Where Mets Rank in 2011

[Ceetar]

shoot, I did mean to write Active. doh.

[Frayed Knot]

The good thing about the All-Time list with a stat like triples is that with each new one he'll catch & pass several guys at once and move up the list in multiple steps.

With two more, for instance (and, hell, that could be later today), he'll not only leave behind his ties with Bowa, Rollins, Phil Cavaretta, and Jack Tobin, but also leap past Hi Myers and Dan McCann (100 each) and into a new tie for 156th place (101) with Stuffy McInnis, Cupid Childs, and Sam West.




OK, I admit it, I really just put up this post so I could type out some of those names.

[Guest Edgy DC]

All-Time Save Leaders

1) Trevor Hoffman: 601
2) Mariano Rivera: 588 (Active)
3) Lee Smith: 478
4) John Franco: 424
5) Billy Wagner: 422
6) Dennis Eckersley: 390
7) Jeff Reardon: 367
8) Troy Percival: 358
9) Randy Myers: 347
10) Rollie Fingers: 341
11) John Wetteland: 330
12) Roberto Hernandez: 326
13) Jose Mesa: 321
14) Todd Jones: 319
15) Rick Aguilera: 318
16) Robb Nen: 314
T17) Francisco Cordero: 311 (Active)
T17) Tom Henke: 311
19) Rich Gossage: 310
20) Jeff Montgomery: 304
21) Doug Jones: 303
22) Bruce Sutter: 300
23) Jason Isringhausen: 299 (Active)
24) Francisco Rodriguez: 291 (Active)
25) Armando Benitez: 288
26) Rod Beck: 286
27) Bob Wickman: 267
T28) Joe Nathan: 256 (Active)
T28) Todd Worrell: 256
30) Dave Righetti: 252

[Benjamin Grimm]

This is kind of nutty: Daniel Murphy, who hasn't played in about a month, still leads the team in games played this season. This isn't likely to last: Murphy has 109, and there are a few players just behind him:

Murphy, Daniel 109
Bay, Jason 108
Pagan, Angel 107
Reyes, Jose 105
Harris, Willie 105
Turner, Justin 101

[Ceetar]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: This is kind of nutty: Daniel Murphy, who hasn't played in about a month, still leads the team in games played this season. This isn't likely to last: Murphy has 109, and there are a few players just behind him: Murphy, Daniel 109 Bay, Jason 108 Pagan, Angel 107 Reyes, Jose 105 Harris, Willie 105 Turner, Justin 101

the RBI list is pretty nuts too. Bay's 5th. (32 more PAs than Murphy too)

Beltran 66
Pagan 52
Murphy 49
Wright 49
Bay 48
Turner 46
Duda 44

[seawolf17]

That's awful. I remember as a kid being fascinated by "team leader" cards, and how you'd have a guy hitting .260 as the "team leader." (This was before I understood minimum PA requirements.) I always thought, "man, that team must have sucked last year if THAT guy led them in hitting."

So our team RBI leader for the year is going to be somewhere in the mid-60s. Bleh.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm not too down on that. Look at it this way --- we've pretty much had four starting firstbasemen, which is bad. But all four have more or less performed. Nobody accumulates all the numbers, but it beats watching a guy go down and having squishy guys like Miguel Cairo in the lineup all year.

Sucks to get guys hurt, though.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: I'm not too down on that. Look at it this way --- we've had four firstbaseman, which is bad. But all four have more or less performed. Nobody accumulates all the numbers, but it beats watching a guy go down and having squishy guys like Miguel Cairo in the lineup all year.

Well that's true, the Mets have roughly as many RBI as the Phillies as a team. More ties into the games played thing with no one around long enough (besides Bay) to really get a high number.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Duda's lone RBI in the game pushes him past Moises Alou, int a five-way tie with Jesse Gonder, Charlie O'Brien, Felix Mantilla, and teammate Josh Thole at 59. One more and he ties Tom Seaver (and Mike Phillips) at 130th all-time. I think that just about makes a man a Met.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The team lead in games played, after 160 games, is a tie between Jose Reyes and Willie Harris, at 124.

Angel Pagan is next with 123, and then Jason Bay with 122.

Jose has clinched at bats, runs, hits, triples, and stolen bases. He currently leads in doubles with 31, but Justin Turner is right behind him at 30. (Carlos Beltran also has 30, but he's very unlikely to add to that.) Jose will also end up winning all of the "triple slash" categories.

Beltran's 66 RBI is likely to end up as the leader, but David Wright with a strong two days can tie or pass that. (He has 60.)

Among the pitchers, R.A. Dickey will have the best ERA at 3.28, and Dillon Gee's 13 wins will be the most. Dickey will lead in innings with 208.2 and the team strikeout leader will be Chris Capuano, who currently has 159.

And Francisco Rodriguez will be the save leader with his 23.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Start Dickey on the last day and maybe he can pitch his way into the top ten in ERA, and maybe claim a second consecutive Craig Swan Award.

[metsmarathon]

he needs 7 innings of 0-run ball, or 10 innings of 1-run ball to best jordan zimmerman's 3.18 ERA, and make it into the top ten, assuming no other movement among the leaders.

[Ceetar]

It's irrelevant as he's not starting. I imagine he's already shut it down and didn't do his inbetween start work and what not.

[MFS62]

Edgy DC wrote: Start Dickey on the last day and maybe he can pitch his way into the top ten in ERA, and maybe claim a second consecutive Craig Swan Award.

What must one accomplish to earn that prize?

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Craig Swan Award was established in 2010 to honor those who light an ERA candle rather than curse the second division darkness.

Lighting an ERA candle = finishing in the top ten in ERA.
Second division darkness = finishing in the bottom half of a division with an even number of teams or finishing in the center of a division with an odd number of teams, but closer to last than first.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ceetar wrote: It's irrelevant as he's not starting. I imagine he's already shut it down and didn't do his inbetween start work and what not.

I didn't actually think the Mets were going to change their plans in order to help one of their players win an award from the Crane Pool.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Make that two Crane Pool honors: Another start by Dickey could have Schaefer implications as well.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Oooh, yeah. Get it together, Mets.

Meanwhile, who pulled out the plug on the triple machine?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Relief Assignment Dickey came out of the pen to pitch an innnng in Game 161 last year. I don't quite remember why but I seem to recall it being pre-planned.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: Oooh, yeah. Get it together, Mets. Meanwhile, who pulled out the plug on the triple machine?

I suspect it's a combo of Reyes and Collins. And I suspect that suggestion of restraint had more to do with him hesitating around first last night, and getting thrown out when he thought the ball was going home instead of just gunning it.

[Chad ochoseis]

Edgy DC wrote: Relief Assignment Dickey came out of the pen to pitch an innnng in Game 161 last year. I don't quite remember why but I seem to recall it being pre-planned.

I remember it as just a chance to have him finish the season with an appearance at home so he could get a nice hand from the fans.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Ceetar wrote: I suspect it's a combo of Reyes and Collins. And I suspect that suggestion of restraint had more to do with him hesitating around first last night, and getting thrown out when he thought the ball was going home instead of just gunning it.

Interesting strategy. Encourage Jose to play at a somewhat subdued level in the guise of preserving his health, but at the same time emphasizing his fragility to potential off-season suitors.