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All-Stars after leaving the Mets

roger_that Oct 28 2023 06:13 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 28 2023 08:29 AM

Is there a database that records, by any chance, the number of All-Star appearances by players whom the Mets have traded, released, sold, etc.? I was just looking at a photo of Felix Mantilla today and I wondered how often it happened that the Mets got rid of someone who later made an All-Star team. I think Mantilla must have been the first. Or very close. And of course I'd like to compare apples to apples here, so I'd need a matching list of players the Mets acquired who eventually became All-Stars. I'd also like a pony. ETA:We should probably establish some parameters, like "no one who became an All-Star after leaving the Mets is eligible if he hadn't played at least one game in a Mets uniform before leaving." This means that Paul Blair for example wouldn't count, since he was only a Mets farmhand when the Orioles picked him up.

DocTee Oct 28 2023 06:44 AM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

Fun question. Off the top of my head: Jeff Kent Jason Isringhausen Justin Turner Jeff Reardon

MFS62 Oct 28 2023 07:40 AM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

Kevin Mitchell- all star AND MVP Later

Benjamin Grimm Oct 28 2023 08:11 AM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

Nolan Ryan. Andres Gimenez. It's probably a long list.

roger_that Oct 28 2023 08:31 AM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

Amos Otis and Ken Singleton.

Edgy MD Oct 28 2023 08:33 AM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

Fernando Vina Melvin Mora x 2 Dave Kingman x 2 Rusty Staub Tom Seaver x 2 Mike Scott x 3

Marshmallowmilkshake Oct 28 2023 10:02 AM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

Dykstra, I suspect.

MFS62 Oct 28 2023 10:38 AM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

A.J.Burnett Later

roger_that Oct 28 2023 11:07 AM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

=MFS62 post_id=140148 time=1698511097 user_id=60] A.J.Burnett

Never pitched an inning for the Mets.

DocTee Oct 28 2023 11:35 AM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

I took the question to mean guys who played for the Mets and were never All Stars for them, but who left and then became one...so Kingman and Seaver wouldn't count?

roger_that Oct 28 2023 11:42 AM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

=DocTee post_id=140150 time=1698514551 user_id=85] I took the question to mean guys who played for the Mets and were never All Stars for them, but who left and then became one...so Kingman and Seaver wouldn't count?

Yeah, I think that's right.

MFS62 Oct 28 2023 12:08 PM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

=roger_that post_id=140149 time=1698512831 user_id=128] =MFS62 post_id=140148 time=1698511097 user_id=60] A.J.Burnett

Never pitched an inning for the Mets.

Is there a database that records, by any chance, the number of All-Star appearances by players whom the Mets have traded, released, sold, etc.?

Doesn't say anything about having played for them.

Later

MFS62 Oct 28 2023 01:20 PM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

=MFS62 post_id=140152 time=1698516485 user_id=60] =roger_that post_id=140149 time=1698512831 user_id=128] =MFS62 post_id=140148 time=1698511097 user_id=60] A.J.Burnett

Never pitched an inning for the Mets.

Is there a database that records, by any chance, the number of All-Star appearances by players whom the Mets have traded, released, sold, etc.?

Doesn't say anything about having played for them.

Carl Everett fits.

Later

roger_that Oct 28 2023 01:22 PM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

Keep reading. We should probably establish some parameters, like "no one who became an All-Star after leaving the Mets is eligible if he hadn't played at least one game in a Mets uniform before leaving." This means that Paul Blair for example wouldn't count, since he was only a Mets farmhand when the Orioles picked him up.

