Quiz in Honor of FRANK TAVERAS Matt den Dekker *It's Here*

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G-Fafif wrote: That was tough. My three would-be guesses yielded one right answer (Pfeil). Don't see Jay Bell or Butch Benton up there.

Bell missed the top 10 by a few players, and Benton only had 25 Mets AB's. The 10th ranking player on the list, Amos Otis, was homerless in 152 Mets AB's, edging Kevin Baez by one at bat.

[G-Fafif]

Butch Benton is the catcher of the future. I'm still banking on that breakout year.

Him or Luis Rosado

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Butch Benton is the catcher of the future. I'm still banking on that breakout year. Him or Luis Rosado

What? No Ike Hampton? I wonder which of those three had more appearances in the future stars section of Mets yearbooks?

Here's the LHP and RHP answers to this quiz:

[Edgy MD]

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OE: Oh, crap, I rebused up my guess and the quiz is over.

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[Lefty Specialist]

I never would have thought of Davegoatfonz Fourfourbaseball.

[G-Fafif]

Ruben Gotay teamed with Jose Reyes on a singular four-bagger feat on July 12, 2007.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Mets have had all sorts of adventures during their 46 seasons. What happened Thursday night, however, they had never done before. Jose Reyes and Ruben Gotay opened with consecutive home runs for the first time in franchise history, and New York beat the Cincinnati Reds 3-2 Thursday night. New York needed both drives, some daring baserunning by Lastings Milledge and six sharp innings from Orlando Hernandez to win its first game of the second half. Reyes, fresh off his three-hit performance in the All-Star Game, led off the bottom of the first with his fifth homer and Gotay followed with his fourth, both against Bronson Arroyo (3-10). It was the third time this season that the Mets hit back-to-back homers but the first time in 7,238 games the club opened that way. "I don't know if they were mistakes," Arroyo said. "I threw the pitch I wanted to Reyes. The other one [to Gotay] was a 2-1 breaking ball. I was surprised he hit it out of the park." It was a strong start in the first game since New York dismissed hitting coach Rick Down and added Rickey Henderson to the coaching staff. It has not been decided whether Henderson or first base coach Howard Johnson will replace Down, but Johnson filled the role against Cincinnati. New York also jettisoned 48-year-old Julio Franco, who hit only .200 in 50 at-bats with one home run and eight RBIs, and promoted Milledge from the minors.

A busy Thursday night.

[seawolf17]

Lefty Specialist wrote: I never would have thought of Davegoatfonz Fourfourbaseball.

Thank goodness; I thought I was the only one.

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DIFFICULTY RATING: DIFFICULT

Here are your most prolific unprolific Mets career HR hitters, ranked by # of AB's, in descending order. Thank you for playing.




I'm re-opening up this quiz because I left someone out of the top 10. I had my list of homerless Mets who might make the top 10, and when I culled those to make my top 10 list, I left this guy out. I remembered I left him out because, crazy Mets fan that I am, I was thinking about him just now in some other context, and realized that I left him out of this quiz. So Amos Otis is bumped out of the top 10 for this other guy.

Here's a hint: He came to the Mets with a World Series ring from some other org.

[Edgy MD]

Fringey catchers who probably profiled best as backups, but were given semi-regular starting roles by bad teams, along with failed utility infielders, generally from Met teams who had other problems big enough that they didn't bother jettisoning failed utility infielders.

The outlier, to me, is Donnels, who at least had middling power through the minors. You'd guess he'd've run into one or two or ten.

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Here are your 10 most prolific unprolific Mets career HR hitters, ranked by # of AB's, in descending order. Thank you for playing.




The next five:

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Frank Taveres Hit his lone Met HR against Mike Lacoss and the Reds on 6/18/79.

Among Mets who've homered only once for the franchise, Taveras has the most career Mets at-bats. By far.

Wanna quiz the next 10? Position players only.

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[Edgy MD]

Anderson Hernandez.

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Edgy MD wrote: Anderson Hernandez.

No, but two of his teammates make the next 10.

[Edgy MD]

Alex Cora.

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Frank Taveres Hit his lone Met HR against Mike Lacoss and the Reds on 6/18/79.

Among Mets who've homered only once for the franchise, Taveras has the most career Mets at-bats. By far.

Wanna quiz the next 10? Position players only.

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Most at-bats; one Met HR - position players only

1 Frank Taveras - 1,480
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5 Alex Cora - 440
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the eponymous Matt den Dekker?

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Bob Bailor.

[Edgy MD]

Jeff Duncan (R-SC)

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Brett Butler.

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Frank Taveres Hit his lone Met HR against Mike Lacoss and the Reds on 6/18/79.

Among Mets who've homered only once for the franchise, Taveras has the most career Mets at-bats. By far.

Wanna quiz the next 10? Position players only.

3 4 7 8 10 11


Most at-bats; one Met HR - position players only

1 Frank Taveras - 1,480
2 Bob Bailor - 797
3
4
5 Alex Cora - 440
6 Brett Butler - 367
7
8
9 Matt den Dekker - 210
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11

[G-Fafif]

Tim Foli.

[Edgy MD]

Jose Oquendo, prototype for Rey Ord��ez.

[G-Fafif]

Rod Gaspar.

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Frank Taveres Hit his lone Met HR against Mike Lacoss and the Reds on 6/18/79.

Among Mets who've homered only once for the franchise, Taveras has the most career Mets at-bats. By far.

Wanna quiz the next 10? Position players only.

3 4 7 8


Most at-bats; one Met HR - position players only

1 Frank Taveras - 1,480
2 Bob Bailor - 797
3
4
5 Alex Cora - 440
6 Brett Butler - 367
7
8
9 Matt den Dekker - 210
10 Jeff Duncan - 154
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batmagadanleadoff wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Frank Taveres Hit his lone Met HR against Mike Lacoss and the Reds on 6/18/79.

Among Mets who've homered only once for the franchise, Taveras has the most career Mets at-bats. By far.

Wanna quiz the next 10? Position players only.

7 11


Most at-bats; one Met HR - position players only

1 Frank Taveras - 1,480
2 Bob Bailor - 797
3 Tim Foli - 719
4 Jose Oquendo - 517
5 Alex Cora - 440
6 Brett Butler - 367
7
8 Rod Gaspar 229
9 Matt den Dekker - 210
10 Jeff Duncan - 154
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Each of the two remaining players played their Mets home games in two different stadiums.

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Al Moran.

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: Each of the two remaining players played their Mets home games in two different stadiums.

They're both middle infielders.

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Each of the two remaining players played their Mets home games in two different stadiums. They're both middle infielders.

They both have the same first name initial.