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HIckman '62 is indeed #17 with 96 hits, one of which is apparently on your bookshelf, keeping him one hit ahead of Juan Lagares. That's 10.7 poins! Congratulations for being the first to break the tape on the projectorinos! Benge 2026 was on a pace for 162 hits when we first started this exciting quiz, but after his two hits last night, he's upped that pace to ... 163.157142857! You get 10 points for landing a projection slot! You get three points for getting the season right! And you get ... let's see ... 0.67 bonus points for getting a slot that's above the current first guy! That ain't much of a bonus, but the rest of your scoring is sweet!!! Yes! Kevin, like many on this list, was a World Series hero! And he got to that Word Series by producing 91 hits, without even actually having a position to play from day to day! Kevin gets you 11.2 points! Teamwork! Dream work! You are threatening to take your lead, run away, and hide! Like the 1986 Mets! I imagine most remember him, and even remember fondly remember many of his 77 hits, but while those hits did thrill and amaze, they did not qualify him for this list! You have the right guy, but the wrong slot. That's no sin, so I still will give you your 10 points. No three-point bonus for getting the year right, because you neglected to include said year, but you get 1.65 degree-of-difficulty points. And, I'm about to post the score and I get a notification! Looks like one of our leaders has woken up! Well, shit, it looks like you uncovered another hidden rookie season. Kevin's true rookie season was 1988. Fangraphs doesn't acknowledge it as such, under the digital delusion of him having burned all that in passing usage in 1986 and 1987. We're going to defer to baseball-reference here, and say, yes, in 1988, Ellie was still a rook. You get six points for the dude, two points for being one off on the year, 2.6 points for degree of difficulty, and 0.1 points for making me look like a hump. Again. It's 10.7 points for you and you are BACK IN THE GAME! # SEASON ROOKIE HITS PROJECTION 1 PROJECTION 2 2026 Carson Benge 163.2 1 2019 Pete Alonso 155 2 2003 Ty Wigginton 146 3 1963 Ron Hunt 145 4 2000 Jay Payton 142 5 2010 Ike Davis 138 6 PROJECTION 3 7 8 1977 Lee Mazzilli 134 9 1989 Gregg Jefferies 131 10 1996 Rey Ordóñez 129 11 2004 Kazuo Matsui 125 12 13 1981 Hubie Brooks 110 14 1983 Darryl Strawberry 108 15 2001 Tsuyoshi Shinjo 107 PROJECTION 4 16 1977 Steve Henderson 104 PROJECTION 5 2026 AJ Ewing 99.5 17 1962 Jim Hickman 96 18 2013 Juan Lagares 95 19 20 21 22 1986 Kevin Mitchell 91 23 1981 Mookie Wilson 89 24 PROJECTION 6 25 1962 Rod Kanehl 87 26 1969 Wayne Garrett 87 26B 1988 Kevin Elster 87 27 28 29 2003 Jose Reyes 84 30 2023 Francisco Alvarez 80 STANDINGS: Gwreck: 71.1 Johnny Lunchbucket: 61.3 MFS62: 51.6 Frayed Knot: 23.32 whippoorwill: 16.3 kcmets: 6.9 cowtipper: 2.1 ashie 62: -2.0 INCORRECT GUESSES: Benny Agbayani Brett Baty Todd Hundley Jeff McNeil Omir Santos Mike Vail David Wright

