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Who Will Lead the Eleven Mets in Homers

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Who Will Lead the Eleven Mets in Homers  

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  1. 1. Who Will Lead the Eleven Mets in Homers

    • 1) Beltran, currently at 15 and presumably in the clubhouse.
      5
    • 2) Wright, currently at 8 and just getting started.
      14
    • 3) Bay, currently at 7 and historically the sluggingest guy on team.
      2
    • 4) Davis, currently 7 and presumably in the clubhouse.
      0
    • 5) Hairston, currently at 7 and the hottest player on the team.
      0
    • 6) Murphy, currently at 6 and with a Mets homerun championship under his belt.
      0
    • 7) Reyes, currently at 5 and capable of anything. Anything.
      0
    • 8) Pagan currently at 4 and batting among the sluggers.
      0
    • 9) Duda, currently at 3 and blessed with nascent power.
      1
    • 10) Pridie, currently at 3 and playing for a job next year.
      0
    • 11) Turner currently at 2 and needing to make some amends.
      0
    • 12) Evans, currently at 1 but wowing the international league.
      0
    • 12) Harris, currently at 1 and playing for his baseball life. HIS LIFE!
      0
    • 13) Martinez, currently at 1 and born to hit.
      0
    • 14) Nickeas, currently at 1 and born to play soccer
      0
    • 15) Paulino, currently at 1, but saw some cleanup time.
      0
    • 16) Thole, currently at 1, but with a swing like Pete Rose, who twice hit 16.
      0

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Good seasons. Bad seasons. All Met seasons have team home run leaders. Who will it be this year?


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Rooting for DooDoo, suspect it'll be Wright but wouldn't be the least bit surprised that Beltran hangs on and wins.

In a nonrelated news, very cool that 2 Mets are in the top 3 in "hitting" this last in a season. Has that ever happened? I doubt it.


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Olerud and Fonzie, maybe. Or Gilkey and Johnson.


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Eight quick votes already. You people need to fess up on what your favorite boxing video is.


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Beltran.

I didn't watch those videos when they were new. Not going to watch them now.


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Jeromy Burnitz hit seven home runs from April through August of 2002 and then slugged seven in September, and it pissed me off more than it energized me. This is to say late-season tears on futile teams are to be greeted with a dose of circumspection -- especially those rendered by tepidly performing veterans with the initials J.B.


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G-Fafif wrote:
Jeromy Burnitz hit seven home runs from April through August of 2002 and then slugged seven in September, and it pissed me off more than it energized me. This is to say late-season tears on futile teams are to be greeted with a dose of circumspection -- especially those rendered by tepidly performing veterans with the initials J.B.

I picked Bay too.


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G-Fafif wrote:
Jeromy Burnitz hit seven home runs from April through August of 2002 and then slugged seven in September, and it pissed me off more than it energized me. This is to say late-season tears on futile teams are to be greeted with a dose of circumspection -- especially those rendered by tepidly performing veterans with the initials J.B.


Then he played well enough the next season to be tradeable, and we now have Mike Nickeas as a result. I could live with that from Bay.


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Beltran. And the number will be the answer to a trivia question many years from now.

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I think Wright will get over the top. He knows he's the power guy, and he's got some other bats in the lineup -- not power bats, but bats -- that will make people pitch to him.


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Wright has two months. The way he's swinging the bat, four home runs a month seems more than doable-- it's likely.


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I believe Wright will likely get to 15 or 16 home runs before the season ends to catch (or barely) pass Beltran. This thread is depressing.

How many times has a team, in the live ball era, had the team leader in triples having a greater total than the team leader in home runs?* Very likely to happen for the Mets this season.


*I'm not asking as a trivia quiz, because I honestly don't know. I wouldn't expect that it has happened very often though.


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Not sure about individual leaders.
Checked on the most recent 20+ triples guy and that was Curtis Granderson with the '07 Tiggers and he came close. He had 23 three-baggers while Magglio Ordonez edged him out with 28 homers.


For [u:1r37j23r]team[/u:1r37j23r] records, the 1986 Cardinals were the team that jumped to my head where they might have had more triples than HRs for the year (little power, lots of track stars) ... turns out that they didn't but it was close: 58 HRs; 48 3Bs
The current Mets have 73 HRs which is more than double their total of 32 triples.

I suspect you might have to go back to the dead-ball era to find one.


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That made me check back to the 1912 Pirates, who were led by all-time single season triples leader J. Owen (Chief) Wilson, who had 36. They had 129 triples and 39 homers. I'm guessing your "dead ball era" will have many more teams who did that back then.

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Thole and Turner, pissed about their lack of support, powering up this evening.


