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Edgy MD Dec 12 2013 10:19 AM

In seeking the fattest Met ever, we're up against some challenging facts. Few are honest, and little changes. If your 1971 baseball card says you're 195, it's a pretty safe bet that your 1988 card says the same. So, stipulating that (1) official weights are mostly lies, and (2) they rarely if ever change during a player's career, let's acknowledge that they're all we have and hope against hope that the degree of error is the same for everybody, and look at the BMIs of some notably chunky monkeys from Mets history. Met Height Weight BMI Category Bartolo Colon 5'11" 265 37 Morbidly Obese Mo Vaughn 6'1" 268 36 Morbidly Obese Butch Huskey 6'3" 244 30 Overweight Benny Agbayani 6'0" 225 30 Overweight Sid Fernandez 6'1" 220 29 Overweight Ramon Castro 6'3" 235 29 Overweight Rusty Staub 6'2" 215 28 Overweight Mickey Lollich 6'1" 170 22 Normal Weight All weights from UMDB, except Colon's, from baseball-reference. Man, I'm fat.

Benjamin Grimm Dec 12 2013 11:44 AM Re: Body Met Index

That 170 for Lolich is legendarily nutty.

dinosaur jesus Dec 12 2013 11:53 AM Re: Body Met Index

How about Juan Berenguer, at a willowy 5'11", 215? I think he got fatter after the Mets, though, like Kevin Mitchell.

Edgy MD Dec 12 2013 12:05 PM Re: Body Met Index

There are two Juans. Baseball-reference seems to have seen a slimmer man play than UMDB did. Met Height Weight BMI Category bb-ref Juan Berenguer 5'11" 186 25.9 Overweight UMDB Juan Berenguer 5'11" 215 30 Obese

MFS62 Dec 12 2013 12:14 PM Re: Body Met Index

Benjamin Grimm wrote: That 170 for Lolich is legendarily nutty. Both the UMDB and Baseball-Reference have Lolich at 170 pounds. That was either his weight on the day he was originally signed, or he just had one foot on the scale. Later

Lefty Specialist Dec 12 2013 12:36 PM Re: Body Met Index

If Lolich was 170 pounds, I'm George Clooney.

dinosaur jesus Dec 12 2013 12:38 PM Re: Body Met Index

Maybe the scale was in kilograms and they forgot to convert. An honest mistake.

Ashie62 Dec 12 2013 12:50 PM Re: Body Met Index

I thought this was for CPF members...

Benjamin Grimm Dec 12 2013 01:38 PM Re: Body Met Index

I think the 170 was Lolich's birth weight.

Mets Guy in Michigan Dec 12 2013 04:37 PM Re: Body Met Index

Lolich ran a donut shop southeast of Flint. Unlike that listed weight, that's a true story!

Edgy MD Dec 12 2013 05:17 PM Re: Body Met Index

Lefty Specialist Dec 12 2013 05:39 PM Re: Body Met Index

That's 170 pounds of donuts right there.