The really tough positions to speculate on, down to the #4-7 slots, are SS and C, both of which take special skills to do even semi-competently. For emergency purposes you need to be three-deep there, and that seems to be exactly where the Mets are, three-deep but not four. In a sense pitching is the most specialized skill of all, except you always have twelve qualified backups, and another twelve thinking "Yeah, me! Put me out there, Buck! I'd be a great pitcher." McNeil has been good at second, and you wonder how he'd be in a pinch at short. Probably better than Orosco and McDowell in right field in 1985 -- though Orosco fielded a fly from Tony Perez! He might be the No. 4. Assuming this would all be to finish a game before reinforcements arrive from Syracuse.