Hot Rod was one of ashie's former handles, so I figured he would be the one to play the Kanehl card — but you did and it gains you 11.6 points! Jose did not have a full rookie year, but he had a fulsome one, which gains you a copious 11.9 points! And you return to the lead!! # SEASON ROOKIE HITS PROJECTION 1 PROJECTION 2 1 2019 Pete Alonso 155 2 2003 Ty Wigginton 146 3 1963 Ron Hunt 145 4 2000 Jay Payton 142 5 2010 Ike Davis 138 6 PROJECTION 3 7 8 1977 Lee Mazzilli 134 9 1989 Gregg Jefferies 131 10 1996 Rey Ordóñez 129 11 2004 Kazuo Matsui 125 12 13 1981 Hubie Brooks 110 14 1983 Darryl Strawberry 108 15 2001 Tsuyoshi Shinjo 107 PROJECTION 4 16 1977 Steve Henderson 104 PROJECTION 5 17 18 2013 Juan Lagares 95 19 20 21 22 23 1981 Mookie Wilson 2.3 24 PROJECTION 6 25 1962 Rod Kanehl 87 26 1969 Wayne Garrett 87 27 28 29 2003 Jose Reyes 84 30 2023 Francisco Alvarez 80 STANDINGS: Gwreck: 59.9 Johnny Lunchbucket: 50.6 MFS62: 42.9 whippoorwill: 16.3 kcmets: 6.9 cowtipper: 2.1 ashie 62: -2.0 INCORRECT GUESSES: Benny Agbayani Brett Baty Todd Hundley Jeff McNeil Omir Santos Mike Vail

It's a game for the ages for Morabito, but it's a shame he had to do it in a bullpen coach's number. In fact, I think he just earned the right to put #8 back on his back. Don't ask permission, Nick!

And that Morabito catch just gets better on rewatch.

The three-young-defense-first track stars outfield Ronnie is trying to think of may or may not be Niewenhuis/Lagares/den Dekker.

The most productive Mets performance out of the eight-hole since Doug Flynn's three-triple game. It just took three guys to do it today.

Perhaps, yes, but the scoring system encourages pushing it. Benny got 79 hits in 1999, which places him in 30th, one hot breath outside the tent, but outside nonetheless -2 points, but the right spirit. Rey Ordóñez' rookie year was 1996, while shortstops were ascendent. He garnered himself 129 hits, and has garnered you 8 points! You're showing some good style here, but not planting your landings. Omir 09 had 73 hits, outside the money. You're missing an S in the first name, but you will not be deducted as Tsuyoshi wasn't that consistent in spelling his name himself. Sparkle is sparklingly correct, and you get a sparkling 10 and a half points! First place!! For now!!! Mookie Huh-Wilson is correct, but his rookie year, though despite a 1980 cameo, the rookie year we are looking for in his case is 1981. Hubie did indeed have the same rookie year after similarly coming up for a cuppa in 1980. So you get six points for the guy, two points for being close but not quite on the year, and 1.3 difficulty points, for 9.3 total ticks added to your score. Hubie led all rookies in either league in hits that year, and would have been a rock-solid Jackie Robinson/Rookie-of-the-Year Award candidate, had he not gone up against two legendery rookie seasons in the NL that season. Hundley's third, last, and hardiest rookie season was 1992, but his .209 batting average added up to 75 hits, leaving him outside the leader board for the sake of this contest, and investigating dubious supplements for the sake of his career. Jeff burned his rookie status with 63 games in 2018, and while that allowed him enough time to pile up 74 hitskis, the abbreviated season keeps him off of the leaderboard. If you asked me Juanito's rookie year, I would guess somewhere between 2007 and 2015, so congrats on nailing the right season. That's 10.8 points from you, and you are pulling away from the pack. Going for guys starting from Opening Day is a tough way to fail, and that's 10.1 points for you, taking you from the red to the black. You get our biggest prize! Francisco is #30, with 80 hits, scoring a whopping 12 points for you!! Look out, Johnny Lunchbucket!! And Brett had exactly 75 hits. You know your sweet spot, but you are leaning a little hard into it. But DAMN! Things have heated up!! # SEASON ROOKIE HITS PROJECTION 1 PROJECTION 2 1 2019 Pete Alonso 155 2 2003 Ty Wigginton 146 3 1963 Ron Hunt 145 4 2000 Jay Payton 142 5 2010 Ike Davis 138 6 PROJECTION 3 7 8 1977 Lee Mazzilli 134 9 1989 Gregg Jefferies 131 10 1996 Rey Ordóñez 129 11 2004 Kazuo Matsui 125 12 13 1981 Hubie Brooks 110 14 1983 Darryl Strawberry 108 15 2001 Tsuyoshi Shinjo 107 PROJECTION 4 16 1977 Steve Henderson 104 PROJECTION 5 17 18 2013 Juan Lagares 95 19 20 21 22 23 1981 Mookie Wilson 2.3 24 PROJECTION 6 25 26 1969 Wayne Garrett 87 27 28 29 30 2023 Francisco Alvarez 80 STANDINGS: Johnny Lunchbucket: 50.6 Gwreck: 48.6 MFS62: 31.3 whippoorwill: 16.3 kcmets: 6.9 cowtipper: 2.1 ashie 62: -2.0 INCORRECT GUESSES: Benny Agbayani Brett Baty Todd Hundley Jeff McNeil Omir Santos Mike Vail

Welcome to The Promised Land, Nick Morabito!!