MFS62 Oct 28 2023 01:35 PM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

I had the parameters in mind before that. But, 'ya got me. But that's ok, because there was an outfielder who passed through their hands without playing with them who went on to be a big slugger. I had forgotten his name. So you saved me time and embarrassment. A.J is out, but Everett is still in. But I still owe you a fervent response to your Bill Mazeroski Hall of Fame post. Just haven't had time to formulate it. Maybe ... Later

Gwreck Oct 28 2023 03:07 PM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

Zack Wheeler Travis D'Arnaud Jason Vargas Heath Bell Ty Wigginton Darren O'Day

DocTee Oct 28 2023 03:15 PM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

Hubie Brooks Gregg Jeffries

MFS62 Oct 28 2023 05:22 PM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

Justin Turner Later

whippoorwill Oct 28 2023 05:58 PM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

=roger_that post_id=140143 time=1698503479 user_id=128] Amos Otis and Ken Singleton.

Amos Otis and Ken Singleton both have connections to me that you will never ever guess but you are welcome to try if you want.

DocTee Oct 28 2023 07:33 PM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

[BLOCKQUOTE] by MFS62 » Sat Oct 28, 2023 7:22 pm Justin Turner Later[/BLOCKQUOTE] See post 2 to this thread. ;)

Edgy MD Oct 28 2023 07:51 PM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

=whippoorwill post_id=140161 time=1698537504 user_id=79] =roger_that post_id=140143 time=1698503479 user_id=128] Amos Otis and Ken Singleton.

Amos Otis and Ken Singleton both have connections to me that you will never ever guess but you are welcome to try if you want.


You met both at Sunrise Mall in 1970. Otis hadn't yet been traded, and Singleton, though he hadn't yet debuted, was already doing local offseason personal appearances because he was from the greater New York area.

roger_that Oct 29 2023 03:23 AM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

Jim Hickman. And here's a weird one I'd forgotten about--Buzz Capra, whom the Mets sold to the Braves, and who made the All-Star team and led the NL in ERA the next season.

whippoorwill Oct 29 2023 06:03 AM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

Edgy MD wrote: =whippoorwill post_id=140161 time=1698537504 user_id=79] =roger_that post_id=140143 time=1698503479 user_id=128] Amos Otis and Ken Singleton. Amos Otis and Ken Singleton both have connections to me that you will never ever guess but you are welcome to try if you want.

You met both at Sunrise Mall in 1970. Otis hadn't yet been traded, and Singleton, though he hadn't yet debuted, was already doing local offseason personal appearances because he was from the greater New York area.


Nope. Not even close.



‘Amos Otis' was my nickname in high school, especially Jr Hi, and in fact it morphed into ‘Somasito' which is his name backwards.



Ken Singleton and I are both allergic to wool.



Trivia, I know.



But I found it funny that those two guys were in the same comment.

Edgy MD Oct 29 2023 07:22 AM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

That's great. Didn't you work at Woolrich?

whippoorwill Oct 29 2023 08:17 AM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

Yes I did but I avoided the wool :)

roger_that Oct 29 2023 11:37 AM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

Jeff Reardon and Hubie Brooks, both multiple All-Stars post-Mets careers.

Cowtipper Oct 29 2023 01:26 PM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

Seeing Paul Blair's name reminded me of Paul Byrd. Also Jeromy Burnitz comes to mind. Rick Aguilera's another. Marco Scutaro is another one I stumbled upon. He's often lost in the shuffle of Mets could-have-beens, but imagine if he'd blossomed with New York instead of elsewhere. He was a pretty impressive ballplayer.

Chad ochoseis Oct 29 2023 06:19 PM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

Preston Wilson Carlos Gomez

roger_that Oct 30 2023 07:31 AM Re: All-Stars after leaving the Mets

Randy Myers. And in a reversal of initials, Mike Remlinger. I thought sure, Kevin Elster made an All-Star team after leaving the Mets, but no. He did have one gigantic year where he hit 24 HRs and drove in 99 runs for Texas (and fielded like Kevin Elster) but, no, that was worth just a Comeback Player of the Year award. Looking up his record, he had a weird career, batting about 100 times in four seasons in his late twenties, which should have been his peak years, with a messed up shoulder, and ending his career with 14 HRs in 80 games for the Dodgers. He has to hold the record for being released by most MLB teams without playing a game for them.