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Edgy MD Dec 21 2017 07:43 PM

Willie Mays and Darryl Strawberry shared six teammates. Who were they?

Benjamin Grimm Dec 21 2017 07:48 PM Re: Teammates

Tom Seaver. Rusty Staub.

Benjamin Grimm Dec 21 2017 07:49 PM Re: Teammates

But probably not Sal Maglie.

Edgy MD Dec 21 2017 07:49 PM Re: Teammates

Seaver and Staub correct. Maglie incorrect.

Benjamin Grimm Dec 21 2017 07:54 PM Re: Teammates

I just thought of two more, but I'll refrain from posting so others get a chance.

86-Dreamer Dec 21 2017 07:59 PM Re: Teammates

Craig Swan?

Edgy MD Dec 21 2017 08:10 PM Re: Teammates

Swannie is our third.

Benjamin Grimm Dec 21 2017 08:11 PM Re: Teammates

My two guys are both right-handed power hitters who were Willie's teammates in San Francisco.

Edgy MD Dec 21 2017 08:17 PM Re: Teammates

Leave the hints to me, Hinty McHintface!

G-Fafif Dec 21 2017 08:41 PM Re: Teammates

Ron Hodges

G-Fafif Dec 21 2017 08:43 PM Re: Teammates

Benjamin Grimm wrote: My two guys are both right-handed power hitters who were Willie's teammates in San Francisco. Young men with a future George Foster and Dave Kingman.

Benjamin Grimm Dec 21 2017 08:44 PM Re: Teammates

And they both have the same middle name!

Edgy MD Dec 21 2017 09:07 PM Re: Teammates

Hodges, Foster, and Kingman round out the list. Dwight Gooden and Matt Harvey have shared one teammate. Name him.

Frayed Knot Dec 21 2017 09:11 PM Re: Teammates

Edgy MD wrote: Dwight Gooden and Matt Harvey have shared one teammate. Name him. Their dealer?

G-Fafif Dec 21 2017 09:12 PM Re: Teammates

Bartolo Colon (teammate, not dealer).

Edgy MD Dec 21 2017 09:18 PM Re: Teammates

That we know of. Correct! Mickey Mantle and Lee Mazzilli have had one teammate in common. Name him.

Benjamin Grimm Dec 21 2017 09:20 PM Re: Teammates

Wow! Totally wild guess: Doc Medich?

G-Fafif Dec 21 2017 09:24 PM Re: Teammates

Edgy MD wrote: Mickey Mantle and Lee Mazzilli have had one teammate in common. Name him. Bobby Murcer.

Edgy MD Dec 21 2017 09:30 PM Re: Teammates

FaFiF is hot. Doc and Lee were teammates for one game at least, but not Doc and the Mick. Murcer joined Lido on the 1982 Yanks and Mickey on the 1965-66 team of the same name. Howard Johnson and David Wright had three teammates in common. Name them.

Benjamin Grimm Dec 21 2017 09:33 PM Re: Teammates

John Franco is one of them.

Edgy MD Dec 21 2017 09:35 PM Re: Teammates

John Franco is! He joined Johnson on the 1990-1993 Mets and Wright on the 2003-2004 edition.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 21 2017 09:42 PM Re: Teammates

Todd unZeile!

G-Fafif Dec 21 2017 09:44 PM Re: Teammates

A couple of '95 Cubs: Steve Trachsel and Todd Zeile.

Edgy MD Dec 21 2017 09:51 PM Re: Teammates

JCL is correct with Todd Zeile who joined HoJo on the 1995 Cubs and Dudley on the 2004 Mets. Steve Trachsel, guessed along with Zeile by G-FaFiF, was also a member of those same 1995 Cubs and later 'shipped with Wright on the 2003-2006 Mets. José Oquendo and Rey Ordóñez had six teammates in common. Name them.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 21 2017 09:55 PM Re: Teammates

The universal answer: Todd Zeile

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 21 2017 09:55 PM Re: Teammates

Bernard Gilkey

Edgy MD Dec 21 2017 10:02 PM Re: Teammates

Todd Zeile is a pretty good universal answer. Todd joined José on the 1989-1995 Cards, and then found a similarly power-starved teammate in Rey on the 1999-2000 Mets. Gilkey is also correct, joining José (and Todd) on the 1990-1995 Cards and then Rey on the 1996 to 1998 Mets. It's amazing how Oquendo lasted just long enough to hand a torch off to Rey.

