Deep Trivia

[Guest AG/DC]

in the eighties, three years in a row, a Met prospect with Lynchburg won the Carolina League pitcher of the year. Who were these blokes and what years are we talking?

[nymr83]

Doc Gooden, probably in '83.

I couldn't even guess at the others.

[stevejrogers]

David West has to be one, 1986.

I'm going to then guess John Mitchell 1985?

[Guest AG/DC]

No on West, whose trajectory took a hiccup at Lynchburg. Interestingly, Steve Phillips threw an inning for '86 Lynchbugers.

No on John Mitchell.

Gooden '83 is very correct. He wasn't so much the Carolina League Pitcher of the Year, as much as the Carolina League Pitcher of All Time.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Blaine Beatty rings a bell. Him or Jeff Bittiger. Book it.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Mickey Weston.

[Guest AG/DC]

Nope. Beatty never played below Jackson.

I'm having trouble accepting that Bittiger never played for the big club.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Randy Myers?

[Guest AG/DC]

Randy Myers, mostly starting for Lynchburg in 1984, went 13-5 with a 2.06 ERA, 171 SO and 61 walks in 157 innings. He's our second cat.

The last guy is hard, as he never tasted big-league coffee, and wondering what hap'd to him is what triggered this ridiculous quiz.

[Guest AG/DC]

Yeah, exactly, how would anybody remember some random Lynchburg Met who never made it to the show?

The third guy was Kyle Hartshorn, and his numbers invite one to ask "Whatever happened to Kyle Hartshorn?" Yeah, he never put up a line like he did in 1985 in L-Burg, but neither do his AA numbers explain why he got frozen there. Yeah, the Mets were packed with pitching, but nobody else seems to have given him a chance, and The Baseball Cube seems to have deleted the pitching numbers from his magic season (but not his batting numbers).

[Vic Sage]

Player Name Age W L ERA G GS CG SH GF SV IP H R ER HR BB SO WP BK H9 HR9 BB9 K9 WHIP
Kyle Hartshorn - 17 4 1.69 25 25 8 2 0 0 170.2 125 45 32 5 53 98 4 6.59 0.26 2.79 5.17 1.04

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Looks like the beneficiary of a big ballpark and good fielders.

[metsmarathon]

45 runs, only 32 of which were earned?! jeez!