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YOENIS CESPEDES Share your memories of Yoenis Cespedes
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Alex
March 18, 2024
Cespedes wore the Mets uniform for five seasons. FIVE. It doesn't seem that long, but that'll happen when you average 63 games per year, and also miss a whole campaign.

Nevertheless, his heroics were so great in 2015—and his follow up in 2016 was so awesome—that he was elected in the Mets Hall of Fame project I run on another site. He had to wait until his fourth try, earning 80% of the vote.

In 2015, I wrote him an autograph request through the Tigers, but he sent my card back unsigned with a form letter requesting $30. LOL, nah.

SHAUN MARCUM Share your memories of Shaun Marcum
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Alex
March 18, 2024
Shaun Marcum was a real disappointment. He was a very effective pitcher before joining the Mets, averaging 11 wins, a 3.67 ERA and a 114 ERA+ in the preceding five seasons in which he pitched. Then he totally collapsed with New York. What a bummer.

I also recall there being some consternation amongst a certain group of folks because supposedly the Mets released him so they wouldn't have to pay for his injury treatment, or something like that.

On the bright side, back in 2008, he signed an autograph for me through the mail in about three months care of Toronto.

DEVEN MARRERO Share your memories of Deven Marrero
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Alex
March 18, 2024
2022 was an exciting year—a very fun campaign to follow. But you knew things were getting a little shaky toward the end there when fellas like Deven Marrero started getting playing time. That's my primary memory of Marrero—that thought of "Deven Marrero, really? Another one?" Another washed up Quadruple-A guy with no real chance of contributing anything particularly meaningful, that is.

JIM MCANDREW Share your memories of Jim McAndrew
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Mark
March 18, 2024
I was at the game at Shea on August 20, 1969, when he threw the best game of his career, a complete game 2 hitter against the Giants. The final score was 6 to 0. The two hits were by Don Mason, a double and a triple. The big blow was in the fifth when Art Shamsky hit a 3-run homer off Gaylord Perry. I went with my father who was a big time Giants fan. It appeared early that night most of the fans were old NY Giants fans. It was a great game. I'm sorry that McAndrew never got to pitch in either the 69 or 73 post seasons.

JESSE HUDSON Share your memories of Jesse Hudson
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Robert
March 16, 2024
You all shouldn’t be so dismissive about Jesse. Read about his history. While he didn’t make it in the bigs, he had a remarkably low ERA in most places he pitched. He came up in 69 and struck out Stargell. He pitched with Vida Blue in HS (as well as football) and they were dominating athletes. As far as I’m concerned, he accomplished a lot more than a lot of people. He left baseball young, arm trouble? I think he could have made a decent career as a reliever if he stuck with it.

JIM MCANDREW Share your memories of Jim McAndrew
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Mike Friedman
March 16, 2024
He was such a nice man at our fantasy camp in 1992. He was so happy so calm and truly enjoyed the company of the players and the campers. It was an honor to be with him for a week.

JIM MANN Share your memories of Jim Mann
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Alex
March 15, 2024
I sometimes get Jim Mann and Jeff Tam confused because of their similar names.

I'm also 99.9% sure I actually saw one of the two games he pitched with New York on TV as a kid and I want to say something unusual happened during one of his appearances, like he slipped or fell off the mound or something. I could be completely wrong, but I think it was him.

Actually, the more I think about it, it might've been Steve Rain of the Cubs.

Mann was also a 54th round pick, so congrats to him for even making the majors. Incredibly, he wasn't the only guy from his round to make the majors—or pitch for the Mets. Future Met hurler Matt Wise was also taken in the same round as Mann.

JOSIAS MANZANILLO Share your memories of Josias Manzanillo
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Alex
March 15, 2024
Manzanillo is one of the 1999 Mets that I actually have no recollection of. He must've departed before I actively got into the club.

As is what happens all too frequently with Mets relievers, once he left the club, he became a stud. For the Pirates in 2000 and 2001, he posted a combined ERA of 3.38 and an ERA+ of 136 (this was back when higher ERAs were the norm).

He didn't pitch too many games in the majors, but he forged a LONG professional career, at 21 seasons. Baseball Reference says he started his pro career at FIFTEEN years old—you don't see that much these days!