G-Fafif Dec 21 2017 10:44 PM Re: Teammates

Don't pin 2003's mess on Wright. He didn't come up until 2004.

G-Fafif Dec 21 2017 10:48 PM Re: Teammates

Allen Watson

Edgy MD Dec 21 2017 11:47 PM Re: Teammates

Allen Watson had a front row seat to the redundant artistry of Ozzie Smith and José Oquendo with the 1993-1995 Cards, and then got a similar view of Rey Ordóñez with the 1999 Mets. Allen is also an honored recipient of the Bob Friend Award, given to the rare player who spends exactly one season in New York, but splits it between the Yankees and Mets. Three more connectors between José and Rey.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 22 2017 06:18 AM Re: Teammates

Kent Mercker?

Edgy MD Dec 22 2017 11:32 AM Re: Teammates

Not Kent.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 22 2017 07:25 PM Re: Teammates

Dennis Cook? I feel like my brain is circling around a pitcher or two and not quite closing the loop.

Edgy MD Dec 22 2017 08:11 PM Re: Teammates

Two pitchers. One jardinero.

86-Dreamer Dec 26 2017 02:47 PM Re: Teammates

Tommy Herr?

HahnSolo Dec 26 2017 04:00 PM Re: Teammates

Armando Reynoso?

Edgy MD Dec 26 2017 09:22 PM Re: Teammates

Not Mister Cook, Señor Reynoso, or Herr Herr. The second of the two pitchers and the outfielder were involved in the same deal.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 26 2017 10:22 PM Re: Teammates

Rich Rodriguez

Edgy MD Dec 26 2017 11:05 PM Re: Teammates

Rich Rodriguez was originally signed by the Mets after they drafted him in the ninth round of the 1984 draft, but after four and half years toiling in the Mets system, was dealt off off to the Padres in an all-minor league deal for Brad Pounders and Bill Stevenson, neither of whom would so much as cut a fart in a major league dugout, and indeed would total over 7 plate appearances between themselves in the minors before collectively packing it in. Rodriguez would go on to a 12-year big-league career, including terms as a teammate of José Oquendo on the 1994 and 1995 Cardinals and Rey Ordóñez on the 2000 Mets, a hapless tenure many a grumpy Met fan attributed to Rich's cozy days as a Met minor leaguer, rooming with a certain future GM named Steve Phillips. MoFo poster McGarrett threatened to have Rich Rodriguez arrested for impersonating a major league pitcher, but following his spring 2001 release, the indegatigable RichRod continued on to throw 59 1/3 innings over the next two seasons for three different teams. Two more dudes.

Nymr83 Dec 26 2017 11:40 PM Re: Teammates

"Super" Joe McEwing is the first guy i think of when I think of short skinny white guys who are described as having heart, hustle, grit, intangibles, and scrapy-ness. He also played with Oquendo and Ordonez, but he couldn't teach them to be scrappy since they both have that weird N with the squiggly line over it in their names.

Edgy MD Dec 27 2017 08:05 PM Re: Teammates

McEwing indeed played with Ordóñez with the 2001 Mets, but he did not play with José Oquendo. He did, however, come of age on a Cardinal team that boasted a coaching staff that included Oquendo who, in fact, has no tilde over his N. Maybe he's the one who taught McEwing how to be scrappy. We're looking for two guys, a starting pitcher and an outfielder, both of whom played only a year and a half with the team, but in neither case was it an insignificant year and a half. Both stayed healthy, contributed, and left behind some memories. Both ended their Mets tenures as part of the same trade.

Nymr83 Dec 27 2017 08:47 PM Re: Teammates

Edgy MD wrote: McEwing indeed played with Ordóñez with the 2001 Mets, but he did not play with José Oquendo. He did, however, come of age on a Cardinal team that boasted a coaching staff that included Oquendo who, in fact, has no tilde over his N. Maybe he's the one who taught McEwing how to be scrappy. We're looking for two guys, a starting pitcher and an outfielder, both of whom played only a year and a half with the team, but in neither case was it an insignificant year and a half. Both stayed healthy, contributed, and left behind some memories. Both ended their Mets tenures as part of the same trade. wow, i was off by 3 years on McEwing's Cardinals tenure!

