Eye for All-Star Talent (Immediate Veteran Payoff Quiz)

[G-Fafif]

1. Richie Ashburn
2. Duke Snider
3. Willie Mays
4. Gary Carter
5. Frank Viola
6. John Franco
7. Lance Johnson
8. Mike Piazza
9.
10. Pedro Martinez
11. Paul Lo Duca
12. Francisco Rodriguez

NOT QUITE RIGHT: Bobby Bonilla (first Met season 1992; first Met All-Star selection 1993); Dave Kingman (first Met season 1975; first Met All-Star selection 1976); Johan Santana (first Met season 2008; first Met All-Star selection 2009); T#m Gl@v!ne (first Met season 2003; first Met All-Star selection 2004); Al Leiter (first Met season 1998; first Met All-Star selection 2000); Bret Saberhagen (first Met season 1992; first Met All-Star selection 1994)

[Edgy MD]

Bernard Gilkey.

[G-Fafif]

1. Richie Ashburn
2. Duke Snider
3. Willie Mays
4. Gary Carter
5. Frank Viola
6. John Franco
7. Lance Johnson
8. Mike Piazza
9.
10. Pedro Martinez
11. Paul Lo Duca
12. Francisco Rodriguez

NOT QUITE RIGHT: Bobby Bonilla (first Met season 1992; first Met All-Star selection 1993); Dave Kingman (first Met season 1975; first Met All-Star selection 1976); Johan Santana (first Met season 2008; first Met All-Star selection 2009); T#m Gl@v!ne (first Met season 2003; first Met All-Star selection 2004); Al Leiter (first Met season 1998; first Met All-Star selection 2000); Bret Saberhagen (first Met season 1992; first Met All-Star selection 1994)

NOT RIGHT AT ALL: Bernard Gilkey

[G-Fafif]

Remaining All-Star was a multi-time All-Star as a Met.

[batmagadanleadoff]

[G-Fafif]

1. Richie Ashburn
2. Duke Snider
3. Willie Mays
4. Gary Carter
5. Frank Viola
6. John Franco
7. Lance Johnson
8. Mike Piazza
9. Carlos Beltran
10. Pedro Martinez
11. Paul Lo Duca
12. Francisco Rodriguez

NOT QUITE RIGHT: Bobby Bonilla (first Met season 1992; first Met All-Star selection 1993); Dave Kingman (first Met season 1975; first Met All-Star selection 1976); Johan Santana (first Met season 2008; first Met All-Star selection 2009); T#m Gl@v!ne (first Met season 2003; first Met All-Star selection 2004); Al Leiter (first Met season 1998; first Met All-Star selection 2000); Bret Saberhagen (first Met season 1992; first Met All-Star selection 1994)

[G-Fafif]

Everybody who participated in completing this quiz please feel free to share an MVP award with Bill Madlock!

[G-Fafif]

BTW, good job on Viola, who became a Met in 1989 but after that year's ASG. His first Met-eligible midsummer classic was 1990.

Also BTW, Mays and Piazza wasted no time becoming Met All-Stars, joining the club in May, making it to the big show in July, respectively, in 1972 and 1998.

[seawolf17]

I was going to guess Keef but he wouldn't have fit between Viola and LoDuca. And as I checked it, he only made it to five ASGs.

[Edgy MD]

Interesting. Beltran was relatively pedestrian his first year with the Mets, and stellar (when on the field) thereafter.

Gilkey was stellar his first year, got a nice contract and was almost never good again.

[G-Fafif]

Beltran, I thought, rode the wave of publicity to that first ASG selection, elected to start in 2005 despite getting off an a blah foot as a Met. Between his big postseason in 2004 and his enormous free agent contract, fans couldn't help but punch his ticket.

I remember being surprised Lance made it over Bernard in 1996.