Future Met Lineups That Might Be Expensive to Outfit

[Guest Edgy DC]

Inspired by our side coversation in the IGT about the paucity of letters on the backs of Met uniforms today, I realized the team's current prospect list looks to possibly effect the opposite situation. (Or situate the opposite effect.)

c: Blaquiere (9 letters)
1b:I dunno --- Pascucci? (8 letters)
2b: Hernandez (9 letters)
3b: Rodriguez (9 Letters)
ss: Valdespin (9 letters)
lf: Den Dekker (9 letters)
cf: Nieuwenhuis (11 letters)
rf: Maldonado (9 letters)

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Plus, with den Dekker, you'd have to get into different-sized specialty letters and all, plus tricky kerning.

Dykstra for first?

[Guest attgig]

Nicholas Santomauro ?

LF'er... maybe he can play some first as well =P

there's also a Kurt Steinhauer who's also an of'er.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Good call. But he was terrible last year and I'm guessing he's done.

[Guest attgig]

Now, if we have a team with more than one rodriguez... that would mean an extra letter, right?

if we still had fernando rodriguez and a new rodriguez came, we'd have some more letters...

now...if we could find an extra K Nieuwenhuis, we'd be in business

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Every penny counts with the Mets now, I'm thinking maybe the rare letters might be more expensive, as are double-wides like W.

[G-Fafif]

2012 Mets to announce return to "classic, clean" nameless look on backs -- home and road.

And are numbers REALLY necessary?

[Ceetar]

attgig wrote: Now, if we have a team with more than one rodriguez... that would mean an extra letter, right? if we still had fernando rodriguez and a new rodriguez came, we'd have some more letters... now...if we could find an extra K Nieuwenhuis, we'd be in business

There was a 'prospect' in Spring Training on the back field, wearing #7, named Reyes. No matter how talented the kid might be, that's an awfully big burden to carry isn't it? Or, it's literally Jose's old uniform and they're saving money..

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Now we know by they signed Hu this winter -- and why they waited so long before bringing Isringhausen back!

[ashie62]

B-Met Pitcher Chris Schwinden (9)
Buffalo P Taylor Tankersley (10)

[Willets Point]

For my son's soccer team we just wrote the kids' names on the back of their t-shirts with a Sharpie. Could work for the Mets.

And hey, it's would be nice work for sharpie.

[TransMonk]

Not future, but historical, with apologies to Ben if he was working on this:

Past Metly Lineups According to Name Characters

For our purposes here, spaces and apostrophes count as 1 character (Lo Duca = 7, D'Amico = 7). Also, in games with a DH, the pitcher's name is not counted, otherwise, the pitcher's name is included. All players are from the starting lineup. Sorry, no relievers, pinches or substitutes.

Shortest Battery = 8 charcters (20 times)
Ryan/Dyer x11
Webb/Dyer x3
Swan/Dyer x1
Stone/May x1
Gee/Thole x5

Longest Baterry = 20 charcters (13 times)
Sutherland/Cannizzaro x3
Richardson/Stephenson x1
Isringhausen/Castillo x2
Isringhausen/Stinnett x7

Average Battery = 12.62 charcters


Shortest Infield = 18 charcters (2 times)
Davis/Hu/Reyes/Wright x2

Longest Infield = 36 charcters (2 times)
Clendenon/Martinez/Aspromonte/Harrelson x2

Average Infield = 27.02 charcters


Shortest Outfield = 13 charcters (43 times)
Agee/Mays/Staub x4
Hahn/Mays/Staub x4
Jones/Agee/Hahn x4
Jones/Hahn/Agee x17
Jones/Mays/Agee x6
Jones/Mays/Hahn x2
Jones/Mays/Agee x2
Jones/Otis/Agee x4

Longest Outfield = 29 charcters (14 times)
Henderson/Youngblood/Washington x14

Average Outfield = 20.23 charcters


Shortest Lineup = 44 charcters (1 time)
June 18, 1968 vs. Houston
Bosch CF
Linz 2B
Jones LF
Grote C
Charles 1B
Buchek 3B
Agee RF
Weis SS
Ryan P

Longest Lineup = 74 charcters (3 times)
May 1, 1985 vs. Houston
Chapman 2B
Gardenhire SS
Hernandez 1B
Strawberry CF
Foster LF
Knight 3B
Christensen RF
Reynolds C
Darling P

April 28, 1989 @ Houston
Dykstra CF
Jefferies 2B
Hernandez 1B
Strawberry RF
McReynolds LF
Johnson SS
Carter C
Magadan 3B
Fernandez P

May 17, 1989 vs. LA Dodgers
Wilson CF
Johnson SS
Hernandez 1B
Strawberry RF
McReynolds LF
Jefferies 3B
Teufel 2B
Lyons C
Darling P

Average Lineup = 59.93 charcters

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wow.

[seawolf17]

Edgy DC wrote: Wow.

This.

[G-Fafif]

Great work, Monk. If Hu was in for Murphy and Pagan was back in center, we'd set the record tonight. We have a 48-character lineup, but replace Pridie with Pagan and Murphy with Hu, we'd be down to 43.

I'll be watching this like an insane person for the rest of the year -- or until Hu is released.