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The original supermodel.

Josh Edgin has altogether left the building, signing a minor league deal with the Orioles after being removed from the Mets' 40-man roster. He kind of burst on the scene in Spring Training 2012, showed some promising stuff upon his July recall. Has been around long enough to have given up the last home run a Met pitcher gave up to Chipper Jones, the HOF choice of 183% of CPFers. Best moment: Pulling out a save on a 1-2-3 DP off the bat of Mr. Bryce Harper when Familia was melting down last April in Washington. Worst moment: Missing all of 2015, but at least he got a taste of the next year's playoff race. Lingering off-field impression: In one of those surveys of what the players were into, his favorite show was some awful-sounding Duck Dynasty knockoff reality show.

41Forever wrote: I don't think Buster understands what gerrymandering is. It's when you replace your manager overnight with Gerry Manuel.

Also indicative of what kind of ending it was, three of the News entries were Metro Finals, essentially placeholders until game stories (not about the Mets) could get big play. Come September, it was surprising that the Mets got substantial coverage in the Mets scorecard.

The back pages celebrating the spate of thrilling late-season Mets wins that captured the city's imagination seem to be missing.

If you had one more bullet, you shoot O'Malley twice.

Re Post banner atop July 23's back page, it appears Giants took eyes off title.

“The American Revolution, we don’t have statues of King George. He lost, he’s out. World War I, the people who lost, we don’t have statues. Otherwise, the Mets would have a statue every year.” —Mets fan John Leguizamo regarding the continued existence of Confederate statues, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, November 22, 2017

Centerfield wrote: Anyone know Eno Sarris? Brilliant? Full of shit? Would have to examine his first 50 paragraphs and then decide what the trajectory of his career will be. Actually, he wrote a really good piece about about trying to talk advanced stats to ballplayers.

“Well, first in the National League, it was the Mets over the Braves, three to two...” —Setup to joke in the first set David Letterman performed on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, November 24, 1978, featured on David Letterman: The Mark Twain Prize, aired on PBS, November 20, 2017 (presented at Kennedy Center, October 22, 2017)

“Where in New York City is the ball dropped every year?” “Citi Field.” —From Jon Stewart’s New York City citizenship test, administered to Conan O’Brien on Conan (in NYC), November 7, 2017

Years when no Mets received MVP votes; all of them involved losing recrods: 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966 1974, 1977*, 1978, 1979 1980, 1981, 1982 1992, 1993, 1995 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009 2013, 2017 *Tom Seaver received one point, approximately a third of which can be pro-rated to his pre-June 15 tenure if you are so inclined. Twenty-eight National Leaguers recieved MVP votes in 1979, rendering Lee Mazzilli, at least in the eyes of the BBWAA, no more than the 29th most valuable player in the NL that year.

Edgy MD wrote: Chipper Jones' support has reached 125% of the electorate. In tune with Jones's 1999 appraisal, some Mets fan went home, put on his MFY stuff, and voted for him again.

The game reflected on June 15, the one that includes two different Daily News back pages that each have specific game coverage (as opposed to an early edition that's just vamping), was one of the handful of great games of 2017. It's presumably already disappeared from collective memory, but it was a big deal, at least for a few hours. The world champion Cubs had teed off on Harvey, yet the Mets stormed back like sons of a gun (sonsofagun?). Steven Matz pinch-hit in the fourth inning and reached base -- driving in a run in the process. The bullpen was heroic all night. Plus the injuries that had to be overcome. Plus Grandy's 300th. That was the last time in 2017 I was more convinced than not that we were still living in the era of the 2015-2016 Mets.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I never would've gotten David Wright for 2012. When I first checked into this thread, I saw that the 2012 answer wasn't solved yet and I figured if it was a Met, it had to logically be Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey. I can't even remember Wright being so good that recently. In my mind, he was scuffling with one setback or another (stadium or health related) ever since the Mets left Shea Stadium. Wright had a hellacious start to 2012, batting over .400 in late May. That was the year the Giants hyped Pablo Sandoval into the starting All-Star berth at third base, and it was legit highway robbery of David's spot (he made the team as a reserve). Played in 156 games, finished second in WAR, which voters were cognizant of by then. Still, given the Mets' falloff in the second half and his own mid-course correction, I remember thinking by year's end that his traditional line of 21-93-.306 was the modern-day equivalent of Lee Mazzilli's 1979 (15-79-.303) and was surprised when David finished as high as he did for MVP, let alone NL East MVP. Dickey finished 14th in NL MVP voting in 2012, fourth among NL Easterners, behind Wright, LaRoche and Craig Kimbrel. Both Washington and Atlanta made the playoffs.

