Quincy Jets

[Guest Edgy DC]

I just learned about the Quncy Jets from this article, about a schoolboy star who played with them.

But then I checked out their UMDB page, and it turns out that no players from their two seasons as a Met affilliate ever became Mets. Even a one-year affiliate like that Raleigh Mets had five eventual Mets suit up for them (some, like Roadblock Jones, did so not on the way up, but on the way down and out).

Are there any other Met affiliates so unproductive?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Low-level Met farm clubs in 62 and 63 would have been especially poorly populated with actual prospects.

Looking over the rosters seems like Evans Killeen (what a name!) was a former big leaguer.

[ashie62]

The 1967-68 Mankato Mets produced one outing by Jesse Hudson &

Willie Mays in the form of me Charlie Williams. One coach Tom Robson & thats it

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Hagerstown Suns were affiliated with the Mets for two seasons (2005-2006), but produced (so far) six Mets.

Name those Mets.

[metirish]

The Hagerstown Suns were affiliated with the Mets for two seasons (2005-2006), but produced (so far) six Mets.

Name those Mets.[/quote:288r91a8]


I should know this as I was the correspondent for the Suns back then

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Bobby Parnell
Jon Niese
Tobi Stoner
Joe Heitpas
Nick Evans
Carlos Muniz

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The Hagerstown Suns were affiliated with the Mets for two seasons (2005-2006), but produced (so far) six Mets.

Name those Mets.[/quote:ppzkoogg]


I should know this as I was the correspondent for the Suns back then[/quote:ppzkoogg]

What

[metirish]

Nah , nothing like a real correspondent , remember we had the short lived reporting and updates on the minor league teams?. I did the Suns .....I can't think of one guy that made the Mets though. Flores is a Nat.....I remember Gaby Hernandez threw a no hitter....I had Jim Burt and Ambiorix Concepcion as adoptees.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Bobby Parnell
Jon Niese
Nick Evans
Carlos Muniz[/quote:32zdpzc1]
These are correct.

Tobi Stoner
Joe Heitpas[/quote:32zdpzc1]
These are not.

I'm impressed.

[ashie62]

My buddy Carlos Gomez & Fernando Martinez

[Guest Edgy DC]

Nice work. We're done with Hagerstown. We still have some former Suns in the system, though none that have made it so far as a Mets Spring Training camp.

[MFS62]

Low-level Met farm clubs in 62 and 63 would have been especially poorly populated with actual prospects.
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In 1963 and 64, the Mets had a farm team in Salinas in the California League. In 63 it was called C level, and in 64, they changed descriptions with no team/league below an A level, so it became an A level league.

1963:
Bud Harrelson
Dick Selma
Rick Rusteck
Jerry Johnson, a pitcher who never pitched for the Mets, but had 10 major league seasons with other clubs.

1964:
Bud Harrelson
Rob Gardner


EDIT: The 63 team finished last (in an eight team league). The 64 team finished second.
Later

[Frayed Knot]

In 1963 and 64, the Mets had a farm team in Salinas in the California League. In 63 it was called C level, and in 64, they changed descriptions with no team/league below an A level, so it became an A level league.

Yeah, now there's just about four different sub-levels of 'A': high-A, low-A, short-season A, rookie A
I often wonder if that was done out of some ahead-of-the-curve self-esteem issue thing like they do with school kids these days. Like the players would feel better about themselves if they weren't assigned to 'B', 'C' or (god forbid) 'D' ball even though nothing really changed.

Either that or I guess somewhere near Salinas they let it slip away.

[Guest Edgy DC]

That's what I always thought. If I'm a young player who played at C ball one year, it would be excrucitating to get sent back there --- knowing how many steps from the majors that seemed by such a measurement. In reality, it wasn't that uncommon for a guy to jump from C to AA or D to A.

[Frayed Knot]

Or maybe they just thought it sounded too much like they were changing batteries instead of levels.

[MFS62]

IIRC it was announced that it was for the self-esteem of the towns.
How would your town like to be known as a Class D town?
Now they could at least say they were Class A.

Later