Long term NYM position players

[Frayed Knot]

cut and pasted from the 8/9 IGT

 

Gelbs talking about Pete and Darryl, Gelbs had mentioned how much faster Pete got to 252 ,Keith pipes in "you know the Mets outside of Kranepool have not had an everyday player play from start to finish, that's gotten better in recent times with Wright "

That doesn't sound correct to me

 

Put it this way, with five full and two partial (this one and the Covid one) seasons under his belt, Pete in the next few weeks will pass Piazza and then Lee Mazzilli and move into 12th place on the all-time NYM games played list. He's already 12th in plate appearances.

At the top of the list are two lifelong Mets, one a mediocre player in Ed Kranepool (#1 in G/#2 in PA) and then David Wright (#2/#1) whose career was famously cut short.

Nimmo, in 11th place, just a slim 61 Games and 73 PA ahead of Pete, is the only other full time Met ahead of him on either list.

Reyes (12 seasons a Met/4 yrs elsewhere) is in 3rd. Buddy Harrelson (13/3) and Jerry Grote (11.5/4.5) (both defense-first players at defensive positions during a pitching friendly era) are 4th & 5th. Then Cleon Jones (12/1), Howard Johnson (9/5), Mookie Wilson (10.5/2.5), Darryl Strawberry (8/9), Edgardo Alfonzo (8/4), and Nimmo round out 6th thru 11th.

So the numbers of offensive 'stars' who played even the majority of their career as a Met is fairly limited for going on 6-1/2 decades, which was pretty much Keith's point.

Two Mets who were among the best offensive players ever for the team played only about half their careers in blue/orange: Piazza (slightly over 50%) and Keith (a bit under).

Edited August 10, 2025 by Frayed Knot

[metirish]

Good stuff, FK , I think Keith needed Gelbs to follow up and he never did Edited August 10, 2025 by metirish

[Gwreck]

WAR leaderboard - entire MLB career with NYM

1. David Wright, 49.1

2. Brandon Nimmo, 26.4

3. Jeff McNeil, 22.6

4. Pete Alonso, 22.5

5. David Peterson, 8.0

6. Kodai Senga, 7.0

7. Ron Hodges, 6.2

8. Pedro Feliciano, 5.7

9. Bob Apodaca, 5.6

10. Jeff Innis, 4.6

11. Ed Kranepool, 4.2

12. Francisco Alvarez, 3.1

13. Drew Smith, 2.0

14. Tylor Megill, 1.9

15. TJ Rivera, 1.7

Edited August 10, 2025 by Gwreck

[roger_that]

I think you've confused Ron Hodges with Rod Kanehl.

[Gwreck]

No confusion, Hodges is correct.

[roger_that]

7. Rod Hodges, 6.2

 

 

You're confused about whether you're confused.

[Gwreck]

It’s a typo.

[roger_that]

It’s a typo.

 

How close is the "d" key to the "n" key on your keyboard?

It's not a typo. It's a mistake.

And you're welcome.