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David Wright - Top Ten Met

Frayed Knot Jan 03 2011 07:17 PM

With the incorporation of the 2010 composite list into our player rankings, David Wright moves to #7 overall up 7 slots from the end of 2009 - speeding him past Al Leiter, Keith Hernandez, Howard Johnson, Sid Fernandez, Cleon Jones, and Edgardo Alfonzo while becoming the first guy to crack the top ten since Piazza & Franco earlier in the decade. Other active players moving up (or not) as a result of 2010: Reyes from #24 to #17 Beltran -- 23 to 20 Santana -- 72 to 50 Pelfrey -- 120 to 78 Feliciano -- 91 to 80 Angel Pagan -- 203 to 98 Castillo -- 113 to 102 F. Rodriguez -- 222 to 139 Francoeur -- 234 to 170 Thole -- 566 to 275 Parnell -- 414 to 316 Dessens -- 583 to 336 Cora -- 426 to 431 (going the wrong way) Misch -- 483 to 487 Santana’s move knocks George Foster out of the top 50, while Mike Cameron & Roger Cedeno drop out of the top 100 as Pelfrey & Pagan move in. 14 players hit the list for the first time: RA Dickey - 168th place Ike Davis - 177 Jonathon Niese - 214 Hisanori Takahashi - 224 Jason Bay - 237 Rod Barajas - 308 Manny Acosta - 393 Chris Carter - 412 Ruben Tejada - 430 Dillon Gee - 446 Henry Blanco - 465 Raul Valdes - 485 ----------------------- Lucas Duda - 509 Jenrry Mejia - 538 And, for the first time since the invention of this goofy project, the list of players who received at least one vote somewhere is over the 600 mark (605). Sounds like a lot until you realize that nearly 1 in 3 players ever to put on a NYM ML uni didn’t even get that far. But, since we use just the top 500 for our ‘Player Status’ list, the addition of the new players means that we say goodbye to the likes of Pumpsie Green, John Thomson, Tom Sturdivant, Doug Simons, Bill Spiers, John Cangelosi, Jack Heidemann, Mr. Dae Sung Koo, Chuck Taylor, Bill Denehy, Kuan Acevedo & Julio Velera. The current ‘intro guy’ for newcomers (#500) is now the great Greg Harris. Mileposts: #100 - Ken Boswell #200 - Ryan Church #250 - Al Luplow #300 - J.C. Martin #400 - Gene Walter #500 - Greg Harris

Edgy MD Jan 03 2011 07:24 PM Re: David Wright - Top Ten Met

Greg Harris! When we started this, we didn't even have 500 guys in the money. Now we're over 600.

TransMonk Jan 04 2011 07:27 AM Re: David Wright - Top Ten Met

Great work, FK! I love these updates.

Willets Point Jan 04 2011 09:18 AM Re: David Wright - Top Ten Met

Wow, all that from a guy who sucks and should be traded.* *according to typical uninformed Mets fans.

Benjamin Grimm Jan 04 2011 09:26 AM Re: David Wright - Top Ten Met

Cool stuff! Didn't we once calculate how long it would take Tom Seaver to drop out of the top 500? I think the answer was something like 60,000 years.

Frayed Knot Jan 04 2011 12:05 PM Re: David Wright - Top Ten Met

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Didn't we once calculate how long it would take Tom Seaver to drop out of the top 500? I think the answer was something like 60,000 years. A discussion after the 2007 season results were final led me to declare Wright to then be 'a minimum of six good years away' from potentially catching and passing Seaver. Now, three seasons later - thanks in part to two of the last three years being sub-80 win seasons - it's clear he'll need more than just three years and will have to step on the gas to get there in four more. As things stand now he's a virtual lock to pass Franco & Piazza next season and into the top 5. The big gaps ahead of him are between the 4th & 5th slots, and then between #1 & #2.

Frayed Knot Jan 04 2011 02:09 PM Re: David Wright - Top Ten Met

I don't think I've done this update in a while: Of the 605 players who received scores in this project - 288 are 1-year Mets (or at least only made a top-30 list in one season) Those 288 range from Mike Hampton in slot #123 to Gus Bell in #605 2 Year Mets: 131 -- From Eddie Murray (89th) to David West (569) 3 Year Mets: 63 -- From John Olerud in 41st place (Santana - currently 50th overall - is next) to Dave Schneck (419) 4 Year Mets: 44 -- From Carlos Delgado (48) to Ron Grdenhire (276) 5 Year Mets: 27 -- From Armando Benitez (27) to Todd Pratt (205) 6 Year Mets: 16 -- From Carlos Beltran in 20th place (nudges out David Cone - 23rd) to Mike Jorgensen (234) 7 Year Mets: 10 -- From David Wright 7th (replaces Keith) to Ken Boswell (100) 8 Year Mets: 10 -- From Darryl Strawberry (4th) to Wally Backman (59) 9 Year Mets: 4 -- From Cleon Jones (9th) to Rusty Staub (22) 10 Year Mets: 4 -- From Sid Fernandez (10th) to Craig Swan (45) 11 Year Mets: 2 -- From Dwight Gooden in 2nd to Jerry Koosman in 3rd 12 Year Mets: 5 -- From Tom Seaver (1) to Ron Hodges (144) 13 Year Mets: 1 -- John Franco (6th) 17 Year Mets: 1 -- Ed Kranepool (12th)