Met Count Trivia!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

OK, so the callup of Baxter ended a streak of in-season days without a debuting Met at 71 days since Dale Thayer on May 28 -- the 7th longest such streak of all-time!

I'll give you the debut years and days between of the top 6 pairs, you fill in the players:

1. 1968 (96 days)

2. 1988 (94 days)

3. 1986 (84 days)

4. 1983 (80 days)

5. 1971 (78 days)

6. 1969 (72 days)

7. 2011 (71 days)
Dale Thayer (May 28), Mike Baxter (Aug. 8)

PS, this might be hard but is also kind of cool in a weird way.

[Guest Edgy DC]

1986: Rick Anderson and Kevin Elster.

1969: Wayne Garrett and Donn Clendenon.

1983: Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

2 out of 3 for Edgy. The Hernandez-Darling thing is cool!

1. 1968 (96 days)

2. 1988 (94 days)

3. 1986 (84 days)
Rick Anderson and Kevin Elster (edgy)

4. 1983 (80 days)
Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling (edgy)

5. 1971 (78 days)

6. 1969 (72 days)

7. 2011 (71 days)
Dale Thayer (May 28), Mike Baxter (Aug. 8)

[Guest Edgy DC]

Smoly crap!

1969 and 1968 appearing on this list underscores my point that championship teams are teams that get lucky in the health department. But at least two guys missed PT for military service in 1969, right?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Best I can tell, neither of the '69 duo I'm looking for had military commitments that year. One of them may have, but not sure (?)

I'll throw up some clues later if needed.

[stevejrogers]

1988 Mackey Sasser and Bob McClure

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Good job, Rogers

1. 1968 (96 days)

2. 1988 (94 days)
Mackey Sasser and Bob McClure (Rogers)

3. 1986 (84 days)
Rick Anderson and Kevin Elster (edgy)

4. 1983 (80 days)
Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling (edgy)

5. 1971 (78 days)

6. 1969 (72 days)

7. 2011 (71 days)
Dale Thayer (May 28), Mike Baxter (Aug. 8)

[Guest Edgy DC]

The 71 team is among the Met teams I know the least about.

Ten Met teams I'm most ignorant of:

[*:2qp29sk2]1966[/*:m:2qp29sk2]
[*:2qp29sk2]1971[/*:m:2qp29sk2]
[*:2qp29sk2]1963[/*:m:2qp29sk2]
[*:2qp29sk2]1974[/*:m:2qp29sk2]
[*:2qp29sk2]1964[/*:m:2qp29sk2]
[*:2qp29sk2]1993[/*:m:2qp29sk2]
[*:2qp29sk2]1994[/*:m:2qp29sk2]
[*:2qp29sk2]1975[/*:m:2qp29sk2]
[*:2qp29sk2]1976[/*:m:2qp29sk2]
[*:2qp29sk2]1967[/*:m:2qp29sk2][/list:o:2qp29sk2]

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy DC wrote: The 71 team is among the Met teams I know the least about.

Because I broke my baseball teeth on Strat-O-Matic Baseball 1971, I might still know more about that team than even this year's model. For sure, I know more about the '71ers than any of the Art Howe teams. But I wouldn't have a clue as to the 1971 component of this trivia question. I'd guess that most '71 debutees didn't even have an SOM card -- other than Bob Aspromonte. So that might be a clue even though Aspro doesn't necessarily have to be part of the answer so long as more than two Mets debuted that season.

I just don't know.

[batmagadanleadoff]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Edgy DC wrote: The 71 team is among the Met teams I know the least about. Because I broke my baseball teeth on Strat-O-Matic Baseball 1971, I might still know more about that team than even this year's model. For sure, I know more about the '71ers than any of the Art Howe teams. But I wouldn't have a clue as to the 1971 component of this trivia question. I'd guess that most '71 debutees didn't even have an SOM card -- other than Bob Aspromonte. So that might be a clue even though Aspro doesn't necessarily have to be part of the answer so long as more than two Mets debuted that season. I just don't know.

And Don Hahn. Hahn was another Met who debuted in '71 and had an SOM card. Aspro/Hahn isn't the winning combo though because they were both on the team in April.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Well now that Batmags has taken a swing and missed I will reveal the answers


1. 1968 (96 days)
Al Weis (April 15) and Jim McAndrew (July 21)

2. 1988 (94 days)
Mackey Sasser (April 10) and Bob McClure (July 14) (Rogers)

3. 1986 (84 days)
Rick Anderson (June 9) and Kevin Elster (Sept. 2) (edgy)

4. 1983 (80 days)
Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling (edgy)

5. 1971 (78 days)
Charlie Williams (April 23) and Jon Matlack (July 11)

6. 1969 (72 days)
Bobby Pfeil (June 26) and Jim Gosger (Sept. 7)

7. 2011 (71 days)
Dale Thayer (May 28), Mike Baxter (Aug. 8)

8 by the way was 1974 -- from Day 1 of the season until Jack Aker arrived June 16.