Body Met Index

[Edgy MD]

In seeking the fattest Met ever, we're up against some challenging facts. Few are honest, and little changes. If your 1971 baseball card says you're 195, it's a pretty safe bet that your 1988 card says the same. So, stipulating that (1) official weights are mostly lies, and (2) they rarely if ever change during a player's career, let's acknowledge that they're all we have and hope against hope that the degree of error is the same for everybody, and look at the BMIs of some notably chunky monkeys from Mets history.

Met	Height	Weight	BMI	Category
Bartolo Colon	5'11"	265	37	Morbidly Obese
Mo Vaughn	6'1"	268	36	Morbidly Obese
Butch Huskey	6'3"	244	30	Overweight
Benny Agbayani	6'0"	225	30	Overweight
Sid Fernandez	6'1"	220	29	Overweight
Ramon Castro	6'3"	235	29	Overweight
Rusty Staub	6'2"	215	28	Overweight
Mickey Lollich	6'1"	170	22	Normal Weight

All weights from UMDB, except Colon's, from baseball-reference.

Man, I'm fat.

[Benjamin Grimm]

That 170 for Lolich is legendarily nutty.

[dinosaur jesus]

How about Juan Berenguer, at a willowy 5'11", 215? I think he got fatter after the Mets, though, like Kevin Mitchell.

[Edgy MD]

There are two Juans. Baseball-reference seems to have seen a slimmer man play than UMDB did.

Met	Height	Weight	BMI	Category
bb-ref Juan Berenguer	5'11"	186	25.9	Overweight
UMDB Juan Berenguer	5'11"	215	30	Obese

[MFS62]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: That 170 for Lolich is legendarily nutty.

Both the UMDB and Baseball-Reference have Lolich at 170 pounds. That was either his weight on the day he was originally signed, or he just had one foot on the scale.

Later

[Lefty Specialist]

If Lolich was 170 pounds, I'm George Clooney.

[dinosaur jesus]

Maybe the scale was in kilograms and they forgot to convert. An honest mistake.

[ashie62]

I thought this was for CPF members...

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think the 170 was Lolich's birth weight.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Lolich ran a donut shop southeast of Flint. Unlike that listed weight, that's a true story!

[Edgy MD]

[Lefty Specialist]

That's 170 pounds of donuts right there.