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THE SCHAEFER METS PLAYERS OF THE YEAR, 2022

PLAYER OF THE YEAR The Schaefer Mets Player of the Year for 2022 is third-time winner PETE ALONSO, with 121.33 points. Pete joins David Wright (6) and Jacob deGrom (3) as the only Mets who have won three or more CPF Schaefer awards. PREVIOUS WINNERS: 2005 - David Wright, 140.17 points*; 2006 - David Wright, 121.16; 2007 - David Wright, 124.77; 2008 - Johan Santana, 121.37; 2009 - David Wright, 91.72; 2010 - David Wright, 117.56; 2011 - Jose Reyes, 104.96; 2012 - David Wright, 113.06; 2013 - Daniel Murphy, 107.30; 2014 - Lucas Duda, 95.62; 2015 - Jacob deGrom, 97.08; 2016 - Yoenis Cespedes, 90.62; 2017 - Jacob deGrom, 92.11; 2018 - Jacob deGrom, 126.99; 2019 - Pete Alonso, 124.86; 2020 - Michael Conforto, 36.56; 2021 - Pete Alonso, 110.35. * Totals were higher in 2005 because of a rule specifying that ten points were to be awarded for each game.

PITCHER OF THE YEAR The Schaefer Mets Pitcher of the Year is a first-time winner, CHRIS BASSITT with 75.01 points. PREVIOUS WINNERS: 2005 - Pedro Martinez, 120.68 points*; 2006 - Tom Glavine, 80.26; 2007 - Tom Glavine, 75.97; 2008 - Johan Santana, 121.37; 2009 - Johan Santana, 84.61; 2010 - Johan Santana, 90.42; 2011 - R.A. Dickey, 69.40; 2012 - R.A. Dickey, 110.12; 2013 - Matt Harvey, 86.68; 2014 - Bartolo Colon, 74.77; 2015 - Jacob deGrom, 97.08; 2016 - Noah Syndergaard, 89.81; 2017 - Jacob deGrom, 92.11; 2018 - Jacob deGrom, 126.99; 2019 - Jacob deGrom, 106.29; 2020 - Jacob deGrom, 34.82; 2021 - Marcus Stroman, 77.55. * Totals were higher in 2005 because of a rule specifying that ten points were to be awarded for each game.

RELIEF PITCHER OF THE YEAR For the third consecutive season, the reliever of the year is EDWIN DIAZ. He earned 41.44 points out of the bullpen. PREVIOUS WINNERS: 2006 - Billy Wagner, 40.39 points; 2007 - Aaron Heilman, 34.86; 2008 - Aaron Heilman, 34.50; 2009 - Francisco Rodriguez, 38.58; 2010 - Hisanori Takahashi 28.69; 2011 - Pedro Beato, 25.93; 2012 - Bobby Parnell, 29.01; 2013 - LaTroy Hawkins, 32.30; 2014 - Carlos Torres, 35.75; 2015 - Jeurys Familia, 35.85; 2016 - Jeurys Familia, 36.70; 2017 - Paul Sewald, 22.41; 2018 - Seth Lugo, 36.26; 2019 - Seth Lugo: 39.38; 2020 - Edwin Diaz, 12.96; 2021 - Edwin Diaz, 39.54.

BENCH PLAYER OF THE YEAR The Bench Player of the Year is Darin Ruf, who earned 3.65 points in games in which he was not in the starting lineup. This award has become virtually meaningless now that the Designated Hitter is the law of the land. PREVIOUS WINNERS: 2006 - Julio Franco, 7.16 points; 2007 - Marlon Anderson, 10.39; 2008 - Damion Easley, 5.06; 2009 - Fernando Tatis, 8.37; 2010 - Chris Carter, 9.28; 2011 - Scott Hairston, 8.77; 2012 - Jordany Valdespin, 13.84; 2013 - Jordany Valdespin, 8.70; 2014 - Eric Campbell, 5.89; 2015 - Michael Cuddyer, 3.49; 2016 - Kelly Johnson, 8.29; 2017 - Wilmer Flores, 4.89; 2018 - Wilmer Flores, 9.99; 2019 - J.D. Davis, 10.98; 2020 - Amed Rosario, 2.83; 2021 - Brandon Drury, 11.97.

SEASON TOTALS FOR RELIEF PITCHERS IN 2022
1 Edwin Diaz 41.44
2 Adam Ottavino 29.95
3 Seth Lugo 24.44
4 Joely Rodriguez 20.49
5 Drew Smith 17.38
6 Trevor Williams 16.68
7 Mychal Givens 9.19
8 Adonis Medina 9.13
9 Chasen Shreve 8.97
10 Tommy Hunter 8.61
11 Trevor May 7.90
12 David Peterson 7.51
13 Colin Holderman 7.39
14 Stephen Nogosek 6.46
15 Yoan Lopez 3.78
16 Sean Reid-Foley 2.14
17 Tylor Megill 1.82
18 Darin Ruf 1.72
19 Nate Fisher 1.71
20 Jake Reed 1.37
21 Alex Claudio 0.68
22 Rob Zastryzny 0.19
23 Sam Clay 0.11