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    [*:4f1q9ep4]Beltran: 15[/*:m:4f1q9ep4]
    [*:4f1q9ep4]Wright: 14[/*:m:4f1q9ep4]
    [*:4f1q9ep4]Bay: 12[/*:m:4f1q9ep4]
    [*:4f1q9ep4]Duda: 9[/*:m:4f1q9ep4]
    [*:4f1q9ep4]Hairston: 7[/*:m:4f1q9ep4]
    [*:4f1q9ep4]Davis: 7[/*:m:4f1q9ep4]
    [*:4f1q9ep4]Pagan: 7[/*:m:4f1q9ep4]
    [*:4f1q9ep4]Murphy 6[/*:m:4f1q9ep4]
    [*:4f1q9ep4]Reyes: 5[/*:m:4f1q9ep4]
    [*:4f1q9ep4]Evans: 4[/*:m:4f1q9ep4]
    [*:4f1q9ep4]Pridie: 4[/*:m:4f1q9ep4]
    [*:4f1q9ep4]Turner: 4[/*:m:4f1q9ep4]
    [*:4f1q9ep4]Thole: 3[/*:m:4f1q9ep4]
    [*:4f1q9ep4]Martinez: 1[/*:m:4f1q9ep4]
    [*:4f1q9ep4]Nickeas: 1[/*:m:4f1q9ep4]
    [*:4f1q9ep4]Paulino: 1[/*:m:4f1q9ep4]
    [*:4f1q9ep4]Harris: 1[/*:m:4f1q9ep4][/list:o:4f1q9ep4]


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Duda hits dudouble figures.

    [*:2674rlzg]Beltran: 15[/*:m:2674rlzg]
    [*:2674rlzg]Wright: 14[/*:m:2674rlzg]
    [*:2674rlzg]Bay: 12[/*:m:2674rlzg]
    [*:2674rlzg]Duda: 10[/*:m:2674rlzg]
    [*:2674rlzg]Hairston: 7[/*:m:2674rlzg]
    [*:2674rlzg]Davis: 7[/*:m:2674rlzg]
    [*:2674rlzg]Pagan: 7[/*:m:2674rlzg]
    [*:2674rlzg]Murphy 6[/*:m:2674rlzg]
    [*:2674rlzg]Reyes: 5[/*:m:2674rlzg]
    [*:2674rlzg]Evans: 4[/*:m:2674rlzg]
    [*:2674rlzg]Pridie: 4[/*:m:2674rlzg]
    [*:2674rlzg]Turner: 4[/*:m:2674rlzg]
    [*:2674rlzg]Thole: 3[/*:m:2674rlzg]
    [*:2674rlzg]Martinez: 1[/*:m:2674rlzg]
    [*:2674rlzg]Nickeas: 1[/*:m:2674rlzg]
    [*:2674rlzg]Paulino: 1[/*:m:2674rlzg]
    [*:2674rlzg]Harris: 1[/*:m:2674rlzg][/list:o:2674rlzg]

    That's 102 homers so far, tying the third-place 86-76 1976 Mets for 33rd homrunningest Mets team in franchise history --- a team managed by Joe Frazier, led by Dave Kingman (on a record pace until a mid-season injury), and debuting Lee Mazzilli.

    One more homer will tie them at 32nd with Casey Stengel's basement-dwelling 1964 team --- the first team to call Shea Stadium home and led by an anonymous 20-homer season from Charley Smith.


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Willie Harris, who I swore had some power with Washington, hits only his second homer, giving the Mets 103, tying them with Charley Smith's 1964 squad for 32nd best ever among teams called the Mets.

    [*:3thsamdx]Beltran: 15[/*:m:3thsamdx]
    [*:3thsamdx]Wright: 14[/*:m:3thsamdx]
    [*:3thsamdx]Bay: 12[/*:m:3thsamdx]
    [*:3thsamdx]Duda: 10[/*:m:3thsamdx]
    [*:3thsamdx]Hairston: 7[/*:m:3thsamdx]
    [*:3thsamdx]Davis: 7[/*:m:3thsamdx]
    [*:3thsamdx]Pagan: 7[/*:m:3thsamdx]
    [*:3thsamdx]Murphy 6[/*:m:3thsamdx]
    [*:3thsamdx]Reyes: 5[/*:m:3thsamdx]
    [*:3thsamdx]Evans: 4[/*:m:3thsamdx]
    [*:3thsamdx]Pridie: 4[/*:m:3thsamdx]
    [*:3thsamdx]Turner: 4[/*:m:3thsamdx]
    [*:3thsamdx]Thole: 3[/*:m:3thsamdx]
    [*:3thsamdx]Harris: 2[/*:m:3thsamdx]
    [*:3thsamdx]Martinez: 1[/*:m:3thsamdx]
    [*:3thsamdx]Nickeas: 1[/*:m:3thsamdx]
    [*:3thsamdx]Paulino: 1[/*:m:3thsamdx][/list:o:3thsamdx]

    They'd actually have passed that Shea-debuting team by now, if not for a July 26 homer Al Jackson (of all people) hit that season off of Warren Spahn (of all other people).


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Edgy DC wrote:
They'd actually have passed that Shea-debuting team by now, if not for a July 26 homer Al Jackson (of all people) hit that season off of Warren Spahn (of all other people).


Back before that rule was instituted in 2011 forbidding Mets pitchers from showing any kind of hitting aptitude.


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just noticed Beltran leading rbi's as well with 66.
Wright at 58, bay at 57, and Pagan at 56.

Beltran may finish on top of that category as well...


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