2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

[Benjamin Grimm]

THE CHAMPION

New York Mets 1967 Yearbook



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THE CHALLENGER

New York Mets 2019 Yearbook



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[G-Fafif]

Great idea to keep the Yearbook Cover Derby up to date.



2019: Talk about a bet-hedger. You were just blessed with one of the greatest pitching seasons in modern baseball history and instead of truly spotlighting the pitcher (a la Seaver and the 200-strikeout record in 1975), you position as him first among a bushel of equals. Yay, deGrom is in the foreground, but, oh, we have to get portions of ten other guys in there because we're marketing the whole team, not just our best player. I'd guess this had something to do with not wanting to present deGrom heroically across the entire season in case negotiations went awry (don't know what the publication deadline was), but it's not like his Cy Young didn't already happen and they didn't schedule a celebratory bobblehead for it. I sort of dug the multiple player treatment in 2016 because it was a team effort to win the pennant but this mostly feels like nobody wants to pick a side or alienate any possible purchaser. "We need to satisfy the Wilson Ramos customers."



1967 can rest easy for another season.

[whippoorwill]

I just don't like the little kid ones

[Centerfield]

Is that really the cover? With half faces and three headless Mets across the top?



It kinda reminds me of the Mike Wazowski magazine cover from Monsters Inc.






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[dgwphotography]

Here's the full, uncropped cover:




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https://www.mlbshop.com/new-york-mets/new-york-mets-2019-yearbook/t-36992142+p-5850128900504+z-9-2101724489https://www.mlbshop.com/new-york-mets/new-york-mets-2019-yearbook/t-36992142+p-5850128900504+z-9-2101724489

[Edgy MD]

Wheeler | Rosario | Lowrie



Nimmo | Ramos | Conforto (kinda small-lookin')



McNeil | Diaz



Syndergaard | Cano



deGrom



MIA (in approximate order of profile on 2/1): Céspedes, Matz, Familia, Alonso, Lugo, Frazier, Lagares, Gsellman, Vargas, d'Arnaud, Smith, Avilan, Broxton, Davis, Guillorme, Nido, Peterson, Wilson.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The only noteworthy omission is Cespedes, and it's understandable.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Here's the full, uncropped cover: 2019Metsyb.jpeg https://www.mlbshop.com/new-york-mets/new-york-mets-2019-yearbook/t-36992142+p-5850128900504+z-9-2101724489https://www.mlbshop.com/new-york-mets/new-york-mets-2019-yearbook/t-36992142+p-5850128900504+z-9-2101724489

Thanks! I looked for a better image online but couldn't find one. I'll replace my image with that one, but you may have to clear browser cache to see the update.

[G-Fafif]

Good to see all who were intended to be presented in full. Still think they should have Jaked it.

[dgwphotography]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Here's the full, uncropped cover: 2019Metsyb.jpeg https://www.mlbshop.com/new-york-mets/new-york-mets-2019-yearbook/t-36992142+p-5850128900504+z-9-2101724489https://www.mlbshop.com/new-york-mets/new-york-mets-2019-yearbook/t-36992142+p-5850128900504+z-9-2101724489 Thanks! I looked for a better image online but couldn't find one. I'll replace my image with that one, but you may have to clear browser cache to see the update.

Yep - I see it :-)



Now I have to rip this cover apart. I can only assume Marc Levine took each of these portraits, and frankly, they're horrible. Shot with too wide of a lens so the curvature makes their stomachs bow out, and Thor's head looks just odd...

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, McNeil looks more than a little bell-shaped. I had to stare for a bit to figure out it was him.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

How did McNeil get in the second row? Matz and Familia are prolly pissed off

[G-Fafif]

50th anniversary of 1969 would have been a decent theme, too.

[whippoorwill]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The only noteworthy omission is Cespedes, and it's understandable.

Forgot all about him

[Edgy MD]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: How did McNeil get in the second row? Matz and Familia are prolly pissed off

You know who's probably really furious about it?



Yasiel Puig.

[Lefty Specialist]

So THAT'S what Jed Lowrie looks like.....I was wondering who the guy was that was wearing Wilmer's uniform.

[Edgy MD]

If you keep staring at Ramos, his arms get beefier.

[Lefty Specialist]

Edgy MD wrote: If you keep staring at Ramos, his arms get beefier.

Like a pair of canned hams with tattoos.

[Centerfield]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Here's the full, uncropped cover: 2019Metsyb.jpeg https://www.mlbshop.com/new-york-mets/new-york-mets-2019-yearbook/t-36992142+p-5850128900504+z-9-2101724489https://www.mlbshop.com/new-york-mets/new-york-mets-2019-yearbook/t-36992142+p-5850128900504+z-9-2101724489 Thanks! I looked for a better image online but couldn't find one. I'll replace my image with that one, but you may have to clear browser cache to see the update. Yep - I see it :-) Now I have to rip this cover apart. I can only assume Marc Levine took each of these portraits, and frankly, they're horrible. Shot with too wide of a lens so the curvature makes their stomachs bow out, and Thor's head looks just odd...

Wow. Great analysis. This is absolutely correct.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The winner, and still champion, is the 1967 Mets Year Book, with the cover by Willard Mullin. Maja can keep her shower curtain for another year.



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[Lefty Specialist]

What exactly is Gelbs grabbing for there?