Big, Stupid Quiz

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Frisella right.

Theodore wrong.

[Valadius]

If you meant "earned run" instead of "run"...

23 - Dick Selma, 1968.

[Zvon]

]18. I singled in three at-bats, finishing my third year with the Mets and the third straight year of declines in home runs, doubles and batting aaverage. Before I got any worse they traded me.

omg,...
so many aquired Mets declined, only one answer....mmmmm.....

Jim Fregosi?

[HahnSolo]

5 - Darryl Hamilton, 2001

[HahnSolo]

Could 22 be Mookie Wilson? Wasn't he sent to Toronto the same day as the Viola trade with Minnesota in 1989?
But I would think Mets fans would have noticed. I know I did.

[Valadius]

16 - Tony Fernandez, 1993.

I think.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Fregosi -- wrong
Hamilton -- wrong

Selma -- right
Mookie -- right: I was rewferring to Viola trade, only because it was announced later that day. Mook was hitting barely over .200 at the time.
Fernandez -- right.

[Valadius]

31 - George Theodore, 1974.

[HahnSolo]

10 - Jesse Orosco, 1987

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Theodore right

Orosco right

If I failed to acknowledge it above, Saberhagen is right.

We have to be nearing the end of this.

[G-Fafif]

Four left, if I'm following. Of three of these I'm certain:

11. Who are we? We were teammates for a few seasons and we both ended our Met careers on the same day -- but in different games of a doubleheader -- as pinch-hitters. In the first game, one of us whiffed and stayed in the game at first base. In game 2, the other guy singled. We were traded to Los Angeles together. HICKMAN, HUNT 1966

18. I singled in three at-bats, finishing my third year with the Mets and the third straight year of declines in home runs, doubles and batting average. Before I got any worse they traded me. VENTURA 2001

41. My last appearance as a Met was flying out to right as a pinch-hitter: Not a bad decision if you ask me. TORRE 1977 (player-manager; clever)

This one is troublesome:

5. My Met career -- and as it turned out, my MLB career -- ended on a collision.

The only answer I can offer with any certainty is MILLAN, who crashed into Ed Ott and never played in the bigs again, but his last Met/MLB game was in 1977 (later he was sold to the Taiyo Whales) and the only year that hasn't been filled in, if I'm tracking this correctly, is 1976. The only Mets whose Major League careers finished with the Mets in 1976 were Jay Kleven, Billy Baldwin and Leon Brown. I can find no evidence that any of them suffered an untimely demise, plus you haven't really dabbled in the uberobscure for other answers (Rob Gardner's game is mildly famous), so I'm going to respectfully ask:

Have you made a mistake and used two 1977s?

If you haven't, I apologize for doubting your thoroughness. And even if you have, a kick-ass quiz...and a kick-ass job of answering all around.

(If I have to go with a guess from the remaining three 76ers, I'm going to say Baldwin, but I really do believe the answer here is Millan, '77 or not.)

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I don't recall promising this quiz was on the level. Yes, looks like I effed the Millan one up too. I was wondering why it wasn't guessed sooner.

Hickman & Hunt is correct.

Ventura of course.

Torre, yes.

[MFS62]

Could #2 be the mysterious Bill Graham?

Later

[HahnSolo]

So, is it Torre or Staub for #41?
edit: you gave Yes answers for both.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

41. was torre

34. In my final appearance as a Met, I ended the game -- and season -- on a pinch-hit groundout. They gave me a big hand anyway.
was Staub in 85

[Valadius]

No, because #2 was Rob Gardner.

[nymr83]

is Benitez #25 or #28? you listed him as the correct answer to both.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

25.

44-question quizzes are murder.