One Fact and Go, 2015

[Lefty Specialist]

Bartolom� was the guy the Mets were REALLY after when they traded away Scott Kazmir in 2004. V***** Z******* was merely a throw-in in that deal. 2006 was a magical year for him- he had a 27.00 ERA and a 1-0 record.

Whaddya tell your mama about Saturo Komiyama?

[MFS62]

Still waiting on Ed Bressoud, which shows an 11:43 posting.
A couple of folks seem to be suffering from premature exclamation.

Later

Edited June 11, 2015 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

An hour late on Bartolom�, man. We're up to Vail.

[Guest sharpie]

Mike Vail was once traded for Rich Gale, an instance of players with ryhming names being traded for each other.

Who knows anything about Hal Reniff?

[Lefty Specialist]

Hal Reniff's nickname was 'Porky'.

And Ed Bressoud finished 26th in the MVP balloting in 1962.

Unity!!!!

So NOW whaddya tell your mama about Satoru Komiyama?

[stevejrogers]

Once was called The Japanese Greg Maddux.

Speaking of guys way over the top overhyped by then current skippers, Bill Pecota.

[MFS62]

SteveJRogers wrote: Once was called The Japanese Greg Maddux. Speaking of guys way over the top overhyped by then current skippers, Bill Pecota.

The infielder is NOT the guy who came up with the statistical models for projecting baseball performance. PECOTA, an acronym for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm.

Tell us a Dennis Ribant fact.

Later

[Chad ochoseis]

First Met starting pitcher to have a .500 season (along with Bob Shaw).

I hear Jorge Fabregas was once a Met. What do we know about him?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

One of the first guys I can remember that the entire Internet Mets community just absolutely hated. Came over in the same trade as Willie Blair for Bernard Gilkey.

Gimmee something on Jason Jacome

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

You mean Jason James Jacome, or J-Cubed?

He pitched in Japan after a stint with the Mets and Indians?

But what about Bill Sudakis, who appears on Met baseball cards yet I have zero recollections of him as a Met?

[Zvon]

Bill homered in 4 consecutive games in his rookie year 1969 for the Dodgers. Mets picked him up on waivers and he did jack shit. Became a Yankee before he hung em' up.
Appeared at the Sadecki Spot.


Who's got what on Butch Benton?

[Edgy MD]

Butch, along with Alex Trevi�o, John Stearns, and Ron Hodges was part of the 1980 Mets catching corps that, I believe, is the only Mets catching corps to go the whole season without a homer.

Surely Darren Reed recalls better memories.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Reed came to the Mets from the Yankees in a multi-player trade for, among others, Rafael Santana. I remember this trade because my friend's little brother, a big Raffy fan, was heartbroken that his favorite Met would be playing for the crosstown hated rivals. I tried to comfort him by telling him that at least Santana would get to wear his old Mets uniform number with the Yankees. Yeah, this post is more of a Santana post than a Reed post.

Give me some Mets stuff about Jack Aker.

[G-Fafif]

Jack Aker was the first wholly new Met to join the club in 1974, debuting on June 16, the latest the Mets have ever gone into a season before bringing in new blood.

What about a thing about Mark Guthrie?

[Lefty Specialist]

After pitching effectively for the Mets, went to the Cubs in 2003 and gave up the 11th inning game-winning HR to Mike Lowell in Game 1 of the NLCS, thereby being at least as culpable as Steve Bartman was in denying the Cubs their first trip to the World Series since 1945.

[MFS62]

So, which Met do you want to know something about?

Later

[Lefty Specialist]

Oops. What's the gossip about Jim Gosger?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Oops. What's the gossip about Jim Gosger?

Jim Gosger played for the Mets in three different seasons without ever appearing on a Topps Mets baseball card as a Met (team picture cards don't count). Tell me something about Bobby Heise, the first Met to accomplish that Topps negative hat trick.

[Edgy MD]

Scouted in an an amateur league by a 21-year-old Bud Harrelson, who had only 19 games in the bigs himself, but was professionally secure enough to recommend his team sign the fellow shortstop.

Anybody got a single fact about Chuck Carr?

[ashie62]

Chuck Carr led the league with 58 SB's in 1993.

Where the heck is Bruce Berenyi?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Scouted in an an amateur league by a 21-year-old Bud Harrelson, who had only 19 games in the bigs himself, but was professionally secure enough to recommend his team sign the fellow shortstop.

Heise stuck around the majors for 11 seasons without ever rising to regular everyday player status. So I don't think that he took anyone's job away. At least not a regular, anyway.