Hey Nineteen

[Edgy MD]

Close your eyes, picture a Met wearing number 19. Now open your eyes and tell me that Met's name.

(And puh-leeze don't make up some John Stephenson story if he's not really your first guy.)

Looks to be a good number for recidivist careers.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

It's close between him and Bobby O, but Young stuck around for a while. A "19" on slumped shoulders may be my definitive mental image of AY's era.

[Edgy MD]

I was torn between Lenny Harris and Tim Foli, but the girth and corn rows reinforces the image of Harris.

Foli's case gets augmented by a minor conflation with Ron Gardenhire --- both being white shortstops wearing 19 and sporting wispy mustaches. Sort of bookended the Torre era, too.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Definitely Bob Ojeda. In fact, he's the only player I can say with certainty wore 19.

If you gave me 1,000 guesses, I wouldn't have picked 19 for Anthony Young. (On second thought, I probably could have gotten it in less than 50 guesses, but you get the idea.)

I think that by the time Young (and Ryan Church) came along, I had pretty much stopped noticing uniform numbers.

And... I thought Tim Foli wore 11 the second time around?

[TransMonk]

Bobby O, with Lenny Harris and Roger Cedeno finishing 2nd and 3rd.

[Edgy MD]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: And... I thought Tim Foli wore 11 the second time around?

Without checking, I'm going to guess no, and that you've got Foli II blurred with Tom Veryzer.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Entirely possible. The 11's were coming fast and furious for a while there.

[Guest themetfairy]

Bobby O

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Did you know they assigned Zach Lutz 19?

Not a good sign for Herrera, though he was off the 40 and will be missing for the year anyhow, I can't help but think we've seen the last of him.

I clicked Anthony Young as soon as I saw him, but given some thought I might also have said Ojeda or Gardenhire.

[Fman99]

Bobby O. I can't picture anyone else wearing it, mostly because I've actively blocked out the Cedeno years.

[Edgy MD]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Did you know they assigned Zach Lutz 19?

Yeah, that's what triggered this very important poll. Don't really associated it with thirdbasemen. More typically with going-nowhere white middle infielders.

[soupcan]

Tim Foli.

The rumor was that the basketball coach at the high school I attended my jr. and sr. years was Tim's brother Ernie Foli. Don't know if it was true, but I believed it.

[MFS62]

I voted Gardenhire.
First one who came to mind.

Later

[Valadius]

Cedeno.

[Theoldmole]

Hard not to pick Ken MacKenzie (well, only for two of us), but I went with Bobby O.