SEASON TOTALS FOR BENCH PLAYERS IN 2022
1 Darin Ruf 3.65
2 J.D. Davis 3.39
3 Dominic Smith 2.52
4 Tomas Nido 1.89
5 Khalil Lee 1.51
6 Terrance Gore 1.25
7 Luis Guillorme 1.15
8 Eduardo Escobar 1.01
8 Tyler Naquin 1.01
10 Francisco Alvarez 0.84
11 Patrick Mazeika 0.64
12 Mark Vientos 0.57
12 Mark Canha 0.57
14 James McCann 0.45
15 Jeff McNeil 0.25
16 Deven Marrero 0.20
17 Travis Jankowski 0.12
17 Starling Marte 0.12
19 Nick Plummer 0.05
20 Daniel Vogelbach 0.03
21 Ender Inciarte 0.01





SCHAEFER METS PLAYER OF THE WEEK, 2022
Week ending April 9, 2022: Chris Bassitt, 3.95 points.
Week ending April 16, 2022: Carlos Carrasco, 7.08 points.
Week ending April 23, 2022: Francisco Lindor, 6.47 points.
Week ending April 30, 2022: Tylor Megill, 7.10 points.
Week ending May 7, 2022: Starling Marte, 6.01 points.
Week ending May 14, 2022: Pete Alonso, 7.77 points
Week ending May 21, 2022: Pete Alonso, 7.55 points.
Week ending May 28, 2022: Francisco Lindor, 10.81 points.
Week ending June 4, 2022: Starling Marte, 6.66 points.
Week ending June 11, 2022: Eduardo Escobar, 6.42 points.
Week ending June 18, 2022: Taijuan Walker, 7.33 points.
Week ending June 25, 2022: Francisco Lindor, 6.79 points.
Week ending July 2, 2022: David Peterson, 6.59 points.
Week ending July 9, 2022: Brandon Nimmo, 6.77 points.
Week ending July 16, 2022: Max Scherzer, 7.38 points.
Week ending July 23, 2022: Chris Bassitt, 3.75 points.
Week ending July 30, 2022: Carlos Carrasco, 7.03 points.
Week ending August 6, 2022: Francisco Lindor, 9.50 points.
Week ending August 13, 2022: Jacob deGrom, 8.57 points.
Week ending August 20, 2022: Jeff McNeil, 7.78 points.
Week ending August 27, 2022: Mark Canha, 8.10 points.
Week ending September 3, 2022: Max Scherzer, 7.27 points.
Week ending September 10, 2022: Eduardo Escobar, 4.86 points.
Week ending September 17, 2022: Taijuan Walker, 6.62 points.
Week ending September 24, 2022: Pete Alonso, 8.09 points.
Week ending October 1, 2022: Eduardo Escobar, 8.68 points.
Week ending October 8, 2022: Brandon Nimmo, 6.00 points.

Thanks to those who participated!

Thanks for all your great work.

Could Bench Player of the Year regain some of its past relevance by including designated hitters? I'm spitballing, clearly.

Fun stuff, as always! Love the Diaz card. Ruf winning an award for anything in
2022 seems a bit of an anomaly to me. Have to chew on that a bit.

Great work.
Thanks.
When is the awards ceremony?
Later

There is none. Nobody really cares about this!

But I have all those unused SAS airline miles.
Now I'll have to take my wife somewhere.
Later

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 9:47 am Thanks for all your great work.

Could Bench Player of the Year regain some of its past relevance by including designated hitters? I'm spitballing, clearly.

I thought about making it be for players who start fewer than half the games, but they would accumulate points even in the games that they did start. But I'm not going to actually make any changes. Schaefer survives because of the minimal effort required since I've automated it. I'm not inclined to invest any time in modifying the code that's in place.

The Bench Award serves, I guess, to inspire baseball cards for guys who ordinarily wouldn't have gotten one, like Ruf and Gore and Lee etc.

Well, thank you for the glorious results of your minimal effort!

You're quite welcome!

Here's to Darin Ruf, a dreadful designated hitter ostensibly for the pitcher, parlaying his one outing as a pitcher into an award that probably had Luis Guillorme written all over it in theory.

Here's to Grimm ostensibly doing his least, yet delivering what long ago might have been described as "the most!"

Nice job, Pete and Edwin, too. And good going, Chris, staying healthy in a year when Jake and Max missed significant time.

I voted as McOften as I could. I feel I had something close to a 100% rate going into the last quarter of the season, but I shlubbed it up from there.

I salute our worthy winners. I personally would have Lindor as our player-guy and Scherzer as our pitcher-guy. Francisco's 161 games played (including 159 starts at shortstop) and the regular high defensive standard he brought made him unparalleled as a wire-to-wire performer.

Both finished a close second. Scherzer was only about five points behind Bassitt, and Lindor nine behind Alonso.

Diaz with the highest ever point total for a reliever!

Bassitt pitched the entire season so he earned it

Thank you for your efforts BG

Yeah, the Ruf award definitely needs an asterisk. And here I was thinking the joke points I gave him for his pitching performance wouldn't matter in the end.

Alternatively, we could just rename it The Ruf Award.

Ruf should've gotten his pitching points as a reliever.