Johan Santana's comeback, which he was still talking up as recently as 2015, never gained traction, and here he is on the ballot five years after Nohan. Hope he beats 5%, at the very least.

Use of GRAND for not Granderson and BAT MAN for not Harvey is confusing out of context.

2012: Adam LaRoche, Washington Nationals Adam LaRoche, who likely shared his co-MVP honor with his son, is correct. Maybe not correct dragging the kid around the league with him, but he is our final answer. Thanks for playing, everybody! 1969: Tom Seaver 1970: Billy Williams 1971: Joe Torre (NL MVP) 1972: Billy Williams 1973: Willie Stargell 1974: Lou Brock 1975: Greg Luzinski 1976: Mike Schmidt 1977: Greg Luzinski 1978: Dave Parker (NL MVP) 1979: Willie Stargell and Keith Hernandez (Co-NL MVPs) 1980: Mike Schmidt (NL MVP) 1981: Mike Schmidt (NL MVP) 1982: Lonnie Smith 1983: Andre Dawson 1984: Ryne Sandberg (NL MVP) 1985: Willie McGee (NL MVP) 1986: Mike Schmidt (NL MVP) 1987: Andre Dawson (NL MVP) 1988: Darryl Strawberry 1989: Pedro Guerrero 1990: Barry Bonds (NL MVP) 1991: Barry Bonds 1992: Barry Bonds (NL MVP) 1993: Lenny Dykstra 1994: Moises Alou 1995: Greg Maddux 1996: Larry Jones 1997: Larry Jones 1998: Andres Galarraga 1999: Larry Jones (NL MVP) 2000: Mike Piazza 2001: Larry Jones 2002: Vladimir Guerrero 2003: Gary Sheffield 2004: J.D. Drew 2005: Andruw Jones 2006: Ryan Howard (NL MVP) 2007: Jimmy Rollins (NL MVP) 2008: Ryan Howard 2009: Hanley Ramirez 2010: Roy Halladay 2011: Roy Halladay 2012: David Wright and Adam LaRoche 2013: Freddie Freeman 2014: Giancarlo Stanton 2015: Bryce Harper (NL MVP) 2016: Daniel Murphy 2017: Giancarlo Stanton (NL MVP)

To complete the puzzle, we need David Wright's co-winner from 2012, the first year the Washington Nationals were big daddies of the NL East.

Nancy Drew's cousin JD Drew? Gotta be! Must have been a bad year for the East! Yes, J.D. Drew, who snubbed the Phillies as an amateur, was a postseason opponent of the Mets as a Cardinal and Dodger and won a ring as a world champion Red Sock...he was the NL East MVP in his one year as a Brave, in 2004. Good timing, if that's what he was going for. 1969: Tom Seaver 1970: Billy Williams 1971: Joe Torre (NL MVP) 1972: Billy Williams 1973: Willie Stargell 1974: Lou Brock 1975: Greg Luzinski 1976: Mike Schmidt 1977: Greg Luzinski 1978: Dave Parker (NL MVP) 1979: Willie Stargell and Keith Hernandez (Co-NL MVPs) 1980: Mike Schmidt (NL MVP) 1981: Mike Schmidt (NL MVP) 1982: Lonnie Smith 1983: Andre Dawson 1984: Ryne Sandberg (NL MVP) 1985: Willie McGee (NL MVP) 1986: Mike Schmidt (NL MVP) 1987: Andre Dawson (NL MVP) 1988: Darryl Strawberry 1989: Pedro Guerrero 1990: Barry Bonds (NL MVP) 1991: Barry Bonds 1992: Barry Bonds (NL MVP) 1993: Lenny Dykstra 1994: Moises Alou 1995: Greg Maddux 1996: Larry Jones 1997: Larry Jones 1998: Andres Galarraga 1999: Larry Jones (NL MVP) 2000: Mike Piazza 2001: Larry Jones 2002: Vladimir Guerrero 2003: Gary Sheffield 2004: J.D. Drew 2005: Andruw Jones 2006: Ryan Howard (NL MVP) 2007: Jimmy Rollins (NL MVP) 2008: Ryan Howard 2009: Hanley Ramirez 2010: Roy Halladay 2011: Roy Halladay 2012: David Wright PLUS ONE 2013: Freddie Freeman 2014: Giancarlo Stanton 2015: Bryce Harper (NL MVP) 2016: Daniel Murphy 2017: Giancarlo Stanton (NL MVP)

All we need to wrap this up is 2004 (and you may have to be related to Nancy Drew to figure it out) and the co-winner from 2012, who went on to be known as quite the father figure.

