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Don Shaw
Ultimate Mets Database popularity ranking: 455 of 1218 players
Shaw
Donald Wellington Shaw
Born: February 23, 1944 at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Throws: Left Bats: Left
Height: 6.00 Weight: 180

Don Shaw was the most popular Ultimate Mets Database daily lookup on February 15, 2013, and March 11, 2023.

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First Mets game: April 11, 1967
Last Mets game: September 27, 1968

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Alan
July 24, 2002
Do you know if Don Shaw played in today's game, he would be like a Mark Guthrie type . Poor Don was 30 years too early

KMT
February 24, 2006
Seems like he showed a lot of promise in his first season! What happened in year 2? Did he get hurt and only pitch a little bit? Or, did he suffer from Spring Training Swollen Head Syndrome (like Rod Gaspar later) and get sent back down? I'd like to know. Can anyone out there give me an answer?

Buzz
January 4, 2010
Pitched well in relief for the Mets in 1967 with a 2.98 ERA and had a good year for the Cards in 1971 going 7 - 2 2.65. He then went 0 - 2 14.04 for the Cards and A's in 1972 and that was it at age 28. A rapid decline like that usually indicates a sore arm and all the surgeries today were really not an option back then.

Interesting middle name -- Wellington.

Mitch45
September 9, 2011
I'm too young to have seen Shaw pitch (I was born in 1965), but from what I've read, Shaw was a favorite of M. Donald Grant for some odd reason. According to one book that I read, Whitey Herzog had arranged for the Mets to trade Shaw and Tommy Davis to the White Sox for Tommie Agee in the 1967-68 offseason, but Grant killed the deal. Herzog hated Shaw and left him unprotected in the expansion draft in 1968. Looking back, I think Whitey Herzog was a better judge of talent than M. Donald Grant.

centerfieldmaz.com
January 23, 2012
Shaw went 6-2 at the A ball level at Marion and Auburn in 1965, showing some good stuff. By 1967 he had become one of the Mets Chairman of the Board, M. Donald Grant's favorite players and found himself on the big league staff. This Mr. Shaw was no relation to Bronx born pitcher Bob Shaw also on the 1967 Mets staff.

Donnie Shaw made his debut on Opening Day 1967, closing out a 6-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. At the end of April he recorded two saves on back-to-back days, then took a loss blowing a save to the Philadelphia Phillies on April 23rd. That day he allowed a HR to Dick Allen in the 7th inning then a two-run double to former Met Phil Linz. On May 2nd he earned his first Mets win although he only pitched to one batter in the top of the 12th inning. In the bottom of the inning Ed Kranepool tripled home a run and then scored on a John Sullivan walk-off RBI single. On August 1st he pitched five scoreless innings striking out five Astros at the Astrodome in a 5-1 Mets victory. In the next two weeks he took a loss, earned a save and got a win against the Pittsburgh Pirates before his season ended early.

That off-season he was supposed to go to the White Sox along with Tommy Davis in a deal to get Rookie of the Year Tommie Agee, but it was balked because M. Donald Grant said "we're not trading my Donnie Shaw." It was decisions like this that drove Mets Minor league Director of Player Development Whitey Herzog crazy.

Setbacks only got Shaw into seven games in 1968 and he was eventually picked by the Montreal Expos in the 1968 expansion draft. He only played briefly in three more seasons going 9-9 overall with the Expos, St. Louis Cardinals and Oakland A's. Shaw ended his five-season career by 1973 as the Mets were going to the World Series. He was just 29.

Mike Doumas
October 30, 2020
Had the pleasure of seeing him pitch for my team (Mets) early on and followed him through his career. The best part is that I met Don in the mid nineties and socialized with him for a few years in the St. Louis area, where he worked in wholesale health insurance. He was funny and great fun. My personal feelings are that he was “over traded” and never allowed to develop to his potential.








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