U(MDB) Bastard(o)

[G-Fafif]

Antonio Bastardo's last Mets game should be listed as 7/30/2016, the night they retired Piazza's number as well as everybody's patience where the slowest lefty who ever lived between pitches was concerned. Thank you for your indulgence.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Thanks for pointing that out. It's been fixed.

I checked to see if there were any other similar problems and I found one: Justin Ruggiano had the wrong first game: July 31 instead of July 30. These values get updated automatically whenever I paste in a box score, but something must have gone wrong when I pasted the July 30 box score.

[G-Fafif]

I thank you and posterity thanks you.

[G-Fafif]

Mac Scarce, No. 44 in 1975 (per latest edition of MBTN, BB Ref, 1975 yearbook and 42-year-old memory), is listed on UMDB, both on his player page and the numbers page, as No. 33.

Anywhere else, I'd say, "believe it or not, the subject of Mac Scarce's number came up in conversation last night," but here it doesn't seem like something I'd have to convince anybody of.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'll have to defer to John Cougar Lunchbucket on this one...

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I will look it up, it's possible Mac was overlooked when I ported my data to the umdb

[G-Fafif]

Jim Gosger was acquired from the Pilots on July 14, 1969, as a player to be named later from the Greg Goossen deal on February 5. He is listed on UMDB as purchased from the Pirates on September 9, which was two days after his first game as a Met. He had been with Tidewater for 58 games in '69.

The Cubs' acquisition of Rene Rivera by waiver claim on August 19, 2017, same day as what is now known as the Jacob Rhame trade, has not been added to the transactions page. Sure, you and I know it happened, but what of future generations?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm afraid I've been a somewhat neglectful steward of the UMDB lately. Thanks for pointing out the Rene Rivera thing. As for Jim Gosger, I don't know what happened there, but it's been corrected.

I also still have to add the Neil Walker trade to the Brewers (once known as the Seattle Pilots) but I'm waiting for the players to be named later.

[G-Fafif]

Keeping in touch with Stockholm soaks up a lot of a steward's bandwidth.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Yankee fans must be reading the UMBD because Tyler Clippard is an all-time more popular look-up there than Noah Syndergaard.

[G-Fafif]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I also still have to add the Neil Walker trade to the Brewers (once known as the Seattle Pilots) but I'm waiting for the players to be named later.

Eric Hanhold's his name, RH relieving is his game.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The trade has been officially logged in the Ultimate Mets Database.

Some day, Eric Hanhold will be a household name. At least, in his household.

[G-Fafif]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The trade has been officially logged in the Ultimate Mets Database. Some day, Eric Hanhold will be a household name. At least, in his household.

The Hanhold household?

I wonder what Paul Householder is up to.

[batmagadanleadoff]

The UMBD 2017 Mets page lists a "Nick Carr". Who's that?

http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/metannual.php?ThisYear=2017

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Short term replacement for Peter Criss, makeup was "The Fox"

[Benjamin Grimm]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: The UMBD 2017 Mets page lists a "Nick Carr". Who's that? http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/metannual.php?ThisYear=2017

UGH! Thanks!

What happened was, after a recent September callup, I had accidentally activated the wrong minor leaguer. I thought I had fully fixed my mistake, but I guess I missed a step.

Nick Carr no longer appears on that page.

[Edgy MD]

He lasted longer than The Fox.

[seawolf17]

Edgy MD wrote: He lasted longer than The Fox.

Right, but what did he SAY?

[G-Fafif]

I notice the Other Teams drag down menu continues to list the Florida Marlins rather than the Miami Marlins. Don't know if this is an aesthetic call or a detail that escaped the Ultimate arbiter's attention when the Marlins rebranded in 2012.

[Benjamin Grimm]

You really keep me honest!

No, this one's an oversight. The lack of an update to the name of the Angels, however, is intentional.

[batmagadanleadoff]

A few years ago, you created graphs for each player, showing which games they played (and didn't play). I forgot how to access those.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Select a season, then click the Charts and Graphs tab.

http://leaptoad.com/mets/metannual.php?ThisYear=2017&tabno=C

[Edgy MD]

If I select 1890-1961 from the SEASONS menu, I totally get 404'd. And then I feel sad.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Thanks for letting me know! I'll take a look when I get a chance as part of my ongoing effort to make the world less sad.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Please give it another try.

[Edgy MD]

That's great, thanks.

Perhaps the menu should be titled "YEARS," since it covers the whole year, beyond the baseball schedule, and it includes years without any Mets season at all.

Also, perhaps pre-1962 years could appear on that menu that include dates beyond the birthdays of Mets uniform personnel, like finding Joan Payson's birth in 1903, or finding the birth of Polo Grounds III in 1891.