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[Gwreck]

In the history of the New York Mets, there have been exactly two non-pitchers who recorded defensive statistics for the Mets but never got a plate appearance:

Joe Hietpas, catching one inning in 2004

and

???

[Guest AG/DC]

Some other guy.

I'll go with Gary Bennett.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Francisco Estrada? (For the record, I haven't looked anything up yet. I just remember him as one of the early one-game guys.)

[Gwreck]

Fransisco got 4 innings behind the plate (and went 1-2 to boot).

Gary Bennett is a correct answer to the other question. He owns a 1.000 Mets batting average.

[Guest AG/DC]

Wow, I brought the right gun to the wrong fight.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Every guess so far, right or wrong, has been a catcher.

And so was Vance Wilson, who was temporarily a correct answer to this question.

[Gwreck]

The correct answer here is not a catcher.

The player got in 7 games, either as a pinch-runner (never scoring) or an outfielder...playing for Bobby V.

[Mex17]

Is it McKay Christianson?

[Gwreck]

Good guess but nope. Christiansen -- who actually replaced Gary Matthews, Jr. on the Mets roster in 2002 -- was 1-3 as a Met.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Oh... Um... Wayne Kirby?

[metirish]

I've racked my brains and come up with Shane Halter.

[Gwreck]

Wayne got 31 ABs for the Mets in '98.

The correct answer to this question -- guessed by G-Fafif in the other thread -- is Shane Halter.

Shane got in 7 games for the Mets in '99 without a plate appearance. He made 5 pinch running appearances (never scoring) and played a total of 2 and 1/3 defensive innings: 1 inning at SS, 1/3 of an inning in RF and 1 inning in CF.

[G-Fafif]

That's how all my 90s on the Regents became 75s.