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Gullermo "Willie" Montañez was a productive Met in 1978 — at least, by the terribly low standard of that terribly unproductive season for the Mets offense. But that just mean 0.4 on the bWAR meter, and that was quickly offset by his sickly performance in 1979 sucking -2.1 from his total, giving his an embarrassing -1.7 bWAR, good (though also, very bad) for a tie for 173rd among the 176 qualifying Mets who would also take a job with the Rangers at some point in their careers. He then compounding that folly by giving the Rangers a 40-game run of some of the best baseball of his career. To your credit, having now corralled both Flynn and Montañez, you are running away with the bizzarro version of this quiz. Lenny Randle may have throttled Frank Lucchesi and made enemies of other skippers, but he found Joe Torre too young and vigourous to fuck with. He is number 13 on our list! TWENTY bWAR-RIEST METS WHO ALSO PLAYED FOR THE RANGERS Jacob deGrom 41.2 Carlos Beltrán 31.1 Jon Matlack 26.6 Brando Nimmo 26.0 Bud Harrelson 18.6 R.A. Dickey 12.9 Lee Mazzilli 12.5 Max Scherzer 7.3 Rusty Staub 6.8 Asdrúbal Cabrera 6.7 Lenny Randle 5.0 Bartolo Colon 4.7 Roger McDowell 4.3

All's fair in love and bWar. Nimmo was just hanging out there in the four hole, waiting like a piñata to be whacked and to explode with candy. Yeah, there really isn't a baseball trivia question that Todd is a bad answer for, but he is just outside the money on this one, with 2.7 bWAR, 23rd place among Mets with a Texas tenure. He gets damaged by a -0.4 bWAR sCORE in his 2004 return. Alas, Julio's storied career lacked a key element that might've qualified him for this list, as his geriatric tenure with the Mets netted him a -0.1 bWAR, tied for 106th among all Mets who also Rangered. Pitcher, golfer, and humanitarian Kenny Rogers, despite his infamous last stand as a Met, had a good run with the team, but too short a tenure to appear here. He is 41st in bWAR as a Met among rostermates who also were Rangers, with 1.2 bWAR. TWENTY bWAR-RIEST METS WHO ALSO PLAYED FOR THE RANGERS Jacob deGrom 41.2 Carlos Beltrán 31.1 Jon Matlack 26.6 Brando Nimmo 26.0 Bud Harrelson 18.6 R.A. Dickey 12.9 Lee Mazzilli 12.5 Max Scherzer 7.3 Rusty Staub 6.8 Asdrúbal Cabrera 6.7 Bartolo Colon 4.7 Roger McDowell 4.3

SAtBO! Awkward title — he advises to baseball operations? The regular coining of new titles makes linear comparisons of figures across time difficult. I suspect that's part of the point. "By any metric, that guy has outperformed you as a scouting director." "Hey, I'm not a scouting director! I'm the senior analyst of player assessments!" Welcome aboard to him and to Kris Gross, who I did a great job playing the villain in Ant-Man.

Hmmm ... Ben's breaking that time-honored tradition against consecuguessing. He's just gonna have to pick one of those answers to go with.

R.A. Dickey was a relatively hapless Ranger (and wouldn't The Hapless Ranger make for a delightful family-oriented comic western?), but a celebrated Met, firmly established as the seventh bWAR-riest Met to have also toiled in a Texas uniform TWENTY bWAR-RIEST METS WHO ALSO PLAYED FOR THE RANGERS Jacob deGrom 41.2 Carlos Beltrán 31.1 Jon Matlack 26.6 Bud Harrelson 18.6 R.A. Dickey 12.9 Lee Mazzilli 12.5 Max Scherzer 7.3 Rusty Staub 6.8 Asdrúbal Cabrera 6.7 Bartolo Colon 4.7 Roger McDowell 4.3

There's bWAR for you. Not only does the metric have little respect for glove-first infielders of the seventies, the contempt compounds with Flynn's extended tenure to not only deprive him of status among the top twenty Mets bWAR compilers who also played for the Rangers, it goes much further, ranking him dead last among all Mets who spent time in Arlington, with -3.9 bWAR. No other once or future Ranger complied less than -1.7 bWAR as a Met. Dougie is truly in a class by himself.

You can tell from the arms up in the air in your avatar photo.

ashie, this is your thread. I merged the two threads, keeping your title and URL.

Nolan Ryan, with 3.0 pitching bWAR as a Met, falls in 21st place. Lest it go unsaid, bWAR is a good metric for such quizzes, but I don't think it's all that.

He Scher is! 9 minutes ago · IP TWENTY bWAR-RIEST METS WHO ALSO PLAYED FOR THE RANGERS Jacob deGrom 41.2 Carlos Beltrán 31.1 Jon Matlack 26.6 Bud Harrelson 18.6 Lee Mazzilli 12.5 Max Scherzer 7.3 Rusty Staub 6.8 Asdrúbal Cabrera 6.7 Bartolo Colon 4.7 Roger McDowell 4.3

TWENTY bWAR-RIEST METS WHO ALSO PLAYED FOR THE RANGERS Jacob deGrom 41.2 Carlos Beltrán 31.1 Jon Matlack 26.6 Bud Harrelson 18.6 Lee Mazzilli 12.5 Rusty Staub 6.8 Asdrúbal Cabrera 6.7 Bartolo Colon 4.7 Roger McDowell 4.3

I listed only hitters. I'll put up a better threadrick with pitchers. (collating data ... please wait.)

There's a more interesting question developing. Name your 10 bWARriest Mets to play for the Rangers also. Named guys will be automatically penciled in. Carlos Beltrán: 31.1 Mets WAR (0.3 for the Rangers) Bud Harrelson: 18.6 (0.7) Rusty Staub: 6.8 (1.3) Asdrúbal Cabrera: 6.7 (-0.2)

I don't want to speak ill of Trevor Williams, but it seems odd that he's the guy on the bump with the season on the line. He had a terrible season in 2025, ending with internal brace UCL surgery, and only debuted in 2026 at the end of July. By the time he got a few appearances in, the Nats were crashing, but it was too late to trade him, so they just cut him loose and the Rangers signed him on September 1.

The Rangers had only four hits on the night, but three of them came in what seemed like four pitches in the fifth.

KAFUCKINGBOOM, MUTHAFUCKAS!

Thank you, Trevor Williams. Let's go, Baty.

It would be kinda crazy kool to send Baty up for Bichette here.

Be angry, Boba.

Cionel up for the save! Money!

There's going to be a lot of data to look at come the end of the season.

Not Mets bunters, they don't. And look, it's Devin Williams.

Simmmmmmy!!

And if he got the guy to third, he'da scored on that fly by Lindorino.