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1981 New York Mets season

Major League Baseball season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ4579923 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1981 New York Mets season was the 20th regular season for the Mets. They went 41–62 and finished in fifth place in the National League East. They were managed by Joe Torre. They played home games at Shea Stadium. The season is remembered for a summer strike that cut the season in half.

Offseason

November 16, 1980: Kevin Mitchell was signed as an amateur free agent by the Mets.

December 15, 1980: José Moreno and John Pacella were traded by the Mets to the San Diego Padres for Randy Jones.

December 15, 1980: Rick Sweet was purchased by the Mets from the San Diego Padres.

December 16, 1980: Rusty Staub was signed as a free agent by the Mets.

December 19, 1980: Mike Cubbage was signed as a free agent with the New York Mets.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1981 New York Mets season” as major League Baseball season. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where York, Mets and season can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as major League Baseball season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “1981 New York Mets season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.