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3. Bob Gallagher

1. Ray Daviault

8. Seth Lugo.

2. 1976-78: 2-16 in 82 games as a Met, his entire MLB career; traded to Texas for Dock Ellis. Mike Bruhert was a previous answer in this quiz, and a one-year Met. So it's gotta be Bob Myrick.

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1 Bob Hendley (v. Koufax)

I wish Flores would get a lot of the PT apparently slated for Reyes.

MFS62 wrote: Starts out the closer, and when he begins to falter a bit, hands the role over to a returning Familia or an emerging Robles. (yes, Robles) When all is said and done, 75 G, 71 IP, 22 sv, 18 H, 2.28 ERA. If Reed gives up just 18 hits in 71 innings pitched, his ERA's gonna be a lot lower than the 2.28 you have him down for. Unless they're all HR's or something.

Ceetar wrote: That's a sloppy BP write-up. Hits dog-whistle LolMets stuff. You're just annoyed that I snuck in a plug for Dan Warthen.

Here's Reed's write-up from Baseball Prospectus' 2016 Annual, published just before the start of the 2016 season: While certain others struggled in high-leverage work earned on name value alone, Reed joined the Mets at the August trade deadline, immediately took over seventh-inning duty and was lights out. For the second year in a row, Reed decided the changeup was surplus to requirements, and lefties haven't shown an ability to handle the slider (17 percent whiff rate versus 10 percent against righties in 2015). Strange then, that Reed attacks hitters like a conventional righty rather than what he is; throwing 40 percent sliders to righties and just 24 percent to lefties may be playing by the book, but it doesn't maximize his potential. If any members of the Reed family are reading this, The Annual makes a great gift! And here's his write-up from this year's BP: Mets pitching coach Dan Warthen has worked some miracles during his time in Flushing, but none may be bigger than turning Addison Reed into a top reliever. Previously a wildly-overrated closer for the White Sox and Diamondbacks, the Mets picked up Reed as a postseason non-tender candidate in a minor August 2015 waiver trade after falling out of favor in Arizona. Right before the trade, he made a mechanical adjustment to his leg kick, and upon arriving in Queens he was reborn with an unhittable slider and elite fastball command. An elevated release point in 2016 caused batters to have even more trouble distinguishing his pitches and kept his slider out of the air -- his 60 percent groundball rate on the pitch was easily a career high, and not a single one left the yard. Reed himself is proof that relievers can be highly volatile, but nothing about this seems unsustainable. _____________ Edgy MD wrote: That's a mug that's begging for a nickname like "Popeye," no? "Meet me in Poughkeepsie and we can discuss this like perfectly reasonable gentleman". [fimg=444]https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5HzdX_TqCSc/UQiJt5I5RFI/AAAAAAAAYaA/5yTN-EzslDY/s1600/GeneHackman.jpg[/fimg]

Here's Harvey's write-up from Baseball Prospectus' 2016 Annual, published just before the start of the 2016 season: On October 23rd [2015], David Wright, Jacob deGrom, Wilmer Flores and Harvey were guests on Jimmy Kimmel Live in front of a live crowd in Brooklyn. The former three could not stop grinning. The captain Wright did the bulk of the interview. Flores spoke of what it's like to cry in front of millions of people, and deGrom's hair became a popular Halloween costume. Harvey trailed off after 10 words, all about Chase Utley. When the segment was over, Kimmel issued Harvey a quick apology, saying he'd run out of time. Harvey didn't seem offended, just uncomfortable, like he didn't want to be there. That's where he always fit with the 2015 Mets, for what ever reason, while everyone else was grinning, there was Harvey with a scowl, always with his own business to attend to. Nonsense story lines about innings limits and model girlfriends and missed workouts didn't make him look like a star, on this team, they made him look like an outcast. On the mound, he wasn't quite the same. The line drive rates on his fastball and changeup soared in 2015, and he got lost in the crowd of so many other incredible young talents. Yet he adjusted and became a more complete pitcher with massively improved breaking stuff, and in the postseason we found out he has real guts. He is, in all likelihood, a good guy and a fine teammate. But now that the narrative ball is rolling, it will be tough to stop. And here's his write-up from this year's BP: Well, The Dark Kniight Rises was a pretty lousy movie by the end. Gotham's former savior was brutal for half the season, and all involved claimed he was healthy, which was alarming because a healthy Matt Harvey should never be that bad. It was almost a relief to find out there was an underlying medical diagnosis -- except the diagnosis turned out to be thoracic outlet syndrome, a nerve and blood vessel issue in the chest and shoulder that has been the bane of many good pitchers' existence. Research by Craig Edwards of FanGraphs and Carl Triano of Beyond the Box Score shows that the range of outcomes for pitchers suffering from thoracic outlet syndrome varies wildly. Some pitchers, like Kenny Rogers and Aaron Cook, have returned healthy and nearly as effective as before, while others never pitched well again, like Chris Carpenter. Overall, the group was a bit worse than their career marks on ERA- and FIP- upon returning, and many had their careers ultimately shortened. But no pitcher has ever had thoracic outlet syndrome as an ace in his twenties, like harvey. We'll start finding out in spring training whether Harvey can start to being Christian Bale in 2017, as the Mets certainly need him to be more than Ben Affleck.

