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Michael Tonkin opened this 2024 season by appearing three times for the Mets. Designated for assignment after a rough outing against the Tigers, he found himself traded to the Twins just in time to get bounced around some more by the Tigers, and DfA'd again.

Claimed back off waivers by Mets, he was DfA'd a third time before being grabbed off the wire by the Yankees, who must have a big series with Detroit coming up.

Playing at the Major League level in two separate tenures for the Mets in a single season, while appearing for another big-league team in the interim, puts Michael Tonkin in some pretty exclusive territory, which I am dubbing Club McMichael, after reliever Greg McMichael, who pulled off the trick in 1998, having a far more zesty 22 and 30 games for that Mets team, with 12 appearances as a Dodger sandwiched in between.

So, the question is, who else has membership in Club McMichael?

Here's trivia to play off that. When McMichael returned to the Mets, his uniform number had been reassigned.
--what number was that?
--who had taken it?
--how was this resolved?

The question wasn’t asked but for some odd reason I think it McMichael with a number in the 70s. Was he 72 when he came back?

Oh wait. The new number must have been 36. Was the old number 72?

72 is not correct. 36 is

Was Kirk Nieuwenhuis one? Went to the Angels and came back.

Nieuwenhuis 2015 is an excellent example of a club member.

In my travels throughout the Internet, I found a former Met that did the anti-McMichael...Andy Phillips. He started 2008 with the Reds, went to the Mets, then went back to the Reds in the same season.

Congratulations to Yohan Ramirez for becoming 2024's second addition to the membership of Club McMichael!