Edgy MD Dec 27 2017 11:14 PM Re: Teammates

Youse know this, folks. Neither of these two guys came directly from the Cards, or are even particularly known as Cardinals, but each started their career with St. Louis, joining the Mets a team or more later in the same offseason, and ultimately left in the same trade a year and a half later, while "I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Daddy and Faith Evans featuring 112 was topping the charts. [youtube:2maebs21]mM0-ZU8njdo[/youtube:2maebs21]

Nymr83 Dec 27 2017 11:19 PM Re: Teammates

Lance Johnson and some pitcher I dont remember who got traded for Turk Wendell, Brian McCrae, and the worst pitcher in Mets' history (before 2017 Matt Harvey), Mel Rojas

G-Fafif Dec 27 2017 11:41 PM Re: Teammates

Nymr83 wrote: Lance Johnson and some pitcher I dont remember who got traded for Turk Wendell, Brian McCrae, and the worst pitcher in Mets' history (before 2017 Matt Harvey), Mel Rojas Sounds like a job for Mark Clark.

Edgy MD Dec 28 2017 12:48 AM Re: Teammates

One-Dog and Clark Bar are your correct answers. Each of you give yourselves a pat on the back. One guy was a teammate of both Pee-Wee Reese and Bud Harrelson. Name that guy.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 28 2017 02:08 AM Re: Teammates

Roy mcmillan

Nymr83 Dec 28 2017 02:13 AM Re: Teammates

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Roy mcmillan if that is right, i could have taken 100 guesses and still been wrong. I have two guesses but I'll say Duke Snider (i think we're doing 1 guess at a time?)

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 28 2017 02:22 AM Re: Teammates

I'm sure it's not right.

Edgy MD Dec 28 2017 02:24 AM Re: Teammates

Roy McMillan joined rookie Bud Harrelson on the 1965 Mets, but he his time in the fifties was all as a Cincinnati Red. No teammate time with Pee Wee, except maybe on an All-Star team or two. Duke Snider and Pee Wee were core players for the Boys of Summer Dodgers from 1947 to 1958, but his lone year with the Mets was while Bud was still slapping the ball around Salinas.

Nymr83 Dec 28 2017 02:29 AM Re: Teammates

Gil Hodges played with Reese (I think) and was Harrelson's manager, does that count?

Edgy MD Dec 28 2017 02:35 AM Re: Teammates

Nope, or else Oquendo coaching McEwing would have counted. We're looking for red-hot teammate-on-teammate action.

HahnSolo Dec 28 2017 03:06 AM Re: Teammates

Bob Aspromonte

Edgy MD Dec 28 2017 03:22 AM Re: Teammates

There we go! Bob hailed from Brooklyn, original home of his first organization, and retired to Houston, home of his second organization.

Edgy MD Dec 28 2017 03:29 AM Re: Teammates

Ron Hunt and Wally Backman enjoyed eight teammates. Eight! Name those teammates.

HahnSolo Dec 28 2017 03:35 AM Re: Teammates

Wow 8? I'll guess Rusty.

Edgy MD Dec 28 2017 03:45 AM Re: Teammates

The Rust Monster is one. He joined Ron Hunt on the 1971 Expos, and patted Wally Backman's ass on the 1981-1985 Mets.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 28 2017 02:02 PM Re: Teammates

Mike Jorgensen

Nymr83 Dec 28 2017 02:22 PM Re: Teammates

Keith!

Edgy MD Dec 28 2017 02:23 PM Re: Teammates

Jorgensen is #2! He joined Backman on the lefty brigade for the 1980-1983 Metropolitans, having previously hunted with Hunt for the 1972-1974 Expositions. [fimg=250:3m7h16z6]https://montrealexposcards.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/281-mike-jorgensen.jpg[/fimg:3m7h16z6] [fimg=250:3m7h16z6]https://montrealexposcards.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/275-ron-hunt.jpg[/fimg:3m7h16z6] [fimg=250:3m7h16z6]http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/pics/mike_jorgensen_autograph.jpg[/fimg:3m7h16z6] [fimg=250:3m7h16z6]http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/91/91-618Fr.jpg[/fimg:3m7h16z6]

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 28 2017 02:24 PM Re: Teammates

Pete Falcone

Edgy MD Dec 28 2017 02:32 PM Re: Teammates

Keith Hernandez is an excellent answer, having more than a few mentioned Hunt being his first roommate, teaching him how to recover quickly from athletic trauma, despite playing only a dozen games with the 1974 Cards. Keith and Wally would rule the right side of the Mets infield for most of the 1983 to 1989 span.

