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Rick Reed
Ultimate Mets Database popularity ranking: 175 of 1218 players
Reed
Richard Allen Reed
Born: August 16, 1964 at Huntington, W. Va.
Throws: Right Bats: Right
Height: 6.01 Weight: 195

Rick Reed was the most popular Ultimate Mets Database daily lookup on November 24, 2012, January 18, 2019, and October 20, 2019.

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First Mets game: April 5, 1997
Last Mets game: July 26, 2001

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EG
March 17, 2001
To use an overused baseball adjective, he is a gutty pitcher. Can't be easy when you know a lot guys still resent him and consider him a scab.

Probably one of the more charitable guys in the game. Has the make-up to be a number two. The stuff is pretty good too.

One of those pitchers that you have confidence in big games and post-season games.

Coach HoJo 20
March 31, 2001
If there is a baseball work stoppage and the owners use scabs the Mets will have a great advantage because this guy will be able to play. He has been black balled by the Players association. Because he was a scab. I think the PA should give this guy a break. The only reason why he was a scab is because a family member of his needed an operation or something and he needed the money. Just give the guy a break. he did a noble thing that should be respected not detested.

Mr. Sparkle
July 31, 2001
I can't believe they traded this guy! He was as reliable a pitcher as you get these days. He was a gamer. Bobby V. found Rick on a scrap heep and helped turn his career around. He is definitely a true Met in their deep history of strong pitching. He was only a replacement player to help out his family in a time of need but luckily the team accepted him after a while. But to trade your best pitcher this year for an average outfielder I just don't get it. Lawton is a good leadoff hitter but I guess Steve Phillips was lying when he said he wasn't going to rob Peter to pay Paul. I don't see how he could consider this a blockbuster.

I was at game 3 of the NLCS last year when Rick got knocked around by the Cardinals. When they took him out my wife asked "so what are they going to do now, trade him?" She just didn't get it that good pitchers some times have bad outtings. It's too bad he's gone. Hopefully he can help send the Yankees packing in the playoffs. That would make the trade worth it in my eyes.

Larry Burns
October 17, 2002
This guy was great. Completely underrated started for the Mets and a finesse guy who did really well. I have no idea why we traded him. Also loved him because everytime he gets someone out he is sticking it to the overpayed MLB union memebers who won't let him join them because he was a replacement player. Keep getting them out Reeder and those spoiled babies can stick it where it does not shine!

Bob P
April 10, 2004
The New York Post is reporting today (4/9/04) that Rick Reed has retired at the age of 38. He was with the Pirates in spring training but did not make their opening day roster.

At the time of his retirement, Reed was first among active pitchers in fewest walks allowed per nine innings (1.66). That walk rate is almost exactly the same as Bret Saberhagen's career rate. Sabes was always known as the major league pitcher least likely to allow a walk.

Take a look at this chart of winning percentages while with the Mets. It is not meant to be complete by any means, but it is just a list of some of the more memorable pitchers ever to pitch at Shea.

Dwight Gooden 157-85 .649 Tom Seaver 198-124 .615 David Cone 81-61 .614 Al Leiter 85-59 .590 Ron Darling 99-70 .586 Sid Fernandez 98-78 .557 Jerry Koosman 140-137 .505 Jon Matlack 82-81 .503

RICK REED 59-36 .621

That was not meant to say that Rick belongs in the Hall of Fame, but just to say how the Mets won a lot more than they lost when Rick was on the mound.

Good luck, Rick, and thanks for all you did for the Mets.

Ed Kotowski
September 12, 2004
Living in Buffalo, I saw Rick come up to the Bisons, and followed his career ever since. He was a gamer. Took the ball, and went out and did his job. He really pitched some great games for the Mets, and in all the years of following his career, I never heard him offer up one excuse when things didn't go his way, or his defense let him down, or when he pitched badly. It's too bad he chose to retire, he could have helped the Pirates a lot. A true class act.

KMT
March 26, 2005
WOW! What a great bunch of comments! I agree with them all! He was clutch, tough, and above all a classy guy! A true Met through and through. I was saddened when we traded him away, and hoped we were going to get him back. He became a dependable number 3 starter late in his career and gave it his all every time he toed the rubber. Good luck Rick!

Bonbolito
November 1, 2006
"A candle burning at both ends, it will not last the night but oh, my foes and oh my friends it makes a lovely light". I loved him. He reminded me of John Henry the gelding racehorse who also had a late blossoming shooting star like career. I sensed that his gratitude to Valentine for believing in him fueled his time with us. When he took the mound with that haunted expression of his you knew we had a chance, not a lights out chance but a chance nonetheless. He labored in Leiter's shadow and delivered in the clutch when it mattered. It was poetic justice that he came together as a pitcher in our presence. Even though he didn't finish his career here, I believe he is ours the way Seaver is ours.

Anthony
December 29, 2007
Definitely one of my favorite players in Mets' history along with Cliff Floyd. Outside of that one against the Cardinals in the 2000 NLCS, he was a good playoff pitcher. He pitched in three of the four playoff games I went to in 1999 and 2000. I will never forget the summer of 2001 when dad got with Bobby V's lawyer (they are friends) and arranged to get me a birthday card signed by some of the Mets' players, Reed included. That card is framed now. I was so mad when they traded him for Matt Lawton. Not that I did not like Lawton, it is just I thought it was unnecessary at the time. I will always look up to Reed for crossing the picket line during the strike. I wish they would bring him back as a coach or something.








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