And there he is. It's all about the Benge-a-Mins.

Benge-a-Min is the only Mets in the lineup not in the hit column.

That blown pickoff has blown up in the Mets' faces.

Assuming that there is an actual practical purpose to eyeblack, is that purpose still actually in play when playing under a roof?

I'm sorry not to have answered this sooner, as I was out walking dogz. Lee Mazzill was not (!!) originally on my list. This was because I assembled my list through a dataquery with FanGraphs, and they apparently think 1976 was the year in which Mazzilli burned his rookieness. But he didn't debut until September 7. FanGraphs is wrong, and the fact that they report Mazzilli as having attended "Lincoin High School" more than confirms it. That may mean this whole list is fucked up, but we will have to take that as it comes. OK! You don't need to guess the slot on the list, but I like your spirit. You DO get points for guessing guys in lower slots though. You get six points for Payton, three more for getting his season right, and .4 for degree of difficulty. Six points for Gregg with a 0.9 bonus for degree of difficulty. I can't give you credit on the year thing, but I'll take any sneakers anybody wants to toss your way. I'll take 'em myself! Bastards. Half a season, but a whole lot of hits! That's 10.6 more points (and a jolt into the lead!) for you, with our highest degree of difficulty of the kwiz so far! It took a bit of time to get regular work, but Wayne got in there often enough to get 87 hits and achieve what is still the 26th hittiest season for a Mets rookie. He gets you 11.6 points as a high-risk guess. Welcome to the lead! (But don't get a big head!) Good strategy! If you consecuguess, I will come to your home and make your life miserable. There's our all-time leader! Not associated with base hits, but he sure got enough of them while he played every damned day! Low degree of difficulty, but points is points, and your 9.1 additionals get you back in the top position. Sorry, too late! No points deducted, but no points garnered, sadly! This sounds more like a thought experiment than an answer, so I won't field it as one. In addition to the 1989 guess that kcmets has knocked off the board, Jefferies got 35 hits in his proto-rookie year. That would have counted had it punctured our top 30, but alas, it did not. And it was the Wigtonic One whose record Pete Alonso broke. Despite merely keeping David Wright's position warm, Ty got into 156 games in 2003 and stuck 146 balls in fair territory. That's 9.2 points for you! Yeah! He was pretty good! One of only two non-pitching RoYs for the Metlanders! That's 10.4 points and a return to the head of the pack. That pachyderm is smiling because you just got 9.5 points. Y'all can keep on answering, but I've got to prepare dinner for the family. # SEASON ROOKIE HITS PROJECTION 1 PROJECTION 2 1 2019 Pete Alonso 155 2 2003 Ty Wigginton 146 3 1963 Ron Hunt 145 4 2000 Jay Payton 142 5 2010 Ike Davis 138 6 PROJECTION 3 7 8 1977 Lee Mazzilli 134 9 1989 Gregg Jefferies 131 10 11 12 13 14 1983 Darryl Strawberry 108 15 PROJECTION 4 16 1977 Steve Henderson 104 PROJECTION 5 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 PROJECTION 6 25 26 1969 Wayne Garrett 87 27 28 29 30 STANDINGS MFS62: 31.3 Johnny Lunchbucket: 29.5 Gwreck: 28.1 kcmets: 6.9 ashie 62: -2

Ron Hunt 1963 is correct for 9.3 points. He had 145 hitaroonies. Mike Vail 1977 (not 1978) had an impressive hitting streak, but not a lot of season-long traction, and finished just outside the money with 73 hits. # SEASON ROOKIE HITS PROJECTION 1 PROJECTION 2 1 2 3 1963 Ron Hunt 145 4 5 6 PROJECTION 3 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 PROJECTION 4 15 PROJECTION 5 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 PROJECTION 6 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 SCORING MFS62: 9.3 ashie62: -2.0

