New York Metsicans

[A Boy Named Seo]

Adrian Gonzalez is just the 3rd Mexi-Met? Google revealed only Ollie P. and Fernando Salas to me.

Shot in the dark - anyone here run a database of Mets players that can get us a ruling?

[Guest sharpie]

How could they forget Juan Acevedo, Rigo Beltran and Elmer Dessens?

[Ceetar]

according to baseball-reference

Alex Trevino
Karim Garcia
Perez
Armando Reynoso
Juan Acevedo
Fernando Salas
Rigo Beltran
Frank Estrada
Elmer Dessens
Luis Ayala
Ricardo Rincon

were all born in Mexico.

[A Boy Named Seo]

sharpie wrote: How could they forget Juan Acevedo, Rigo Beltran and Elmer Dessens?

The Google machine probably didn't forget. I'm just mierda at Googling.

[Guest cooby]

Jesse O was Mexican-American

[A Boy Named Seo]

cooby wrote: Jesse O was Mexican-American

Yeah, prob a bunch of those guys including "Mex" who is not actually a Mex.

[Edgy MD]

Karim Garcia is the first one to come to mind for me.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Ultimate Mets Database: Mets by Birthplace

Ciudad Juarez
Juan Acevedo
Ciudad Obregon
Karim Garcia
Cuitlahuac
Ricardo Rincon
Culiacan
Oliver Perez
Hermosillo
Elmer Dessens
Huatabampo
Fernando Salas
Los Mochis
Luis Ayala
Monterrey
Alex Trevino
Navojoa
Francisco Estrada
San Luis Potosi
Armando Reynoso
Tijuana
Rigo Beltran

[Edgy MD]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Jesse O was Mexican-American Yeah, prob a bunch of those guys including "Mex" who is not actually a Mex.

Omar Quintanilla comes to mind. A Tex-Mexer who was last seen playing for Los Toros de Tijuana.

Daniel Ray Herrera was a Texican, too, and he had a glorious crown of hair that could put Jake deGrom to shame.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Frank Estrada was almost our own Moonlight Graham.

1 lone game in his career, September 14th, 1971 against the Expos.

Montreal lit up Nolan Ryan and with the game out of hand, Estrada came on to finish up for Jerry Grote, and went a tidy 1-for-2 in his only 2 major league at-bats.

Even though the Mets undoubtedly paid a pretty peso to acquire him in the pre-season from the Mexico City Reds in what bb-ref described as an "unknown transaction", the Mets would flip Estrada, Nolan Ryan and some other bums to the Angels for Jim Fregosi, and Estrada would never again sniff the show.

Fun Fact! bb-ref career stats show that 23 years after the Mets shipped him to Anaheim in the Ryan trade, Estrada finally played his last game in the Mexican league in 1994 at the tender age of 46! He prob wanted to outlast Nolan Ryan himself who retired after the 93 season!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Adrian Gonzalez was actually born in San Diego to Mexican immigrants

[Benjamin Grimm]

Does that mean that his Valadius nickname will be "Anchor Baby"?

[A Boy Named Seo]

Well, shit. I guess Karim the Stream's legacy as the greatest Mexican Met first baseman is safe.