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Six Years Ago in Mets History

metirish Jul 28 2010 11:11 AM

07/26/2004 David Wright hit his first Met home run in Montreal , opposing pitcher was John Patterson .It was a crazy game with the Expos winning 19-10.....yes , 19-10. Look t that Mets team , geez but those were the days. http://www.ultimatemets.com/gamedetail. ... 34&tabno=A then 07/30/2004 Scott Kazmir traded to the Devil Rays more interesting looking back though was the trade for Benson July 30, 2004: Traded by the New York Mets with Matt Peterson (minors) and Ty Wigginton to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Kris Benson and Jeff Keppinger. Jose Bautista and Wiggy were All-Stars this year. Bautista is having a huge breakout year this season, I have no memory of him in the Mets system, was he on anyones radar? Not posting this saying we should have kept Bautista , just looking back at history is all

Edgy DC Jul 28 2010 11:26 AM Re: Six Years Ago in Mets History

I think Bautista was a PtBNL, too. I had no idea the season he was having.

metsmarathon Jul 28 2010 11:27 AM Re: Six Years Ago in Mets History

June 5, 2000: Drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 20th round of the 2000 amateur draft. Player signed May 19, 2001. December 15, 2003: Drafted by the Baltimore Orioles from the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 2003 rule 5 draft. June 3, 2004: Selected off waivers by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays from the Baltimore Orioles. June 28, 2004: Purchased by the Kansas City Royals from the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. July 30, 2004: Traded by the Kansas City Royals to the New York Mets for Justin Huber. July 30, 2004: Traded by the New York Mets with Matt Peterson (minors) and Ty Wigginton to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Kris Benson and Jeff Keppinger. August 21, 2008: Traded by the Pittsburgh Pirates to the Toronto Blue Jays for a player to be named later. The Toronto Blue Jays sent Robinzon Diaz (August 25, 2008) to the Pittsburgh Pirates to complete the trade.

Gwreck Jul 28 2010 11:32 AM Re: Six Years Ago in Mets History

Edgy DC wrote: I think Bautista was a PtBNL, too. I had no idea the season he was having. We never really had Bautista. IIRC, he was somebody the Pirates wanted, so we made a trade with KC to get him first, and then shipped him with Wigginton and another prospect to Pittsburgh for Benson.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 28 2010 11:32 AM Re: Six Years Ago in Mets History

As I recall it, reacquiring Bautista was considered by the Pirates as key to the Benson deal. The Mets could always be counted on back then to throw around their prospects to make other teams happy in deals. Benson in many ways was a bigger disappointment than Zambrano when you look it over.

Edgy DC Jul 28 2010 11:33 AM Re: Six Years Ago in Mets History

But they got some certain low-cost productivity when they flipped him.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 28 2010 11:40 AM Re: Six Years Ago in Mets History

Yeah. But what gutless POS he was for us (I know, he was hurt allatime). One afternoon I was out back cutting the grass listening to Benson fail to get out of the 2nd inning agaisnt the Expos or something, and thinking: Could I hate a Met starter any more? (bravely hits submit before verifying that such a game ever happened)

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 28 2010 11:43 AM Re: Six Years Ago in Mets History

Bam: [url]http://ultimatemets.com/gamedetail.php?gameno=7021

metirish Jul 28 2010 11:46 AM Re: Six Years Ago in Mets History

Yeah. But what gutless POS he was for us (I know, he was hurt allatime). One afternoon I was out back cutting the grass listening to Benson fail to get out of the 2nd inning agaisnt the Expos or something, and thinking: Could I hate a Met starter any more? (bravely hits submit before verifying that such a game ever happened) This game perhaps http://ultimatemets.com/gamedetail.php?gameno=6089

Willets Point Jul 28 2010 11:58 AM Re: Six Years Ago in Mets History

Christ, as recently as 6 years ago Joe McEwing and Todd Zeile were still on the Mets. Also, Zeile pitched in that game.

Edgy DC Jul 28 2010 11:59 AM Re: Six Years Ago in Mets History

The world is full of mediocre starters, and they're all one pitch away from becomeing useless for a season. Putting down big change on any but the game changing dominators seems real foolish. Why sign Kris Bension for multi-millions when you can get 90% of the same from Matt Ginter for chump change?

Ashie62 Jul 28 2010 12:06 PM Re: Six Years Ago in Mets History

Edgy DC wrote: The world is full of mediocre starters, and they're all one pitch away from becomeing useless for a season. Putting down big change on any but the game changing dominators seems real foolish. Why sign Kris Bension for multi-millions when you can get 90% of the same from Matt Ginter for chump change? On this I totally agree.

Frayed Knot Jul 28 2010 01:14 PM Re: Six Years Ago in Mets History

That previous winter the Pirates had been raped during the Rule 5 draft, losing like 4 or 5 players out of the first 10 drafted or something crazy like that. Bautista was one of the ones they lost and they wanted to find a way to get him back so they made getting him a condition of the Benson trade and the Mets were only too happy to oblige. -- it's at this point where you can throw in comments about how this is what happens when you decide beforehand that certain players or certain trades are 'must-haves' and never consider that there may be a price at which you should walk away So anyway, the Mets sent catching prospect Justin Huber to the Royals to get Bautista in order to then package him as the cherry on top of the Wigginton & Matt Peterson cake that was the Kris Benson deal. * Peterson was a decent - though not great - pitching prospect at the time who never worked out * Huber, the Australian catching prospect, was a good bat whose prospect status dropped when he was seen as unable to handle the defensive part of the game. He put up decent offensive numbers in the KC system for years and I'm surprised he never caught on as a bench player but he never seemed to get much of a chance. * Bautista, as usual for Pirate luck over the last decade or two, kicked around their team until they gave up on him at which point he suddenly 'found it' and is now leading MLB in HRs

The Second Spitter Jul 28 2010 02:42 PM Re: Six Years Ago in Mets History

Bam: [url]http://ultimatemets.com/gamedetail.php?gameno=7021 Ryan Church leading off for the Expos.........really?

Benjamin Grimm Jul 28 2010 02:43 PM Re: Six Years Ago in Mets History

Who knows? The guy who runs that site is a crackpot, I hear.

The Second Spitter Jul 28 2010 02:47 PM Re: Six Years Ago in Mets History

That was a dig at Frank Robinson, not the esteemed webmaster of UMdB.

HahnSolo Jul 28 2010 10:18 PM Re: Six Years Ago in Mets History

He did reach base 4 out of 5 times up that day.