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Edgy DC Mar 16 2010 12:10 PM

I just learned about the Quncy Jets from this article, about a schoolboy star who played with them. But then I checked out their UMDB page, and it turns out that no players from their two seasons as a Met affilliate ever became Mets. Even a one-year affiliate like that Raleigh Mets had five eventual Mets suit up for them (some, like Roadblock Jones, did so not on the way up, but on the way down and out). Are there any other Met affiliates so unproductive?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 16 2010 12:33 PM Re: Quincy Jets

Low-level Met farm clubs in 62 and 63 would have been especially poorly populated with actual prospects. Looking over the rosters seems like Evans Killeen (what a name!) was a former big leaguer.

Ashie62 Mar 16 2010 01:42 PM Re: Quincy Jets

The 1967-68 Mankato Mets produced one outing by Jesse Hudson & Willie Mays in the form of me Charlie Williams. One coach Tom Robson & thats it

Edgy DC Mar 17 2010 08:23 AM Re: Quincy Jets

The Hagerstown Suns were affiliated with the Mets for two seasons (2005-2006), but produced (so far) six Mets. Name those Mets.

metirish Mar 17 2010 08:30 AM Re: Quincy Jets

[quote="Edgy DC":288r91a8]The Hagerstown Suns were affiliated with the Mets for two seasons (2005-2006), but produced (so far) six Mets. Name those Mets.[/quote:288r91a8] I should know this as I was the correspondent for the Suns back then

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 17 2010 08:30 AM Re: Quincy Jets

Bobby Parnell Jon Niese Tobi Stoner Joe Heitpas Nick Evans Carlos Muniz

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 17 2010 08:30 AM Re: Quincy Jets

[quote="metirish":ppzkoogg][quote="Edgy DC":ppzkoogg]The Hagerstown Suns were affiliated with the Mets for two seasons (2005-2006), but produced (so far) six Mets. Name those Mets.[/quote:ppzkoogg] I should know this as I was the correspondent for the Suns back then[/quote:ppzkoogg] What

metirish Mar 17 2010 08:33 AM Re: Quincy Jets

Nah , nothing like a real correspondent , remember we had the short lived reporting and updates on the minor league teams?. I did the Suns .....I can't think of one guy that made the Mets though. Flores is a Nat.....I remember Gaby Hernandez threw a no hitter....I had Jim Burt and Ambiorix Concepcion as adoptees.

Edgy DC Mar 17 2010 08:36 AM Re: Quincy Jets

[quote="John Cougar Lunchbucket":32zdpzc1]Bobby Parnell Jon Niese Nick Evans Carlos Muniz[/quote:32zdpzc1] These are correct. [quote="John Cougar Lunchbucket also":32zdpzc1]Tobi Stoner Joe Heitpas[/quote:32zdpzc1] These are not. I'm impressed.

Ashie62 Mar 17 2010 09:57 AM Re: Quincy Jets

My buddy Carlos Gomez & Fernando Martinez

Edgy DC Mar 17 2010 10:02 AM Re: Quincy Jets

Nice work. We're done with Hagerstown. We still have some former Suns in the system, though none that have made it so far as a Mets Spring Training camp.

MFS62 Mar 17 2010 10:26 AM Re: Quincy Jets

[quote="John Cougar Lunchbucket":1j591fad]Low-level Met farm clubs in 62 and 63 would have been especially poorly populated with actual prospects. [/quote:1j591fad] In 1963 and 64, the Mets had a farm team in Salinas in the California League. In 63 it was called C level, and in 64, they changed descriptions with no team/league below an A level, so it became an A level league. 1963: Bud Harrelson Dick Selma Rick Rusteck Jerry Johnson, a pitcher who never pitched for the Mets, but had 10 major league seasons with other clubs. 1964: Bud Harrelson Rob Gardner EDIT: The 63 team finished last (in an eight team league). The 64 team finished second. Later

Frayed Knot Mar 17 2010 10:47 AM Re: Quincy Jets

In 1963 and 64, the Mets had a farm team in Salinas in the California League. In 63 it was called C level, and in 64, they changed descriptions with no team/league below an A level, so it became an A level league. Yeah, now there's just about four different sub-levels of 'A': high-A, low-A, short-season A, rookie A I often wonder if that was done out of some ahead-of-the-curve self-esteem issue thing like they do with school kids these days. Like the players would feel better about themselves if they weren't assigned to 'B', 'C' or (god forbid) 'D' ball even though nothing really changed. Either that or I guess somewhere near Salinas they let it slip away.

Edgy DC Mar 17 2010 10:56 AM Re: Quincy Jets

That's what I always thought. If I'm a young player who played at C ball one year, it would be excrucitating to get sent back there --- knowing how many steps from the majors that seemed by such a measurement. In reality, it wasn't that uncommon for a guy to jump from C to AA or D to A.

Frayed Knot Mar 17 2010 11:02 AM Re: Quincy Jets

Or maybe they just thought it sounded too much like they were changing batteries instead of levels.

MFS62 Mar 17 2010 09:51 PM Re: Quincy Jets

IIRC it was announced that it was for the self-esteem of the towns. How would your town like to be known as a Class D town? Now they could at least say they were Class A. Later