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Not surprising Craig Counsell is likely available and we'll known to Stearns The thing about Counsell is that he's a Wisconsin guy and is supposedly very attached to the area. This all sounds like Stearns wants his own man and it was left to Eppler to do the dirty work. Hence this obviously contrived "voluntary (yeah, right) resignation".

Edgy MD wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Trivia Question Asks: Who was the first player in Mets history to record 10 career homers against the Phillies? Cleon Jones would be my first guess. I'd go Kranepool or Kingman. Ron Swoboda is probably in the mix as well. Rusty Staub, too. I'll also add Frank Thomas, just because these things tend to involve players who played for the day's opposing team. Thomas is interesting. He woulda had to have really bombed Philly, disproportionately so, to hit 10 against them, or any Met opponent. He was a two and a half year Met.

Edgy MD wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Trivia Question Asks: Who was the first player in Mets history to record 10 career homers against the Phillies? Cleon Jones would be my first guess. I'd go Kranepool or Kingman. Ron Swoboda is probably in the mix as well. I'm leaning Kranepool over Kingman. I doubt (without looking) that Cleon even hit 100 HRs in his entire career.

Edgy MD wrote: Trivia Question Asks: Who was the first player in Mets history to record 10 career homers against the Phillies? Cleon Jones would be my first guess. I'd go Kranepool or Kingman.

=stevejrogers post_id=138493 time=1696090530 user_id=57] =ashie62 post_id=138492 time=1696090346 user_id=90] Mets are trying to avoid 90 losses

Or, you know, the Mets could forego the rental for prospects part of the show and hope that Soto opts for free agency, where the Mets could sign him and give up just money to get him, which Cohen has way more of than top-tier prospects. What's wrong with signing someone on an inner circle Hall of Fame trajectory who's just 25 years old?

Bob Alpacadaca wrote: These are statistical arguments. Retiring a number is for recognition for things that go beyond statistics. Casey Stengel has the lowest winning percentage -- by far -- of any Mets manager. But his number is retired, and deservedly so. Apples and oranges. Stengel's number wasn't retired for his on-the-field accomplishments. Just like Willie Mays's Mets #, some 60 years later. No. Not "just like Willie Mays". Mays's number was retired, in large overwhelming part, for accomplishments, symbolic and real, that have absolutely nothing to do with the Mets history. Carter's case should have been made on the field. But I'll indulge: What's Carter's case? What's Carter's case that three dozen other Mets don't have.

Bob Alpacadaca wrote: These are statistical arguments. Retiring a number is for recognition for things that go beyond statistics. Casey Stengel has the lowest winning percentage -- by far -- of any Mets manager. But his number is retired, and deservedly so. Carter's value goes beyond his statistics. How so? And did Tommie Agee's value go beyond statistics?

Mets players ranked by career Mets bWAR all the way down to Gary Carter: 1. Tom Seaver 76.1 2. David Wright 49.2 3. Dwight Gooden 41.6 4. Jacob deGrom 41.2 5. Jerry Koosman 39.5 6. Darryl Strawberry 36.6 7. Carlos Beltran 31.1 8. Edgardo Alfonzo 29.6 9. Jose Reyes 28.2 10. Al Leiter 28.0 11. Sid Fernandez 27.6 12. Jon Matlack 26.6 12. Keith Hernandez 26.6 14. Mike Piazza 24.6 15. Howard Johnson 22.0 16. Brandon Nimmo 21.0 17. Mookie Wilson 20.8 18. John Stearns 19.6 19. David Cone 19.4 20. Jeff McNeil 19.1 21. Bud Harrelson 18.7 22. Cleon Jones 18.1 23. John Olerud 17.3 24. Pete Alonso 17.1 25. Lenny Dykstra 16.5 26. Rick Reed 16.4 27. Ron Darling 16.0 28. Kevin McReynolds 15.8 29. Jerry Grote 15.7 30. Michael Conforto 15.6 31. Tom Glavine 15.3 31. Johan Santana 15.3 33. Francisco Lindor 14.1 33. Dave Magadan 14.1 35. Tommie Agee 14.0 36. Wayne Garrett 13.9 37. Noah Syndergaard 13.7 38. Daniel Murphy 13.2 39. R.A. Dickey 12.9 39. Craig Swan 12.9 41. Tug McGraw 12.8 42. Lee Mazzilli 12.5 43. Juan Lagares 12.4 44. Jesse Orosco 12.3 45. Steve Trachsel 11.7 46. Bret Saberhagen 11.6 46. Wally Backman 11.6 48. Gary Carter 11.4

