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Mets Have 'Four or Five Suitors' Interested in Buying Team, Says Jeff Wilpon

The New York Mets have four or five serious suitors to purchase the franchise, according to COO Jeff Wilpon.

"The team will have some kind of transaction. I can't tell you exactly what it's going to be and how it's going to look," Wilpon told the UJA-Federation of New York, per B/R's Yaron Weitzman. "But we're working toward a transaction and there's four or five suitors that are out there to do something with and [there's] a bunch of philanthropic planning and family planning that my dad and my uncle want to do, and it's totally fine.