Edgy MD Dec 29 2017 03:01 PM Re: Teammates

Eight Ron Hunt/Wally Backman teammates: Rusty Staub Keith Hernandez Mike Joregensen _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ Apart from our lefty-swinging firstbasemen, five Hunt-Backman bridges remain: [list:1d7ymo0k][*:1d7ymo0k]One destroyed a highly promising career.[/*:m:1d7ymo0k] [*:1d7ymo0k]One tried to reinvent pitching.[/*:m:1d7ymo0k] [*:1d7ymo0k]One has already appeared in this thread.[/*:m:1d7ymo0k] [*:1d7ymo0k]One appeared as Pete Rose's defensive replacement in his first All-Star Game and made the play for the last out.[/*:m:1d7ymo0k] [*:1d7ymo0k]The last played 18 years in the bigs and I can tell you almost nothing about him. He played for the Mets, but touched Hunt's career and Backman's during tenures with other teams. (He may deserve his own thread.)[/*:m:1d7ymo0k][/list:u:1d7ymo0k]

MFS62 Dec 29 2017 03:20 PM Re: Teammates

Jim Dwyer? Later

Edgy MD Dec 29 2017 03:31 PM Re: Teammates

Jim Dwyer is indeed the last of those bullet points, having joined Hunt during those final 14 games for the Cardinals in 1974, and many years later crewed with Backman on the 1989 Twins. In between, he played 11 games for the 1976 Mets. He may have even worn a pillbox hat. You don't see a whole lot of careers like Jim's. Eighteen years, but only three times getting into as many as 100 games, peaking at 107. Eight Ron Hunt/Wally Backman teammates: Rusty Staub Keith Hernandez Mike Jorgensen Jim Dwyer _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________

seawolf17 Dec 29 2017 03:32 PM Re: Teammates

Ellis Valentine?

MFS62 Dec 29 2017 03:34 PM Re: Teammates

Thanks. It was your comments about an 18 year career and relative obscurity ("not knowing much about him") that got me thinking. Later

Edgy MD Dec 29 2017 03:58 PM Re: Teammates

seawolf17 wrote: Ellis Valentine? Ellis came up in 1975, a season after Hunty took his final bow. He did, however, have a brief-but-torrid relationship with Backman on the 1981-1982 Mets. Ellis, man. Had the best season of his career in 1980 and got dumped to the Mets for a reliever less than two months into the next season, and never put together more than two productive weeks in the rest of his career. Seemingly below market value though it was, Valentine for Reardon turned out to be a great trade for the Expos, but has cocaine ever been more associated with a such a dramatic career downturn? I mean, besides Harvey? Eight Ron Hunt/Wally Backman teammates: Rusty Staub Keith Hernandez Mike Jorgensen Jim Dwyer _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________

seawolf17 Dec 29 2017 04:09 PM Re: Teammates

Ah. 1974 is a good clue. Gary Carter, then.

Edgy MD Dec 29 2017 04:31 PM Re: Teammates

Gary Carter is correct! If only kinda! Kid 8 debuted on the 1974 Expos on September 9, four days after Hunt was selected off waivers by the Cardinals. But I like to think Carter came up on September 1 and I also like to think Hunt shared a shower with the rookie at some point. Who wouldn't? That guy LOVED showering! [youtube:98dg3s14]hIIQULPkWnk[/youtube:98dg3s14] And from 1985 to 1988 he would become a regular showerer with Wally Backman. Probably the best part of Wally's day. Carter would make the All Star squad as (still) a rookie in 1975, splitting his time between the outfield and catcher, and his ASG debut was as a ninth-inning sub for Pete Rose, Making the game-ending out by corralling a fly off the bat of Rod Carew, securing the National League's annual win. Rusty Staub Keith Hernandez Mike Jorgensen Jim Dwyer Gary Carter _______________ _______________ _______________

SteveJRogers Dec 29 2017 04:40 PM Re: Teammates

Mike Marshall?

Edgy MD Dec 29 2017 04:44 PM Re: Teammates

Yup, Dr. Mike is our mutual teammate who tried to change pitching. He joined Ron on the 1970-1973 Expos and later finished his career enjoying Back-MANIA! with the strike-stricken 1981 Mets. Two guys remain: the destroyer of careers and the thread recidivist. Rusty Staub Keith Hernandez Mike Jorgensen Jim Dwyer Gary Carter Mike Marshall _______________ _______________

Frayed Knot Dec 29 2017 07:50 PM Re: Teammates

Seaver

Edgy MD Dec 29 2017 08:09 PM Re: Teammates

Ron was with the Mets through 1966, and Seaver emerged in 1967. Close. We have a pitcher and an outfielder remaining.