And in 2005, I wrote him an autograph request through what I thought was his home address, but it came back return to sender.

DARYL BOSTON Share your memories of Daryl Boston
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Alex
March 14, 2024
Those early and mid-1990s teams had a lot of players that seemed a lot more transient than they actually were. They were some forgettable years, which makes the players forgettable, as well, I guess.

Boston is one such player. He doesn't get much recognition these days, but he spent nearly three full seasons with New York, averaging 127 games played per season. Who would have guessed?

Maybe I don't think of him as a Met of much consequence because I often get him confused with DJ Dozier, who truly WAS a short-timer (and also Boston's teammate in 1992).

Anywho, I wrote him an autograph request through his home address in 2020, but he never responded.

GARY CARTER Share your memories of Gary Carter
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Alex
March 14, 2024
Carter had to wait quite a while to enter the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. He didn't get in until his sixth try in 2003, and only then did he squeak in with 78% of the vote.

It's crazy how one's baseball fandom skews perceptions. Carter is a legend to many Mets fans, yet when he first arrived on the ballot in 1998, only 42% of voters thought him good enough for the Hall! Crazy.

We the voters of the Mets Hall of Fame I run on another website recognized his greatness, however. He was elected on his first try, but there were dissenters—he earned 'just" 92% of the vote.

I still remember how sad it was when his death was announced in 2012. It's been 12 years now! That's hard to believe. He was pretty well-regarded as a man, so his passing at so young an age affected a lot of people.

I also thought it was interesting the teams he managed. While a lot of guys want to manage well-known clubs and move up, Carter always stuck with low-level and independent league teams. And he was a great manager—he made the playoffs all four years he managed, going to the league finals three times and winning two titles. I guess I'd forgotten (or never even knew) he managed in the Mets system in the 2000s, because when I looked him up just now, that took me by surprise.

BUD HARRELSON Share your memories of Bud Harrelson
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Steven Gallanter
March 14, 2024
My blog features a remembrance of Bud Harrelson.

https://stevegallanter.wordpress.com

As does my Facebook page.

RON DARLING Share your memories of Ron Darling
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NYB Buff
March 13, 2024
In regard to Mets players from Hawaii, people generally think only of Sid Fernandez and Benny Agbayani. It was Ron's birthplace as well before he and his family moved to Massachusetts. Darling entered the world in Honolulu at the time of the Islands' first anniversary of statehood. This makes Ron the answer to an interesting trivia question - Who was the first major leaguer (of any team) that was born in Hawaii after it became a state?

KEVIN ELSTER Share your memories of Kevin Elster
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LG
March 13, 2024
Talents with accomplishments didn't match up...
Blame to go around; trying to make him a kind of opposite field spray didn't help

JOHN MAINE Share your memories of John Maine
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Alex
March 13, 2024
I really liked John Maine. I thought he was a real asset in their playoff season of 2006, and a pleasant surprise, and in 2007, I thought he was awesome. His 15-10 record made it look like he was going to be a very good pitcher for a while.

Alas, it wasn't to be. Though he was okay in 2008, he was underwhelming, and not long after that, he was an afterthought.

In 2008, I sent him an autograph request through the Mets. He signed my card in just eight days.

RUSTY STAUB Share your memories of Rusty Staub
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LG
March 13, 2024
Hit .426 in the 73 WS despite shoulder injury...Still raked in Detroit after the stupid trade... Reinvents himself to one of the great pinch hitters of all time...Could've elected to be a DH somewhere in the AL and get his 3000 hits stamping his ticket to the HOF...

Nonetheless not being in the HOF irregardless is a travesty itself.

PAT MAHOMES Share your memories of Pat Mahomes
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Alex
March 4, 2024
Nine-year-old me thought Pat Mahomes was awesome in 1999, especially his 8-0 record. So imagine how disappointed I was, relatively speaking, when he fell apart in 2000.

He was still 13-3 as a Met, so that's pretty good.

He is indelibly ingrained in my mind alongside Turk Wendell and Dennis Cook—what a trio!

I've written him three autograph requests in my day, all in 2020. He signed once, taking more than a year to get back to me.








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