=metirish post_id=138311 time=1695837503 user_id=72] I voted option 1

=Cowtipper post_id=138307 time=1695836102 user_id=166] Seth Lugo, who was a quality pitcher for the Mets for seven seasons, is 8-7 with a 3.57 ERA in 26 starts for the Padres. He was a strikeout ace while with the Mets, but has averaged less than a K per frame for San Diego since shifting to the rotation.

Edgy MD wrote: I remember this guy from an episode of The Rockford Files. He was waiting on two kilos coming in from Mexico on an avocado truck. https://img.comc.com/i/Baseball/1979/Topps---Base/118/Bud-Harrelson.jpg?id=1cc9e530-4b82-45bf-8d1c-e29d983c1b03&size=original> In that pic, Bud reminds me of the Sheriff's deputy played by Brad Dourif in Mississippi Burning. [FIMG=333]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bFdPE5GmHYI/hqdefault.jpg[/FIMG]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: =batmagadanleadoff post_id=138273 time=1695792441 user_id=68] Here's another one: What's Carlos Beltran's lifetime Mets batting average to the tenth decimal? I'm going to guess .2802425790. (Okay, I peeked!)

I guess Brian Ostrosser. Put me down for Ostrosser. Is Ostrosser the right answer? Is Ostrosser when Wright's BA dipped below .300? Did I say Ostrosser? Ostrosser! Tomorrow, I'll quiz youse on the identity of the 12th player on the Mets center field depth chart. These are great quizzes. Here's another one: What's Carlos Beltran's lifetime Mets batting average to the tenth decimal?

=nymr83 post_id=136961 time=1694125250 user_id=54] I don't feel that Carter's number needs retirement, but you seem to have a real thing against him, what's up with that?

Edgy MD wrote: That would be a pretty obscure record. Beyond that, two of [Alvarez's] homeruns are as a designated hitter. Would they disqualify the DH home runs? I dunno. Would they count all of Edgar Martinez's career HR's as being hit as a catcher? How about as a pitcher?

=ashie62 post_id=138095 time=1695500206 user_id=90] In this era yould would be tracking DH home runs for so many players that it would be hard to disqualify players for having a few dings at DH

Bob Alpacadaca wrote: Carter would have been a great manager. He'd do a tremendous job of working (i.e., manipulating) the press to win a Manager of the Year award. How do you know?

Gary Carter wants Buck's job.

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Edgy MD wrote: It's a lot easier to spot not-Mets interlopers than not-Reds interlopers. Yes.

Edgy MD wrote: Good job putting Norman, Zachry, and Youngblood in a row, though Steve Henderson and Doug Flynn are elsewhere. [FIMG=165]https://img.comc.com/i/Baseball/1977/Topps---Base/548/Joel-Youngblood.jpg?id=de26ac38-c43d-45bf-afd7-8a39f45d4b72&size=original[/FIMG][FIMG=165]https://img.comc.com/i/Baseball/1977/O-Pee-Chee---Base/201/Pat-Zachry.jpg?id=a020ad7f-2f4b-4138-8225-71314ee2d45d&size=original[/FIMG][FIMG=165]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53187931136_168fc38e9a_c.jpg[/FIMG] Coincidence, like I said. Also a coincidence that Dan Norman happens to be one of our interlopers. Norman never played for the Reds and debuted at the ML level as a Met. Same for Steve Henderson, who's not in the card thread, but if he was, he'd also be an interloper. Our other interloper is/was Bob Aspromonte, whose MLB career ended with his last game as a Met in 1971. Aspro was invited to the Reds 1972 Spring Training, but didn't make the final cuts. He did make Topps final cuts for its 1972 set, as shown below. Thank youse for not playing. [FIMG=165]https://img.comc.com/i/Baseball/1972/Topps---Base/659/High----Bob-Aspromonte.jpg?id=4c906680-2030-48fc-aa84-d761cdd874cd&size=original[/FIMG]