Lineup Quiz

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Loving the quizzes this week, so I thought I'd add one in. I thought I might have done this one before, but I asked a fellow 'Pooler who shall remain nameless in case we're both wrong and he doesn't remember it, or at least doesn't remember it well enough to remember the answer.

Many thanks to Ben Grimm and the UMDB for the invaluable research tools.

Two players have started at least one game for the Mets in every lineup position - 1 thru 9. Who are they? One guess per post, please.

[Gwreck]

Daniel Murphy?

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Murph has started at least once in 1-8, but not 9.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Joe McEwing?

[Edgy MD]

Timoniel Perez. Tsuyoshi Shinjo.

[HahnSolo]

Shinjo is definitely right...I remember because I do think we've done this before. But I don't have a guess at the other.

[G-Fafif]

Benny Agbayani.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Shinjo and Agbayani it is.

[Centerfield]

I can't imagine how dark a place the team is in when Tsuyoshi Shinjo is batting 3 or 4.

As bad as things are now, I guess at one time they were worse.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Shinjo hit cleanup fifteen times in 2001. The horror.

[Edgy MD]

He held his own for the first handful of games. Then things, as they say, morphed into a shape not unlike that of a pear.