Establishing yourself as a rookie in the majors is cool. Establishing yourself as a rookie on the Mets is even better. Establishing yourself early enough and staying in the lineup enough to climb the team's all-time rookie-season hit list? Well, that's the coolest. Your job, as observers of rookies is to name the top 30 rookie hitmakers in team history. I ask that all answers be THE PLAYERS NAME plus what you think you remember to be HIS ROOKIE YEAR in which he gained those hits. I need you NOT TO CHEAT. If you look up these players to garner correct answers, no one will be impressed. Moreover, if you do this, may all your sweetest memories of your first love be forever tainted and corrupted. If you are thinking of cheating right now, I SEE YOU. Your thoughts are NAKED UNTO ME. SIX POINTS for a correct guess of a PLAYER'S NAME. THREE BONUS POINTS for correctly naming THE ACTUAL ROOKIE YEAR the guy compiled those hits in, two for coming within a year of correctly naming that rookie year, etc. ONE TENTH OF A BONUS POINT TIMES THE RANK OF THE SLOT THE GUY FILLS, so you get 0.1 bonus points for naming the top guy, but three bonus points for naming the 30th guy. MINUS TWO POINTS for INCORRECT GUESSES. What's with those PROJECTIONS on the list? Well, those are projections, not actual seasons, but you name what projections those are, and TEN POINTS await you. TEN! Typical rules of ONE GUESS PER POST and NO CONSECUGUESSING. BEST OF LUCK!! # SEASON ROOKIE HITS PROJECTION 1 PROJECTION 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 PROJECTION 3 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 PROJECTION 4 15 PROJECTION 5 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 PROJECTION 6 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

There is no need for clauses because it's non-binding to begin with.

It's curious, but things often get weird when Jefry Yan is in the game. I mean, they are weird because he is weird, and they are weird because he generally doesn't do very good. But they are also weird because the team plays weirdly and not very good behind him, and situations develop that you don't often see. And they are kind of weird because the situations he enters in are often games in which the team is not doing very well and he is all intense while the team behind him are kind of checking out. So he's too tight and the rest of them are too loose.

The Tigers have reportedly reached a $4 million bonus agreement on an international prospect of high regard named Kevin Sosa. Apart from being able to handle mid-90s heat despite his youth, little is known about him, apart from his age. He is 12. That keeps the agreement un-official at least until he turns 16. And the two parties — his family and the Tiger organization — have to live in trust and suspicion of each other until then. Here is a picture of the agreeable parties. It would be much more interesting if Kevin was the guy on the left, but I suspect he is the kid in the middle.

Apart from the first inning, that game looked like they left it all in the hotel room.

Stinky, shminky. Alvarez could stand to insert his head into this game.

Mets chase upstairs. Like, a lot. Like they have explicit instructions to do that.

It's too bad Juan Soto couldn't play in this series.

If Cristian Pache has a hit in him as a Met, so must Nick Morabito. But for now, a relatively harmless hit-by-pitch works, too.

Hello, Freddy! I remember this guy!

Apparently, Ewing has been kicked to the back of the lineup against righthanders also. Somehow, though, Alvarez moves up. And please give a welcome back to the happy world of MLB lineups to Nick Morabito. No time for Peralta to rediscover his 2025ishness. And it's not time for the Mets to let him. Moundkeeper Sean Manaea LHP 4-6, 4.55 ERA, 120 SO Lineup F Lindor (S) SS J Soto (L) DH B Bichette (R) 3B C Benge (L) RF J Young (L) 1B B Baty (L) 2B F Alvarez (R) C A Ewing (L) CF N Morabito (R) LF Hilldweller Freddy Peralta RHP 6-11, 5.11 ERA, 133 SO Lineup Y Díaz (R) DH R Vilade (R) 1B J Caminero (R) 3B J DeLuca (R) CF J Mateo (R) 2B C Simpson (L) LF N Fortes (R) C V Mesa Jr. (L) RF T Walls (S) SS