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All-time, All-Mets Team
| Mets – Willets Point Mar 26 2013 07:51 AM |
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So I was thinking to myself what an all-time team of baseball players who played their entire major league baseball career in a Mets' uniform. David Wright is a shoe-in for 3rd base, but then it seems that every other Met great has played on another team at one time or another. I suppose Ed Kranepool would make the team due to longevity. But who else?
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| Edgy MD Mar 26 2013 07:53 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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Pedro Feliciano is an obvious choice.
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| Benjamin Grimm Mar 26 2013 08:02 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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Jeff Innis and Ron Gardenhire are both "pure", I think.
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| Swan Swan H Mar 26 2013 08:15 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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Mike Glavine? {ducks}
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| sharpie Mar 26 2013 08:41 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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David Wright and Pedro Feliciano can't make the team yet. I think you have to be retired as they could pull a Cleon Jones or John Stearns and have a few meaningless at-bats elsewhere at the end of their career.
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| Benjamin Grimm Mar 26 2013 08:56 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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Mets players who never played for another big league team:
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| Mets – Willets Point Mar 26 2013 08:57 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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I'm doing this as an up-to-now team, but they would be removed from the roster should they join another MLB team later in their career.
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| Edgy MD Mar 26 2013 09:01 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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Argenis Reyes. This team is going to kick some serious ass.
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| MFS62 Mar 26 2013 09:02 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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I realize it will only be an American League team, but I'm guessing that Josh Thole will drop off that list in about a week.
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| SteveJRogers Mar 26 2013 09:07 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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Ditto Mike Pelfrey, whom is due to pitch against the Mets when they head up to Minnesota.
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| Farmer Ted Mar 26 2013 09:15 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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The infamous Frank Estrada resurfaces. Played in only one major league game in his entire career in 1969 and the first-ever Mexican-born catcher in the bigs. His baseball card will show he finished with a lifetime batting average .500! Also part of the Nolan Ryan trade. He needs to make the all-Mets 40-man roster fo sho.
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| metsguyinmichigan Mar 26 2013 12:40 PM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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I've completely expunged from my memory that Tom Seaver player for other teams. Except for the no-hitter. And the 300th win.
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| Vic Sage Mar 26 2013 01:50 PM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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C - Ron Hodges 1973-1984
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| Mets – Willets Point Mar 26 2013 01:53 PM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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I'm now a little sad that I brought this topic up.
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| seawolf17 Mar 26 2013 02:03 PM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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So when Pelf becomes a Twin, the best all-time only-Met RHSP from the team that brought you Seaver and Doc... is Bob Myrick.
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| RealityChuck Mar 26 2013 02:13 PM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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My sentimental choice is Shaun Fitzmaurice.
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| sharpie Mar 26 2013 02:23 PM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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Josh Thole has been sent to the minors by the Jays along with other ex-Met Mike Nickeas in favor of yet another ex-Met Henry Blanco so Josh might make that team yet.
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| Vic Sage Mar 27 2013 08:07 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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i'd still rather have Ron Hodges, if only for sentiment's sake.
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| Edgy MD Mar 27 2013 08:22 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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Hodges could work a walk.
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| Vic Sage Mar 27 2013 08:31 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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yeah, when i started going through the list, it became clear we would not be fielding an all-star team. But i think with most franchises, the guys who end up as "career" guys are either marginal players with short careers (they get a shot and then they're gone), or limited playing time over a long period (bench players), or face-of-the-franchise superstars. I think the mid-tier guys, the productive guys with market value, tend to price themselves out with their first team and move on for a bigger mid-career contract. Where i think the mets have come up short is that they don't lock down their stars, with Wright being the only exception (so far). That all-stars Seaver, Koosman, Cleon, Harrelson, Ryan, Matlack, McGraw, Ken Singleton, Amos Otis, Craig Swan, Hubie Brooks, Mookie, Mazz, Doc & Daryl, Dykstra, Darling, Orosco & McDowell, Fonzie, Hundley, Jeffries, Reardon, Isringhausen and ReyRey (to name a few) weren't career mets is where we suffer (historically speaking) as a franchise.
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| Benjamin Grimm Mar 27 2013 08:43 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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Singleton and Brooks, at least, were traded for veteran players (both from the Expos!) who helped the Mets win a pennant.
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| Edgy MD Mar 27 2013 08:51 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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Mazzilli, too, if you take out the Expo clause. Mets can't be too blamed for Cleon Jones and Craig Swan shlubbing it over to the American League for a few pointless appearances it at the end of their careers.
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| seawolf17 Mar 27 2013 09:02 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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I'd honestly bet that not too many franchises can field a much better team, especially any of the other ones who predate free agency.
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| seawolf17 Mar 27 2013 09:07 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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OnlyAstros HR Leaders:
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| sharpie Mar 27 2013 09:47 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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The Padres at least have Tony Gwynn; the Astros Bagwell and Biggio. At this point, excluding non-retired players, we got nobody who objective observers would cite as a "good player."
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| Edgy MD Mar 27 2013 10:12 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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Well, Wright. He's signed through the apparent end of his career. He's approaching five-and-dime status. So, hopefully the organization is putting that behind them.
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| sharpie Mar 27 2013 10:37 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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I said retired players. Wright could play out the contract and then have some broken-down DH appearances for the Indians.
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| Chad Ochoseis Mar 27 2013 10:55 AM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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The "All-Mets" idea is a neat bit of trivia, but if Wright ends his career batting .260 in 100 at bats as an AL DH, it wouldn't make him less Metly in any meaningful way. Letting a star go near the end of his career beats the alternative. I wouldn't say Hank Aaron's Braveness was diminished by the fact that he ended his career as a Brewer.
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| sharpie Mar 27 2013 12:12 PM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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Nor I but the condition for this exercise was players who played for no other team but the Mets.
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| Vic Sage Mar 27 2013 12:19 PM Re: All-time, All-Mets Team |
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To be clear, i'm not suggesting the Mets are to blame here for anything. just an observation that we've never had a good Met retire as one (for whatever the reasons). Wright has a chance to do so, but he might not either.
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