The Crane Pool Forum

Mets claim a lefty, Kimo Sabes.

He's in the Honor Group of the Day.

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Evil is good. Submission is freedom. Ignorance is the true literacy. Long live Kolt Ingram.

Or, as radio DJ Dan used to call it, the "Ingram flingram".

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I have a feeling that we're going to see a real churn of players this year.

Other than 1962, in which 45 players made their Mets debut, the most new Mets in a single season is 42, a record set in 2021.

I have a hunch that that record is going to be challenged this year.

1962 45
2021 42
1967 35
2023 34
2022 31
2002 29
2004 29
2006 28
2013 28
2008 27
1998 26
2009 26
1995 25
1992 24
1997 24
2005 24
2018 24
2019 24
2012 23
2015 23
1963 22
2000 22
2007 22
2011 22
2003 21
2010 21
1965 20
1990 20
1993 20
1999 20
2020 20
1964 19
1994 19
1996 19
2016 19
1966 17
1975 17
2001 17
2017 17
1978 16
2014 16
1981 15
1984 15
1977 14
1979 14
1989 14
1972 13
1973 13
1980 13
1982 13
1987 13
1991 13
1983 12
1985 12
1970 10
1986 10
1969 9
1974 9
1976 9
1968 8
1971 8
1988 4

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:59 pm I have a feeling that we're going to see a real churn of players this year.

Other than 1962, in which 45 players made their Mets debut, the most new Mets in a single season is 42, a record set in 2021.

I have a hunch that that record is going to be challenged this year.

Why not? That's the trend. The last three seasons are all in the top five of your list.

Yeah, my suspicion is that recent seasons would dominate such a list with most teams.

I think so too. That's the way the game has been going. I look down the list of recent Mets and there are so many whose names are completely unfamiliar to me, although of course I know who they were (or at least that they existed) at the time they were playing. Some of this is a reflection on how many brain cells I devote to short-term Mets, but it's also because there are so many of them. I remember Dennis D'Agostino's book listing the players who only appeared in one Mets game, and there were only six examples. The book covered what is, by now, about the first third of Mets history. In the years since, there have been 28 additional one-game Mets. Who the hell is Nick Tropeano? The name doesn't seem even remotely familiar to me.

1969-09-19 Jesse Hudson
1971-09-14 Frank Estrada
1971-09-15 Don Rose
1975-04-11 Mac Scarce
1977-04-13 Luis Alvarado
1977-09-29 Doc Medich
1987-07-25 Bob Gibson
1989-09-16 Manny Hernandez
1990-06-03 Dave Liddell
1993-09-29 Kenny Greer
1997-06-15 Kevin Morgan
1999-08-09 Dan Murray
2000-06-04 Ryan McGuire
2001-04-26 Brett Hinchliffe
2001-07-24 Gary Bennett
2004-10-03 Joe Hietpas
2007-04-30 Chan Ho Park
2007-07-27 Jon Adkins
2012-05-28 Jack Egbert
2012-08-08 Garrett Olson
2015-06-17 Akeel Morris
2017-05-07 Adam Wilk
2018-05-31 Scott Copeland
2019-08-04 Donnie Hart
2020-09-01 Ariel Jurado
2021-04-24 Stephen Tarpley
2021-07-09 Nick Tropeano
2021-07-29 Akeem Bostick
2022-08-16 R.J. Alvarez
2022-08-20 Sam Clay
2022-08-20 Rob Zastryzny
2022-08-21 Nate Fisher
2023-04-22 Edwin Uceta
2023-08-14 Tyson Miller

The only thing I remember about Mac Scarce is his full name was Guerrant McCurdy Scarce.

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Ariel Jurado got me. They made him up.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:38 pm
1969-09-19 Jesse Hudson
1971-09-14 Frank Estrada
1971-09-15 Don Rose
1975-04-11 Mac Scarce
1977-04-13 Luis Alvarado
1977-09-29 Doc Medich
1987-07-25 Bob Gibson
1989-09-16 Manny Hernandez
1990-06-03 Dave Liddell
1993-09-29 Kenny Greer
1997-06-15 Kevin Morgan
1999-08-09 Dan Murray
2000-06-04 Ryan McGuire
2001-04-26 Brett Hinchliffe
2001-07-24 Gary Bennett
2004-10-03 Joe Hietpas
2007-04-30 Chan Ho Park
2007-07-27 Jon Adkins
2012-05-28 Jack Egbert
2012-08-08 Garrett Olson
2015-06-17 Akeel Morris
2017-05-07 Adam Wilk
2018-05-31 Scott Copeland
2019-08-04 Donnie Hart
2020-09-01 Ariel Jurado
2021-04-24 Stephen Tarpley
2021-07-09 Nick Tropeano
2021-07-29 Akeem Bostick
2022-08-16 R.J. Alvarez
2022-08-20 Sam Clay
2022-08-20 Rob Zastryzny
2022-08-21 Nate Fisher
2023-04-22 Edwin Uceta
2023-08-14 Tyson Miller

Cool. You should have this list as its own section somewhere in your UMDB.

I know Nick Tropeano not just because he was a seven-year MLB vet (albeit much of that in the other league) when he came to New York, but also because he was a Long Islander and a Stony Brook alum, so Seawolf totally plotzed over him.

But he didn't stick around long enough for us to make endless jokes about how poorly educated he was.

Who was that pitcher with the Marlins? Tom somebody?

Tom Kohler

I don’t know what’s up with the musical notes but I’m thinking his name to either Moon River or Goldfinger

It's inspired by legendary WABC disk jockey Dan Ingram.