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Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Edgy MD Aug 01 2014 02:57 PM

Just rolled over in bed one morning last week and thought, "Hey, Frank Catalanotto was totally a 21st Century Met." I had forgotten most everything about him. I think he started the season with the team and then got released before the summer had replaced the spring. 2010? 2007? I dunno. But that unloaded a floodgate of post-2000 Mets I absolutely don't think about (unlike Emil Brown, who I think about a LOT). I mentioned Chris Aguila last week. Some small engram in mind had sparked him up Tuesday or so. Just about an hour ago, Jesus Feliciano appeared in my mind, screaming how he would not be forgotten. And indeed, now he hasn't. Seems to be a wave of outfielders washing over me.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 01 2014 03:00 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Throw me the name of a player from the 1980's, and I can almost certainly tell you whether or not he was a Met. For the 2000's? Not so much. I saw something that recently referred to Jose Offerman as a former Met, and my first thought was, "That's not right." I haven't looked it up yet, but I'm not sure if I was right or wrong in saying that Offerman wasn't a Met. I've been aware of every player as they've come and gone. I've been maintaining a database! But once they're gone, many of them aren't sticking in my memory anymore.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 01 2014 03:01 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Edgy MD wrote: Seems to be a wave of outfielders washing over me. I'm the same way with middle-infield depth. Joaquin Arias? Okay, if you say so. Angel Berroa? Sure, bud, show me a photo. Andy Green? Oh, bullspit.

Ceetar Aug 01 2014 04:15 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Joe Hietpas.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 01 2014 05:12 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Joe DiPastino. Tom Wilson. Danny Garcia. McKay Christensen. Much like the early-00s Flushingers, I'm not so deep up the middle.

dgwphotography Aug 01 2014 05:28 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Mike Bacsik

batmagadanleadoff Aug 01 2014 05:30 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

I could relate to this thread, because I'm drawing big blanks on fringe Mets of recent vintage, especially relievers. Must be another sign of aging. Catalanotto (1B), I know, though. A local guy (LI) who played for the Mets for the first few weeks of 2010 ... arrived at the Mets at the end of an undistinguished career ... very memorable (at least to me, anyway) only because in his lone Mets start, bad Jerry slotted the fading scrub in the cleanup spot for no other reason (at least to me, anyway) than that the regular first baseman of the season to that point (Mike Jacobs) usually batted cleanup. Toppless as a Met. Has his own website. http://www.frankcatalanotto.com/index.php

themetfairy Aug 01 2014 05:49 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

We remember Mike Bacsik -

themetfairy Aug 01 2014 06:04 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Jaime Cerda too -

HahnSolo Aug 01 2014 07:36 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

I had completely forgotten about David Newhan until last week, when I attended a NY-Penn League game between the Hudson Valley Renegades and the Vermont Lake Monsters. Newhan is managing the Lake Monsters these days. About Catalonotto, I remember the discussion we had at the time that he was the only Met to get one--and only--start with the team, and in that start bat cleanup.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 01 2014 07:57 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

themetfairy wrote: Jaime Cerda too - You should post a photo gallery here called Growin' Up With the Mets, with the kid next to a Met, but a little older in each succeeding shot.

themetfairy Aug 01 2014 08:01 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

LOL - Nice idea, but I don't have enough pix for that.

Ashie62 Aug 01 2014 08:12 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Marco Scutaro...

G-Fafif Aug 01 2014 08:23 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Wilmer Flores. Sorry, that's a twenty-first century Met Terry Collins has forgotten about.

Lefty Specialist Aug 01 2014 08:25 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Mike Glavine. Because sometimes it's not what you know, but who you know.

Ashie62 Aug 01 2014 08:28 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

G-Fafif wrote: Wilmer Flores. Sorry, that's a twenty-first century Met Terry Collins has forgotten about. That was good for a chuckle...

Gwreck Aug 01 2014 08:35 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

I remember all of the names in this thread so far. I started looking over rosters and realized I had absolutely no recollection of Justin Hampson or Jack Egbert. But even those players, I might have been able to recall as Mets. Brian Buchanan, on the other hand? I would've lost a large sum of money had I been challenged with a wager there.

Ceetar Aug 01 2014 08:46 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Jon Switzer? Blaine Boyer? Lots of little mentioned relievers seem to slip into the beginning or ends of seasons. Then you got guys like Freddy Garcia, Spring Met only.

Mets Guy in Michigan Aug 02 2014 05:59 AM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Ceetar wrote: Then you got guys like Freddy Garcia, Spring Met only. I have his jersey from that spring! My Dad won it at a "spin-the-wheel" thing at the St.Lucie ballpark.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 02 2014 07:19 AM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Aardsma

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 02 2014 07:29 AM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Oh, I remember Aardsma, if only for the failed-closer thing that led to Old Man Hawkins nailing the job down. (Also, I remember the "Who's coming in? Oh, him" feeling he used to give me, if only vaguely.) Speaking of ex-MFYs, do you know who I don't remember from last year? Sean Henn. (Also, Laffey.)