Ken Henderson - 1978

Ken Mackenzie - Yale

Here's Matz's write-up from Baseball Prospectus' 2016 Annual, published just before the start of the 2016 season: Matz started the year in Triple-A and ended it in the World Series; his six career regular season starts were the third fewest of all time for a World Series starter, behind Joe Black (two) in 1952 and Marty Bystrom (five) in 1980. Matz got there by tying up what few loose ends he still had. His fastball generated far more movement in the big leagues than scouts had seen in years past. He gained substantial velocity differential on his changeup against his fastball -- 7 to 8 mph in years past versus 11 mph after his promotion -- [isn't it about time Warthen starts getting his due as a tremendous pitching coach?] just in time to make it a serviceable show pitch to big league righties. He experienced a Harvey-esque velocity explosion. Previously clocked in the low 90s, Matz's 94.6 average fastball velocity was behind only Chris Sale and David Price among left-handed starters. Best of all, before starting Game Four of the World Series, Matz slept at home on Long Island, in his own bed. Not a bad way to cap a year. And here's his write-up from this year's BP: Matz was hot out of the gate in 2016, an early contender for Rookie of the Year before Corey Seager decided that there were no plausible contenders. He reported an elbow problem after a start on May 9, which turned out to be a large bone spur that wasn't publicly revealed for another month and a half, as the Mets danced around the phrase "structural damage." Jon Heyman of FanRag reported around that time that the Mets convinced Matz to continue pitching through pain, and he did with decreasing effectiveness until his shoulder joined the chorus of barking in August. After another month of unsuccessfully trying to get him back on the mound, the Mets finally gave in and shut Matz down at the end of September. Surgery to remove the bone spur followed a few days later. You've probably noticed by now that a lot of these [Mets] comments follow the same formula. When healthy, such and such Met is good/great, but in 2016, that Met wasn't healthy much/at all and the Mets pushed the situation too far. Honestly, this isn't the first Annual in which that's been the case, and you might think at some point, the Mets would consider changes to their medical and training staff. Instead, trainer Ray Ramirez will get booed by the diehards at his umpteenth consecutive Opening Day.

http://www.masnsports.com/nationals-buzz/2017/02/a-baseball-tradition-falls-victim-to-spate-of-online-information.html excerpt: Last spring, New York-based Harris Publications, the latest in a line of “Who’s Who” publishers, closed its doors shortly after the 2016 edition - with Nationals slugger and reigning National League MVP Bryce Harper on the cover - hit the stands. A year after marking its 100th anniversary, “Who’s Who” went the way of scheduled doubleheaders, woolen uniforms and sliding into second base with sharpened spikes raised toward the fielder on the bag. In short, in an era where thorough sites like Baseball-Reference.com provided the same (and more detailed) information, “Who’s Who” became an anachronism. [fimg=444]http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Bb0AAOSwX~dWpwPg/s-l300.jpg[/fimg]

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2 Brock Pemberton

4 Mario Ramirez

Fuck this shit, Kaz Ishii.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: [fimg=555]https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51zOn5Tt4KL._SX385_.jpg[/fimg] Shoulda just typed in the answer. Gah!

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Here's Goeddel's write-up from Baseball Prospectus' 2016 Annual, published just before the start of the 2016 season: Finally, the Mets' doctors have an excuse. Goeddel has had so many arm injuries that, when the team was predictably vague in diagnosing his latest malady in mid-June, he admitted that there was so much scar tissue in his elbow that the doctors literally could not see what was wrong with it. Before then, though, Goeddel had seemed ticketed for high-leverage work, and was solid after returning in September as well. He makes for a different look as a reliever, featuring a splitter and sharp 12-to-6 curve that keep his splits relatively even. So why was he left off the NLCS and World Series rosters after one bad postseason outing, while certain others [Clippard?] received chance after chance? You'd have to ask Terry Collins. Or, you know what, don't even bother.

Swingin' Roy Lee Jackson.

Angel Berroa is the ROY. But he was here a lil bit before 2011.

Reading that 1984 piece, I'm in the mood to jump on the retire-Kranepool's-number bandwagon. Does that bandwagon even exist?