2009 Florida Marlin Hanley Ramirez? Florida's choice is correct! 1969: Tom Seaver 1970: Billy Williams 1971: Joe Torre (NL MVP) 1972: Billy Williams 1973: Willie Stargell 1974: Lou Brock 1975: Greg Luzinski 1976: Mike Schmidt 1977: Greg Luzinski 1978: Dave Parker (NL MVP) 1979: Willie Stargell and Keith Hernandez (Co-NL MVPs) 1980: Mike Schmidt (NL MVP) 1981: Mike Schmidt (NL MVP) 1982: Lonnie Smith 1983: Andre Dawson 1984: Ryne Sandberg (NL MVP) 1985: Willie McGee (NL MVP) 1986: Mike Schmidt (NL MVP) 1987: Andre Dawson (NL MVP) 1988: Darryl Strawberry 1989: Pedro Guerrero 1990: Barry Bonds (NL MVP) 1991: Barry Bonds 1992: Barry Bonds (NL MVP) 1993: Lenny Dykstra 1994: Moises Alou 1995: Greg Maddux 1996: Larry Jones 1997: Larry Jones 1998: Andres Galarraga 1999: Larry Jones (NL MVP) 2000: Mike Piazza 2001: Larry Jones 2002: Vladimir Guerrero 2003: Gary Sheffield 2004: 2005: Andruw Jones 2006: Ryan Howard (NL MVP) 2007: Jimmy Rollins (NL MVP) 2008: Ryan Howard 2009: Hanley Ramirez 2010: Roy Halladay 2011: Roy Halladay 2012: David Wright PLUS ONE 2013: Freddie Freeman 2014: Giancarlo Stanton 2015: Bryce Harper (NL MVP) 2016: Daniel Murphy 2017: Giancarlo Stanton (NL MVP)

Fman99 wrote: 2012 was Wright's last passable season. Betcha. Wright is right. 1969: Tom Seaver 1970: Billy Williams 1971: Joe Torre (NL MVP) 1972: Billy Williams 1973: Willie Stargell 1974: Lou Brock 1975: Greg Luzinski 1976: Mike Schmidt 1977: Greg Luzinski 1978: Dave Parker (NL MVP) 1979: Willie Stargell and Keith Hernandez (Co-NL MVPs) 1980: Mike Schmidt (NL MVP) 1981: Mike Schmidt (NL MVP) 1982: Lonnie Smith 1983: Andre Dawson 1984: Ryne Sandberg (NL MVP) 1985: Willie McGee (NL MVP) 1986: Mike Schmidt (NL MVP) 1987: Andre Dawson (NL MVP) 1988: Darryl Strawberry 1989: Pedro Guerrero 1990: Barry Bonds (NL MVP) 1991: Barry Bonds 1992: Barry Bonds (NL MVP) 1993: Lenny Dykstra 1994: Moises Alou 1995: Greg Maddux 1996: Larry Jones 1997: Larry Jones 1998: Andres Galarraga 1999: Larry Jones (NL MVP) 2000: Mike Piazza 2001: Larry Jones 2002: Vladimir Guerrero 2003: Gary Sheffield 2004: 2005: Andruw Jones 2006: Ryan Howard (NL MVP) 2007: Jimmy Rollins (NL MVP) 2008: Ryan Howard 2009: 2010: Roy Halladay 2011: Roy Halladay 2012: David Wright PLUS ONE 2013: Freddie Freeman 2014: Giancarlo Stanton 2015: Bryce Harper (NL MVP) 2016: Daniel Murphy 2017: Giancarlo Stanton (NL MVP)

dgwphotography wrote: sharpie wrote: Roy Halladay for the two in a row I'll take Paul Lynde for the block.. Tragedy plus time.

2012: R.A. Dickey, New York Mets That's not right.