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Centerfield wrote: Are they counting his entire 2015 or just his Mets-related part? He had an .870 OPS overall in 2015. He had a higher OPS in both 2016 and 2017. And another season at .861 in his rookie season with Oakland. Whole season. Because Yo's 2015 wasn't entirely as a Met, I phrased the top post the way I did.
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Here's the article link: https://pudding.cool/2018/04/one-hit-wonders/ Two other one time Mets made the list, though not for Mets connected seasons-- Hideo Nomo and Cliff Floyd.
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batmagadanleadoff wrote: seawolf17 wrote: According to B-R, Dykstra had a 6.6 WAR in 1993 -- but an 8.9 WAR in 1990. (!!) And so this post answers FAFIF's question about Dykstra. Plus, Dykstra in 1993, like Elster three years later, never played for the Mets.
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G-Fafif wrote: seawolf17 wrote: According to B-R, Dykstra had a 6.6 WAR in 1993 -- but an 8.9 WAR in 1990. (!!) Also as alluded to above, I knew his 1990 was good, though I wouldn't have suspected it was THAT good, let alone better than his 1993. Allegedly the Phillies offered him back to the Mets after his indifferent Phillie stint in 1989. Would have been helpful. That woulda been some outfield for a while -- Mitchell LF, Dykstra CF, Strawberry RF.
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Edgy MD wrote: Yoenis Céspedes, 2015. Winner, winner. Chicken Dinner. I suppose you can now figure out why I phrased the top post the way I did.
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seawolf17 wrote: According to B-R, Dykstra had a 6.6 WAR in 1993 -- but an 8.9 WAR in 1990. (!!) And so this post answers FAFIF's question about Dykstra.
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G-Fafif wrote: Apologies for possibly violating the code of consecutive guesses, but just wanted to throw Dave Magadan's outstanding 1990 into the conversation. Probably not high-profile enough to be the answer, but it really was the outlier of his otherwise "oh yeah, him" career. It was certainly the best Dave Magadan-style season one could have imagined. Nope on Magadan. Without studying either the author's methodology or player stats, and just on a "feel it out" basis, I would've thought that Magadan's 1990 was a bigger outlier than the as yet unsolved answer to this quiz.
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cooby wrote: Ah! On the 30 years thing. I thought perhaps as an exMet he was your connection The remaining answer played for the Mets during the outlier season in question.
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cooby wrote: Mike Scott ‘86' I love Mike Scott. But '86 was more than 30 years ago; Scott wasn't a Met that season; and '86 wasn't as much of an outlier as the other seasons on the author's list. Scott had a run of five or six straight seasons where he was one of the league's top 10 pitchers every year.
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G-Fafif wrote: Can "Mets-connected" be expanded upon without giving away the answer? I've tried to when I wrote the first post. This is the best I could do. Did I provide the best possible phrased clue or do the limits of my abilities prevent me from doing better? Beats me. I dunno? I could rephrase that, but I think I'd be making the answer a lot easier to solve. Maybe that in itself is a clue.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Pat Mahomes, 2000? Get that shit outta here.
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G-Fafif wrote: On the Mets-connected train, Kevin Mitchell's 1989 season (asked above)? I thought I answered this one but my post apparently disappeared. Gremlins! Mitchell '89, like Torre '71, didn't play for the Mets. And on top of that, Mitchell '89 didn't make the author's list, irrespective of what team he played for in '89.
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batmagadanleadoff wrote: HahnSolo wrote: Dickey 2012? i Nope, but good guess, I would think. Maybe not such a great guess, on second thought. Dickey was pretty terrific in 2010 and 2011. The players on this list have huge gaps between their best seasons and the rest of their careers.
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HahnSolo wrote: Dickey 2012? Nope, but good guess, I would think.
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Edgy MD wrote: Good point. Joe McEwing, 2001. Not on the list. The author was looking for outlier seasons that were all-star or MVP or Cy Young caliber.
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Edgy MD wrote: G-Fafif wrote: BTW, is "Mets-connected" your way of saying not necessarily two Mets seasons? And in that spirit, I'll guess Joe Torre, 1971. Nope. We're looking for seasons from the last 30 years. And Torre didn't play for the Mets in '71.
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Centerfield wrote: I would guess '96 Todd Hundley. Nope. Jeez does everyone here think that the '96 Mets were comprised of the most fantastically outlier players ever?
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G-Fafif wrote: BTW, is "Mets-connected" your way of saying not necessarily two Mets seasons? Sharp eye, you. It's definitely my way of saying something that I thought needed to be phrased that way, or sort of that way. That's not random phrasing. And nope on One-Dog.
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Yes!
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Some writer determined that Dontrelle Willis's 2005 season was the biggest outlier season in baseball in the last 30 years -- defined as a truly amazing season that wasn't even close, qualitatively, to any other season that athlete had. Of course, everyone's best season is, by definiiton, greater than the rest of that athlete's other seasons. But the writer was looking for career years that were as far apart statistically from the rest of the athlete's body of work, as possible. The author determined the top 30 outlier baseball seasons of the last 30 years. Two Mets-connected seasons appear on that list. Name the players along with the year in question. One guess per post. No two in a rowing.
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Centerfield wrote: And the pitching, as we all can see, is nowhere near 2015. Big yeah. By the time the 2015 Mets transformed into the team that would run away with the division, they had four starters pitching like aces. This year's team has just one ace. Thor's been pretty good, but I wouldn't say he's dominant.
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....yesterday, of the last time David Wright appeared in an MLB game.
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bmfc1 wrote: But at least Sandy saved the Wilpons some money with those deals. Which the Mets are gonna need when they sign Manny Machado in about half a year. Unless they continue to wait for the return of Godot Wright.
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Vic Sage wrote: watching SNY talking heads last night, and they're all quite sure that Nimmo is a nice 4th OFer to have, but not really a starter. Um, fuck youse guys. Anybody with a career .400+ OB% who can play a decent OF (including adequate CF), run and throw well, with some occasional pop, can start for me any day. I'd play him over Bruce in a heartbeat. That's the outfield version of the Dave Magadan argument. .400 OBP territory -- you're talking Hall of Fame standards for, arguably, the most important offensive stat. Yeah.
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Here are the whole league's top ten on-base percentage guys. 1) Trout, M, LAA: .443 2) Betts, M, BOS: .436 3) Freeman, F, ATL: .424 4) Bryant, K, CHC: .418 5) Robertson, D, TB: .417 6) Belt, B, SF: .416 T7) Judge, A, NYY: .412 T7) Markakis, N, ATL: .412 9) Machado, M, BAL: .409 10) Arenado, N, COL: .407 Brandon Nimmo, who (for maddening reasons — It's not like he's been hurt) doesn't have enough plate appearances to qualify, is at .450. FOUR FITTY! Yeah, I've been following that particular stat and leaderboard for about a month, now. Also, Nimmo's leading everybody but Trout and Betts in RC/27. (I love that stat).
