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  1. batmagadanleadoff
    Apodaca had the best peak of the candidates. He gets virtually no recognition from anyone but die hard Mets fans for being unhittable in '75 and '76. Especially in 1975. If any current reliever in an option year pitched like Apodaca did in '75, that reliever would be able to live the rest of his life like a king from the spoils of his next contract.
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    All three starting outfielders are products of the Expos system. Add Gary Carter and that's half of the starting eight.
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    Dickey belongs in Anaheim Sez ESPN's Rob Parker, in an article written a day or two before Dickey out-pitched Strasburg. http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/columns/story?id=5350246
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    I posted the answer at 12:17 pm. It's Ken Boyer. Ashie guessed correctly.
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    I don't necessarily have a problem with Jerry using "the guys he trusts" because, in essence, that's what every manager does. Whether Jerry is trusting the right guys, though, is another question. My biggest peeve is that K-Rod is being used almost exclusively in save situations. I get the sense that K-Rod's primary function is to accumulate saves rather than to put out the hottest and most dangerous fires. This is fine by me so long as the hottest fires happen to occur in save situations. But the two conditions (saves and fires) don't always overlap. K-Rod's misuse is creating a terrible domino reaction that's affecting the use of the other relievers.
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    Saberhagen won his second and last Cy Young in 1989, but lost the 1990 WW cover to '89 AL MVP Robin Yount. Sabes joined the Mets in 1992: so even if he did make the 90 WW cover, it would've been two years prior to his first Met season.
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    MFS62 wrote: Since the cover is generally reserved for the winners in the various offensive categories, I'm guessing Lance Johnson. Later The player featured on the cover is always the preceding season's MVP or Cy Young award winner. So the trick was to determine which player won that award two seasons before coming to the Mets. While Frank Viola won the Cy Young in 1988 -- one year before coming to the Mets in '89, he never made the cover of Who's Who. Canseco made the '89 cover.
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    Solved by the poster who guessed everybody. Ken Boyer won the MVP award in '64, made the cover of Who's Who in '65, and joined the Mets in '66.
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    Name the only MLB player to be featured on the cover of Who's Who one year before his first season as a member of the New York Mets.
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    Head.
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    Rare angle close-up.
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    That's the eighth inning guy's fault.
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    I was praising the 78's. ([u:214z2q3z]See [/u:214z2q3z]R.A. Dickey mock-up above)
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    I have a soft spot in my heart for the 1970, 1971 and 1972 Topps sets -- the first sets I collected, and with an unmatched obsessive passion. But the '78's are my favorites from that decade. Simple and uncluttered, like the great Sports Illustrated and Sporting News covers of 40 years ago. And the action shots put me right there, like an umpire. Plus the heads of the action subjects aren't so small that you'd think you could squeeze four or five of them onto the head of one dime.
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    Benjamin Grimm wrote: Unless the Mets juggle their rotation, Pelfrey won't be eligible; his turn in the rotation will be the Sunday before the All-Star Game. If I remember correctly, Sunday starters who would otherwise qualify for the ASG will still be honored by being named to the team. Although they won't pitch, they will be allowed to appear at the ASG, and participate in the opening introductions.
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    I wonder if Jerry'll blame it on the eighth inning guy?
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    If the Times is predicting Wright and Pelfrey as the only Mets, then why is Jose Reyes on that list?
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    What? Nobody noticed K-Rod's time-machine visit to Shea? Those '78's are the best of the 1970's. Anybody else agree?
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    And K-Rod gets the damn save. Yay. (After giving up hits to the only two batters he faced).
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    Full season to date NL road stats ranked by road HR's. Wright would be on pace to hit 43 HR's if Citi Field were a neutral HR park.
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    LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Edgy DC wrote: I wonder if the losing margin in the RC/27 race can be found in the caught-stealings. Yeps. In the formulation, it's like him getting three fewer hits/walks. But you could do this with any category of stat that favored Coghlan. For example, Coghlan had a significantly better walk rate. You could say that the extra walks gave Coghlan the edge over Wright in RC/27. Or Coghlan's extra doubles. If just one or two of Coghlan's doubles was a single, Wright would have the edge in RC/27. No?
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    Edgy DC wrote: I wonder if the losing margin in the RC/27 race can be found in the caught-stealings. I dunno. But don't forget that RC/27 is a theoretical stat and therefore, must have a margin of error. We can say for sure that in June, Wright outhomered Coghlan 6-3, but to say that Coghlan created 1.5 more runs is a hypothesis.
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