Benjamin Grimm

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=DocTee post_id=129767 time=1687695272 user_id=85] The Giant-Red I chose had Metly connections (and a .1% overlap with others who choose him).

My answers for June 24: Rockies-Diamondbacks: -- Rockies-Blue Jays: Jose Reyes 5% Rockies 30/30: Larry Walker 64% Mets-Diamondbacks: Wilmer Flores 3% Mets-Blue Jays: Carlos Delgado 8% Mets 30/30: Howard Johnson 8% Braves-Rockies: -- Braves-Blue Jays: R.A. Dickey 5% Braves 30/30: Ronald Acuna 85%

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My answers for June 23: Tigers-Angels: Frank Tanana 2% Cardinals-Angels: Albert Pujols: 75% Angels .300 hitter: Rod Carew 5% Rays-Tigers: -- Rays-Cardinals: -- Rays .300 hitter: Wade Boggs 20% 20 wins-Tigers: Denny McLain 5% 20 wins-Cardinals: Bob Gibson 28% 20-wins, .300 hitter: Babe Ruth 88%

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Still working on this one. So far I have seven. I have three green boxes in the top row and three green boxes in the bottom row. And I have the third box in the middle row. I can barely think of any Tampa players at all, much less any who also played for the Cardinals or Tigers. (Although I did think of a .300 hitter.) Maybe something will click for me.

Oops... this is the part that got cut off: Southampton 1 Staten Island 1 Stony Brook 1 Suffern 1 Utica 1 West Islip 1 Yonkers 2

Yes, it's everyone, not just Mets players. If we want Mets players born in New York State, here are the numbers for each "city": localhost/leaptoad_umdb/people/ https://cpanel-just2051.justhost.com/cpsess6320448376/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/tbl_sql.php?db=leaptoad_umdb&table=peoplehttps://cpanel-just2051.justhost.com/cpsess6320448376/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/tbl_sql.php?db=leaptoad_umdb&table=people Showing rows 0 - 24 (32 total, Query took 0.0019 seconds.) SELECT birthplace, count(*) FROM `people` WHERE metplayer = 'Y' and birthstate = 'NY' group by birthplace Auburn 1 Binghamton 1 Bronx 4 Brooklyn 16 Buffalo 5 Commack 1 Copiague 1 Farmingdale 1 Flushing 2 Franklin Square 1 Freeport 1 Hempstead 1 Ithaca 1 Jamaica 2 Kingston 1 Long Beach 1 Medford 1 Middletown 2 Mineola 1 New York 15 Port Jefferson 1 Queens 1 Rochester 1 Schenectady 1 Smithtown 1

Edgy MD wrote: It'd be interesting to see what the true five-borough total is there. I'm probably not going to be able to do that, because I'd have to recognize every postal name place in Queens among all of the New York State birthplaces. Bronx and Staten Island would be easier.

Chad ochoseis wrote: I had no idea so many Mets came from San Diego... This number doesn't just represent Mets. It also includes minor leaguers (where the birthplace was available) and opposing players.

I've been noticing that, when players get added to the UMDB, I see some birthplaces much more frequently than others. So I did a quick SQL to see the most common birthplaces of the over 9,500 people in the UMDB for whom I have a place of birth. The city that I thought came up a lot more often than others is the one that's in the lead by a wide margin. Perhaps the most surprising item on the list is Cincinnati, coming in ahead of Brooklyn and Miami, among other places. Mets born in Cincinnati are: Don Zimmer, Roger McDowell, Daryl Boston, Lance Johnson, and Joe Smith. Anyone care to try to recall Mets players from any of these other cities? (This isn't going to be a quiz. I'm not going to be monitoring the responses.) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic215 Los Angeles, California130 San Diego, California101 Houston, Texas90 San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic87 Chicago, Illinois71 Caracas, Venezuela68 Tampa, Florida64 Dallas, Texas63 Cincinnati, Ohio62 Brooklyn, New York61 Miami, Florida61 St. Louis, Missouri60 Long Beach, California58 New York, New York58 Oakland, California54 Valencia, Venezuela52 Sacramento, California50 Santiago, Dominican Republic48 San Cristobal, Dominican Republic47

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I recently did a count, and I've seen regulation major league games in 18 different stadiums, and eight of them are still "active", if that's the correct term. Defunct or inactive: Shea Stadium, Olympic Stadium, Yankee Stadium II, Memorial Stadium, Fulton County Stadium, Riverfront Stadium, Veterans Stadium, Hiram Bithorn Stadium, Comiskey Park, Tiger Stadium. Active: Citi Field, Fenway Park, Camden Yards, Nationals Park, PNC Park, Citizens Bank Park, Safeco Field, Wrigley Field. I've seen minor league games in Brooklyn, Norfolk, Reading, Oneonta, Durham, Knoxville (two different stadiums), and wherever the Carolina Mudcats played. Plus spring training games in St. Lucie and other sites in Florida and Arizona. I once had the goal of seeing games in every major league park, but I lost interest as many of the parks I had already been to started going away, and my desire to see baseball games that didn't involve the Mets dropped to about zero.

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Yeah, I think their best bet at this point is to play better than they have been. We keep getting encouraging outings from Scherzer and Verlander, but then the next time around we get discouraging outings from Scherzer and Verlander. Maybe they can trade someone like Canha or Pham for a starting pitcher of equivalent talent. That might help. They're close enough to the expanded postseason that a hot July can put them right in the thick of things.

Hartwig is actually number 1,202. He's the first new Met since Gary Sanchez.

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I don't have any answers. I'm very curious, though, about what they're going to do about the starting rotation for 2024. They have to do something, but I don't really know what options they have. I find myself longing for the days when they could bring up someone like Tyler Pill!

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