite catcher and top 3 fav players ever

I remember the media and experts kept saying and was talked about a lot that Piazza needed to switch positions from catcher to 1st base some how. After he was traded he all that talking about switching positions was over and gone and he never switched.

As a kid these trades confused me so freaking much. Think it was the first time I really paid attention to player salaries.

Hurts me still to this day!

The Dodgers thought he should play for free because they took a chance on him.

He was honestly better as a Dodger. He deserved to go in as a met, but he had way better numbers as a dodger.

He played for Miami Dade-CC. THEN Miami U.

Chase D'Arnaud owns a 1.000 batting average as a Boston Red Sox player as a result of one of these kinds of deals. Only briefly appearing for them.

10 year old me was so mad when the dodgers traded him.

The way we thank the red sox for mookie betts the mets thank the dodgers for piazza.

I'm so happy the Dodgers current ownership is nothing like thr Fox era or the Frank McCunt era. This Dodgers team also had Pedro Martinez ffs

Los Angeles and Southern California was PISSED off! This, Raul Mondesi and Adrain Beltre trades were the worst for the Dodgers and set them back for decades until the new ownership group arrived which is what they have now a power house.

Mike Piazza was too good for the Mets

The METS have made sime good trades like CARLOS DELGADO, but PIA,ZZA'S was the best.

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I guess this is an AI narrator or whatever, non-human, because if this is a human, he knows nothing about baseball and can't pronounce names at all

I've always thought of him as a Dodger, but it makes sense to induct him as a Met.

Roids. Skinny kid bad 1st baseman comes back jacked. Acne on back. Not illegal Not even against MLB rules at the time. But he did what he needed to do. Like many MLBers in 90’s

Need to talk about zach nehrir, the best indy baseball player

piazza did nothing important for the mets