Edgy MD Aug 02 2014 01:26 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Lefty Specialist wrote: Mike Glavine. Because sometimes it's not what you know, but who you know. You forgot about Mike Glavine?!

Lefty Specialist Aug 02 2014 01:47 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Edgy MD wrote: Lefty Specialist wrote: Mike Glavine. Because sometimes it's not what you know, but who you know. You forgot about Mike Glavine?! 'Successfully expunged from my memory until just the other day' is probably more like it.

Frayed Knot Aug 02 2014 02:19 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

I'll always insist that Jay Bell has the trophy retired for most anonymous [u:1kcma3r4]Full-Season[/u:1kcma3r4] Met of the 21st century. On the roster and (at least as far as I can remember) uninjured from opening day to closing. Looking through his records I count 26 starts for him including 16 complete games, yet still averaged out to less than 1 PA/G (142) for the season as a whole. Never fewer than 15 PAs in any month, yet never reached as many as 40 in a month.

themetfairy Aug 02 2014 02:29 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

I recall that pint-sized MK had to remind Kase and D-Dad that Bell was the guy wearing number 44 in the Mets lineup one night.

Edgy MD Aug 02 2014 04:56 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Definitely in the family picture when discussing least productive (or most counter-productive) seasons in team history. Buddy of Mo Vaughn. Don't know if that's why he made it through the season, but... well, ask Mike Glavine.

Edgy MD Aug 02 2014 08:51 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

I was just downstairs getting a drink before bed, and Argenis Reyes appeared in front of me plain as day. "I was a Met!" he cried. "You can't deny me!" "Argenis Salazar?" I asked. "What are you doing in my kitchen?" "REYES!" he yelled. "I was a Met in two different seasons! REYES!! Like José!!" "Only... different," I replied. "Yeah, different," he sighed. Still, though. Argenis Fuckin' Reyes. Right there in my kitchen.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 02 2014 09:29 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

The only reaason I remember Argenis Reyes is because the Phils picked him up right after we dropped him, and he proceeded to give them one hell of a season on the chea-- wait, am I thinking of Oil Spill Valdez? Ah, yes... so that's two I had forgotten about.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 02 2014 09:35 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Wilson Delgado Jack Egbert Andy Phillips That Mr Marlin Guy

batmagadanleadoff Aug 02 2014 09:42 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: The only reaason I remember Argenis Reyes is because the Phils picked him up right after we dropped him, and he proceeded to give them one hell of a season on the chea-- wait, am I thinking of Oil Spill Valdez? Ah, yes... so that's two I had forgotten about. Toppless as a Met. But, like just about every other Met from 2008 to the present, if he got into the starting lineup at home, a supersized Topps style card of him was hung at the stadium entrance.

Gwreck Aug 02 2014 11:33 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Least valuable Met seasons, 21st century: At -1.1 WAR: Ruben Tejada, 2013 Jason Bay, 2012 Jay Bell, 2003 At -1.2 WAR: Willie Harris, 2011 Lucas Duda, 2012

Edgy MD Aug 03 2014 05:47 AM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Who was the guy... came up around the same time as Jose Parra... like Parra, was a Latino minor league veteran... pitched effectively, then didn't... got sent down... possibly hurt... cleared waivers... and was discovered to be definitely hurt and damaged shortly after being sent down, denying him a chance to at least collect a big league salary while rehabbing because he has already passed through waivers by the time he was diagnosed? Who was that guy? May have been something simple like "Juan Perez."

Gwreck Aug 03 2014 07:30 AM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Jose Santiago? or Juan Padilla?

Ceetar Aug 03 2014 08:46 AM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: The only reaason I remember Argenis Reyes is because the Phils picked him up right after we dropped him, and he proceeded to give them one hell of a season on the chea-- wait, am I thinking of Oil Spill Valdez? Ah, yes... so that's two I had forgotten about. how could you forget Argenis? Jerry Manuel played him for a month (26 PA) without a hit and it was one of the reasons they collapsed.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 03 2014 11:37 AM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Gwreck wrote: Least valuable Met seasons, 21st century: At -1.1 WAR: Ruben Tejada, 2013 Jason Bay, 2012 Jay Bell, 2003 At -1.2 WAR: Willie Harris, 2011 Lucas Duda, 2012 Because WAR is a counting stat and not a rate stat, Jay Bell's Mets season easily qualifies as the worst of the five you posted. Bell roughly played about half as much as any of the other Mets you listed in their respective seasons in question, and about a third as much as Duda did in 2012. So which Met has the worst WAR/PA season ratio in franchise history?

Edgy MD Aug 03 2014 01:25 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Gwreck wrote: Jose Santiago? or Juan Padilla? I must be thinking of Santiago. Looking back, though, he was in a different season than Parra.

RealityChuck Aug 03 2014 02:32 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Richard Hildago Not 20th century, but who remembers Cal Koonce?

Edgy MD Aug 03 2014 05:46 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Who can forget Cal Koonce? Dude has a championship ring.

Edgy MD Sep 14 2014 12:23 PM Re: Twenty-First Century Mets I Had Forgotten About

Holy crap! Tony Armas, Jr., was totally a 2008 Met.