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Future Met Lineups That Might Be Expensive to Outfit

Edgy DC May 05 2011 12:39 PM

Inspired by our side coversation in the IGT about the paucity of letters on the backs of Met uniforms today, I realized the team's current prospect list looks to possibly effect the opposite situation. (Or situate the opposite effect.) c: Blaquiere (9 letters) 1b:I dunno --- Pascucci? (8 letters) 2b: Hernandez (9 letters) 3b: Rodriguez (9 Letters) ss: Valdespin (9 letters) lf: Den Dekker (9 letters) cf: Nieuwenhuis (11 letters) rf: Maldonado (9 letters)

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 05 2011 12:42 PM Re: Future Met Lineups That Might Be Expensive to Outfit

Plus, with den Dekker, you'd have to get into different-sized specialty letters and all, plus tricky kerning. Dykstra for first?

attgig May 05 2011 01:28 PM Re: Future Met Lineups That Might Be Expensive to Outfit Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 05 2011 01:29 PM

Nicholas Santomauro ? LF'er... maybe he can play some first as well =P there's also a Kurt Steinhauer who's also an of'er.

Edgy DC May 05 2011 01:28 PM Re: Future Met Lineups That Might Be Expensive to Outfit

Good call. But he was terrible last year and I'm guessing he's done.

attgig May 05 2011 01:34 PM Re: Future Met Lineups That Might Be Expensive to Outfit

Now, if we have a team with more than one rodriguez... that would mean an extra letter, right? if we still had fernando rodriguez and a new rodriguez came, we'd have some more letters... now...if we could find an extra K Nieuwenhuis, we'd be in business

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 05 2011 01:36 PM Re: Future Met Lineups That Might Be Expensive to Outfit

Every penny counts with the Mets now, I'm thinking maybe the rare letters might be more expensive, as are double-wides like W.

G-Fafif May 05 2011 01:39 PM Re: Future Met Lineups That Might Be Expensive to Outfit

2012 Mets to announce return to "classic, clean" nameless look on backs -- home and road. And are numbers REALLY necessary?

Ceetar May 05 2011 01:44 PM Re: Future Met Lineups That Might Be Expensive to Outfit

attgig wrote: Now, if we have a team with more than one rodriguez... that would mean an extra letter, right? if we still had fernando rodriguez and a new rodriguez came, we'd have some more letters... now...if we could find an extra K Nieuwenhuis, we'd be in business There was a 'prospect' in Spring Training on the back field, wearing #7, named Reyes. No matter how talented the kid might be, that's an awfully big burden to carry isn't it? Or, it's literally Jose's old uniform and they're saving money..

metsguyinmichigan May 05 2011 03:26 PM Re: Future Met Lineups That Might Be Expensive to Outfit

Now we know by they signed Hu this winter -- and why they waited so long before bringing Isringhausen back!

Ashie62 May 05 2011 05:32 PM Re: Future Met Lineups That Might Be Expensive to Outfit

B-Met Pitcher Chris Schwinden (9) Buffalo P Taylor Tankersley (10)

Willets Point May 05 2011 07:22 PM Re: Future Met Lineups That Might Be Expensive to Outfit

For my son's soccer team we just wrote the kids' names on the back of their t-shirts with a Sharpie. Could work for the Mets. And hey, it's would be nice work for sharpie.

TransMonk May 06 2011 09:44 AM Re: Future Met Lineups That Might Be Expensive to Outfit Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 06 2011 03:57 PM

Not future, but historical, with apologies to Ben if he was working on this: Past Metly Lineups According to Name Characters For our purposes here, spaces and apostrophes count as 1 character (Lo Duca = 7, D'Amico = 7). Also, in games with a DH, the pitcher's name is not counted, otherwise, the pitcher's name is included. All players are from the starting lineup. Sorry, no relievers, pinches or substitutes. Shortest Battery = 8 charcters (20 times) Ryan/Dyer x11 Webb/Dyer x3 Swan/Dyer x1 Stone/May x1 Gee/Thole x5 Longest Baterry = 20 charcters (13 times) Sutherland/Cannizzaro x3 Richardson/Stephenson x1 Isringhausen/Castillo x2 Isringhausen/Stinnett x7 Average Battery = 12.62 charcters Shortest Infield = 18 charcters (2 times) Davis/Hu/Reyes/Wright x2 Longest Infield = 36 charcters (2 times) Clendenon/Martinez/Aspromonte/Harrelson x2 Average Infield = 27.02 charcters Shortest Outfield = 13 charcters (43 times) Agee/Mays/Staub x4 Hahn/Mays/Staub x4 Jones/Agee/Hahn x4 Jones/Hahn/Agee x17 Jones/Mays/Agee x6 Jones/Mays/Hahn x2 Jones/Mays/Agee x2 Jones/Otis/Agee x4 Longest Outfield = 29 charcters (14 times) Henderson/Youngblood/Washington x14 Average Outfield = 20.23 charcters Shortest Lineup = 44 charcters (1 time) June 18, 1968 vs. Houston Bosch CF Linz 2B Jones LF Grote C Charles 1B Buchek 3B Agee RF Weis SS Ryan P Longest Lineup = 74 charcters (3 times) May 1, 1985 vs. Houston Chapman 2B Gardenhire SS Hernandez 1B Strawberry CF Foster LF Knight 3B Christensen RF Reynolds C Darling P April 28, 1989 @ Houston Dykstra CF Jefferies 2B Hernandez 1B Strawberry RF McReynolds LF Johnson SS Carter C Magadan 3B Fernandez P May 17, 1989 vs. LA Dodgers Wilson CF Johnson SS Hernandez 1B Strawberry RF McReynolds LF Jefferies 3B Teufel 2B Lyons C Darling P Average Lineup = 59.93 charcters

Edgy DC May 06 2011 09:54 AM Re: Future Met Lineups That Might Be Expensive to Outfit

Wow.

seawolf17 May 06 2011 09:59 AM Re: Future Met Lineups That Might Be Expensive to Outfit

Edgy DC wrote: Wow. This.

G-Fafif May 06 2011 04:41 PM Re: Future Met Lineups That Might Be Expensive to Outfit

Great work, Monk. If Hu was in for Murphy and Pagan was back in center, we'd set the record tonight. We have a 48-character lineup, but replace Pridie with Pagan and Murphy with Hu, we'd be down to 43. I'll be watching this like an insane person for the rest of the year -- or until Hu is released.