When someone told Tyler Zuber he needed to meet with Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash late Tuesday afternoon, the unsung 29-year-old right-hander started counting the pitchers left on the roster.

Maggie Zuber was the first girl to ever wrestle for Mother McAuley. She spent two years as the only one. And she dreamed of having a team at her school. Zuber then went out and recruited a coach.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Tyler Zuber, new Mets reliever, is an easy-going, sweeper-throwing country boy from an Arkansas town tiny enough that the entire population would fill just one out of ...