🎶Kolt Ingram!🎶

[G-Fafif]

Mets claim a lefty, Kimo Sabes.

[Benjamin Grimm]

He's in the Honor Group of the Day.

[Edgy MD]

New York (for immediate release) — Venerable publishing houses L.M. Kolt and Foster Ingram are proud to announce the merger of their imprints and operations under the single umbrella of the Kolt Ingram Publishing Group, LLC. Kolt Ingram is excited with the opportunity for streamlining operations that the merger represents, providing their markets with the reputation for fine literature that the two publishers have always stood for, while laying off 90% of the staff of both houses.



Evil is good. Submission is freedom. Ignorance is the true literacy. Long live Kolt Ingram.

[MFS62]

Or, as radio DJ Dan used to call it, the "Ingram flingram".



Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

I have a feeling that we're going to see a real churn of players this year.



Other than 1962, in which 45 players made their Mets debut, the most new Mets in a single season is 42, a record set in 2021.



I have a hunch that that record is going to be challenged this year.



1962 45

2021 42

1967 35

2023 34

2022 31

2002 29

2004 29

2006 28

2013 28

2008 27

1998 26

2009 26

1995 25

1992 24

1997 24

2005 24

2018 24

2019 24

2012 23

2015 23

1963 22

2000 22

2007 22

2011 22

2003 21

2010 21

1965 20

1990 20

1993 20

1999 20

2020 20

1964 19

1994 19

1996 19

2016 19

1966 17

1975 17

2001 17

2017 17

1978 16

2014 16

1981 15

1984 15

1977 14

1979 14

1989 14

1972 13

1973 13

1980 13

1982 13

1987 13

1991 13

1983 12

1985 12

1970 10

1986 10

1969 9

1974 9

1976 9

1968 8

1971 8

1988 4

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I have a feeling that we're going to see a real churn of players this year. Other than 1962, in which 45 players made their Mets debut, the most new Mets in a single season is 42, a record set in 2021. I have a hunch that that record is going to be challenged this year.

Why not? That's the trend. The last three seasons are all in the top five of your list.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, my suspicion is that recent seasons would dominate such a list with most teams.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think so too. That's the way the game has been going. I look down the list of recent Mets and there are so many whose names are completely unfamiliar to me, although of course I know who they were (or at least that they existed) at the time they were playing. Some of this is a reflection on how many brain cells I devote to short-term Mets, but it's also because there are so many of them. I remember Dennis D'Agostino's book listing the players who only appeared in one Mets game, and there were only six examples. The book covered what is, by now, about the first third of Mets history. In the years since, there have been 28 additional one-game Mets. Who the hell is Nick Tropeano? The name doesn't seem even remotely familiar to me.



1969-09-19 Jesse Hudson

1971-09-14 Frank Estrada

1971-09-15 Don Rose

1975-04-11 Mac Scarce

1977-04-13 Luis Alvarado

1977-09-29 Doc Medich

1987-07-25 Bob Gibson

1989-09-16 Manny Hernandez

1990-06-03 Dave Liddell

1993-09-29 Kenny Greer

1997-06-15 Kevin Morgan

1999-08-09 Dan Murray

2000-06-04 Ryan McGuire

2001-04-26 Brett Hinchliffe

2001-07-24 Gary Bennett

2004-10-03 Joe Hietpas

2007-04-30 Chan Ho Park

2007-07-27 Jon Adkins

2012-05-28 Jack Egbert

2012-08-08 Garrett Olson

2015-06-17 Akeel Morris

2017-05-07 Adam Wilk

2018-05-31 Scott Copeland

2019-08-04 Donnie Hart

2020-09-01 Ariel Jurado

2021-04-24 Stephen Tarpley

2021-07-09 Nick Tropeano

2021-07-29 Akeem Bostick

2022-08-16 R.J. Alvarez

2022-08-20 Sam Clay

2022-08-20 Rob Zastryzny

2022-08-21 Nate Fisher

2023-04-22 Edwin Uceta

2023-08-14 Tyson Miller

[MFS62]

The only thing I remember about Mac Scarce is his full name was Guerrant McCurdy Scarce.



Later

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Ariel Jurado got me. They made him up.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: 1969-09-19 Jesse Hudson 1971-09-14 Frank Estrada 1971-09-15 Don Rose 1975-04-11 Mac Scarce 1977-04-13 Luis Alvarado 1977-09-29 Doc Medich 1987-07-25 Bob Gibson 1989-09-16 Manny Hernandez 1990-06-03 Dave Liddell 1993-09-29 Kenny Greer 1997-06-15 Kevin Morgan 1999-08-09 Dan Murray 2000-06-04 Ryan McGuire 2001-04-26 Brett Hinchliffe 2001-07-24 Gary Bennett 2004-10-03 Joe Hietpas 2007-04-30 Chan Ho Park 2007-07-27 Jon Adkins 2012-05-28 Jack Egbert 2012-08-08 Garrett Olson 2015-06-17 Akeel Morris 2017-05-07 Adam Wilk 2018-05-31 Scott Copeland 2019-08-04 Donnie Hart 2020-09-01 Ariel Jurado 2021-04-24 Stephen Tarpley 2021-07-09 Nick Tropeano 2021-07-29 Akeem Bostick 2022-08-16 R.J. Alvarez 2022-08-20 Sam Clay 2022-08-20 Rob Zastryzny 2022-08-21 Nate Fisher 2023-04-22 Edwin Uceta 2023-08-14 Tyson Miller

Cool. You should have this list as its own section somewhere in your UMDB.

[Edgy MD]

I know Nick Tropeano not just because he was a seven-year MLB vet (albeit much of that in the other league) when he came to New York, but also because he was a Long Islander and a Stony Brook alum, so Seawolf totally plotzed over him.

[Benjamin Grimm]

But he didn't stick around long enough for us to make endless jokes about how poorly educated he was.



Who was that pitcher with the Marlins? Tom somebody?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Tom Kohler

[whippoorwill]

I don't know what's up with the musical notes but I'm thinking his name to either Moon River or Goldfinger

[Benjamin Grimm]

It's inspired by legendary WABC disk jockey Dan Ingram.

[G-Fafif]

🎶Dan's jingle!🎶