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Mets Birthdays, October 12th

Happy Birthday to these former Mets:

Sid Fernandez (1962)

Year IP WAR
1984 90 1.1
1985 170.3 3.7
1986 204.3 2.7
1987 156 1.5
1988 187 3
1989 219.3 3.2
1990 179.3 2.3
1991 44 0.9
1992 214.7 5.5
1993 119.7 3

Jose Valentin (1969)

Year PA WAR
2006 421 3.4
2007 181 0.1

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This is sorta scraping the bottom of the barrel, isn't it?

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Oct 12, 2009 3:08 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

It's a long offseason, brother

If you think this is the bottom of the barrel, wait until mid-January.

by Eric Simon on Oct 12, 2009 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I look forward to reading

about Elliott Maddox’ tenure with the Mets and his conversion to Judaism later in life.

"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."

by Evan_S on Oct 12, 2009 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Rec'd

"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."

by Evan_S on Oct 12, 2009 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Top 50 Mets!

That’s how I found this site. Wow, long time ago. Has David Wright passed Steve Trachsel yet?

by yellomellojello on Oct 12, 2009 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Yeah

that list needs a major revision by now. Wright is probably in the top 10 already.

"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."

by Evan_S on Oct 12, 2009 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Bingo

That’s another goal for this offseason: rework the list using WAR and relaunch.

by Eric Simon on Oct 12, 2009 5:01 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I think, to save yourself a little trouble,

make it an in depth top 20 and just go through numbers 50 through 21 with quick info on them, like two or three short paragraphs and their numbers.

"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."

by Evan_S on Oct 12, 2009 5:09 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Of course not.

Haven’t you heard? David Wright’s a loser, the suckiest suck that ever sucked. That’s why we need to trade him, so we can finally win the World Series.

by BobbyV_Incognito on Oct 12, 2009 8:32 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

what about the Mets Farm System series?

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Oct 12, 2009 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Yea

Seriously. What’s up with that?

by Eric Simon on Oct 12, 2009 5:01 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Francicso Pena's a monster.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Oct 12, 2009 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

If only Sid could stay healthy,

he would have been remembered even more fondly than he is.

by Sokojoe on Oct 12, 2009 3:24 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I loved me some Sid

he pitched the first Mets game I ever went to, against the Expos. I also liked Jose Valentin, even if he did start the trend of Omar getting roped in by a great bargain performance and then handing out a big contract to a guy who everybody else knew would never repeat that performance. So thanks, I guess, Jose.

"[The Giants] beat us down. We were beat by a grown-man team, a team we want to be like one day. They came in here and took it to us. Out-manned us, out-gunned us. ... It wasn't even close." - Raheem Morris, 9/27/09

by cjmulrain on Oct 12, 2009 4:22 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

92?

El Sid was my favorite pitcher and I don’t remember anything about his ’92 season.

"It's Father's Day today at Shea, so to all you fathers out there, Happy Birthday." -- Ralph Kiner

by dissento on Oct 12, 2009 5:10 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

The Top 50 Mets series is so old

it uses VORP

"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"

by firejerrynow on Oct 12, 2009 8:24 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

There's a mom joke in there somewhere

Happy birthday El Sid! He was always one of my favorites.

You don't cheer for the Mets. You drink for the Mets.

by Kevin H on Oct 12, 2009 11:23 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

value over replacement poontang?

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Oct 12, 2009 11:28 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Hey this was interesting

As a younger Mets fan, I never knew how consistently-pretty-good Sid was. And Jose, yeah well, 3.4 WAR is always going to net a decent contract, notwithstanding your lightning-in-a-bottle status.

by deadspy3 on Oct 12, 2009 10:36 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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