Teammates

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Kent Mercker?

[Edgy MD]

Not Kent.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Dennis Cook?

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

[Edgy MD]

Two pitchers. One jardinero.

[Guest 86-Dreamer]

Tommy Herr?

[HahnSolo]

Armando Reynoso?

[Edgy MD]

Not Mister Cook, Señor Reynoso, or Herr Herr.

The second of the two pitchers and the outfielder were involved in the same deal.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Rich Rodriguez

[Edgy MD]

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]

"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]

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]

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]

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.

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[nymr83]

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]

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]

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.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Roy mcmillan

[nymr83]

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?)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm sure it's not right.

[Edgy MD]

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]

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

[Edgy MD]

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

[HahnSolo]

Bob Aspromonte

[Edgy MD]

There we go!

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

[Edgy MD]

Ron Hunt and Wally Backman enjoyed eight teammates. Eight!

Name those teammates.

[HahnSolo]

Wow 8?

I'll guess Rusty.

[Edgy MD]

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

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Mike Jorgensen

[nymr83]

Keith!

[Edgy MD]

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.

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