SCHAEFER PLAYER AND PITCHERS OF THE MONTH, SEPTEMBER 2009

[Benjamin Grimm]

SCHAEFER METS PLAYER AND PITCHERS OF THE MONTH, SEPTEMBER 2009

The Schaefer Mets Player of the Month for September 2009 is JEFF FRANCOEUR. Francoeur hit .308 in September and had a .471 slugging percentage, leading the team in both categories, and an on-base percentage of .339. He led the Mets in runs scored with 17. He had 3 home runs, one fewer than team leader Daniel Murphy. Jeff had 32 hits (one fewer than Angel Pagan) and 8 doubles (tied with Pagan, but just behind Murphy's 9.) Murphy and David Wright led the Mets in September with 15 runs batted in. Francoeur, along with Fernando Tatis, was the runner up with 10.

The Schaefer Mets Pitcher of the Month for August is TIM REDDING. Redding had a 1-2 record in September, but led the club with a 3.19 ERA in 36.2 innings over 6 starts. (Only Mike Pelfrey, with 38, pitched more September innings, also in 6 starts.)

And the Schaefer Mets Relief Pitcher of the Month is PEDRO FELICIANO. Feliciano led the Mets in September appearances, with 17. His 2.79 ERA over 9.2 innings matches the numbers posted by Sean Green over 15 games. Green finished third in this month's bullpen Schaefer competition. Ken Takahashi was a close second, trailing Feliciano by 0.76 points. Takahashi has the bullpen's best ERA, 2.70, but only appeared in 10 games.

All three Schaefer honorees this month are first-time winners.


Month-to-date totals for September 2009
Through game of September 30, 2009

Rank	Name	Points
1	Jeff Francoeur	19.08
2	Daniel Murphy	18.65
3	Tim Redding	15.77
4	Angel Pagan	14.19
5	David Wright	13.22
6	Fernando Tatis	12.43
7	Luis Castillo	10.38
8	Carlos Beltran	9.95
9	Cory Sullivan	9.57
10	Mike Pelfrey	9.35
11	Pat Misch	8.49
12	Nelson Figueroa	8.40
13	Josh Thole	7.41
14	Anderson Hernandez	6.75
15	Bobby Parnell	6.53
16	Pedro Feliciano	5.87
17	Ken Takahashi	5.11
18	Wilson Valdez	5.02
19	Sean Green	4.66
20	Omir Santos	4.57
21	Francisco Rodriguez	4.36
22	Brian Stokes	3.42
23	Elmer Dessens	3.17
24	Tobi Stoner	3.06
25	Lance Broadway	2.83
26	John Maine	2.82
27	Jeremy Reed	2.75
28	Brian Schneider	2.63
29	Nick Evans	0.91
30	Gary Sheffield	0.17

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

As always, those cards are the highlight of the month! Kudos!!!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

w-O-w!

Great work, voters. I'm sorry I didn't get around to voting for the last 2 months of the season. I had a crisis of CAHNfidence in my judging abilities affected in part by the fact that I rarely got to see a game all the way through.

Next year, DVR and stuff.

[Guest themetfairy]

Pedro earned the honor one sip of Schaefer at a time.

[G-Fafif]

Love the Francoeur autograph. Of course it's autographed. It's 1971.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Why does that look like Shea behind Redding?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Because... IT IS!

[Guest Edgy DC]

You're deliberately freaking me out with anachonisms?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Well, it wasn't aimed at you. I just figured that a Shea background fits a 1976 card better than a Citi background. (The source photo I used for the card had a grey "studio" background, so I needed to replace it. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. There are other "retro cards" that do have Citi Field backgrounds.)

[Elster88]

Tim Redding as pitcher of the month makes me sad. I'd have been sad if he was Buffalo's pitcher of the month.