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Name That Mets Pitcher - Now With Prizes!

Thanks to the folks at WhatIfSports, we now have prizes to give out for the 'Name That Pitcher/Batter' posts. You can read more about them in this post. They offer many unique sports simulation games including SimLeague Baseball and Hardball Dynasty.

The Prize

For any particular contest, one grand prize winner will receive a $15 gift certificate to WhatIfSports, which will cover a full season of any of their baseball offerings.

The Rules

  1. One winner per contest. The first person to correctly guess the mystery player will be deemed the winner.
  2. One guess per person per contest. Only your first guess in a particular contest will be considered, so make it count.

Today's Mystery Pitcher

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I'm going for "Admiral" Nelson

Figueroa, though the skin tone on the hands says otherwise…

by deadspy3 on Feb 18, 2009 11:26 AM EST reply actions  

Tony Armas

mmmmm, Ohhhhh these COOKIEEEES!

by HomeRunApple on Feb 18, 2009 11:39 AM EST reply actions  

Nelson Figueroa

I just signed up today…hope I’m right!

by dirtydave6986 on Feb 18, 2009 11:55 AM EST reply actions  

Welcome

Figueroa was already guessed above. It’s not him, though.

by Eric Simon on Feb 18, 2009 12:17 PM EST up reply actions  

Damn

I can get back to work now though, I suppose

by deadspy3 on Feb 18, 2009 12:17 PM EST up reply actions  

Orber Moreno?

My first time not just lurking here….a bit of a stab in the dark on this one.

by mookstra2 on Feb 18, 2009 12:14 PM EST reply actions  

Good guess

It’s not him, but I did consider using Moreno at one point.

by Eric Simon on Feb 18, 2009 12:17 PM EST up reply actions  

Claudio Vargas?

The 2009 NY Mets: WE GOT K-ROD! OMG, Putz, too! Sign Lowe! Lowe's a Brave. Sign Manny! Tim Redding, WTF? Sign Manny! Sheets or Perez? SHEETS! Perez?? Oh, Sheets is hurt -- good job, Minaya! WTF?! SIGN MANNY!

by ZaBlanc on Feb 18, 2009 12:29 PM EST reply actions  

Burgos?

Ambiorix.. great name- sad story tho.

by WuCross on Feb 18, 2009 12:38 PM EST reply actions  

also a first time poster!

wonder how many joined because of these guessing games, haha. I know I did.

by WuCross on Feb 18, 2009 12:38 PM EST up reply actions  

Welcome to you as well

Hope you stick around for the other content, too.

by Eric Simon on Feb 18, 2009 12:46 PM EST up reply actions  

MLB Power Pros

I made Burgos my closer in MLB Power Pros (Wii). He woulda been the league’s best closer except he rarely got save chances as I savaged opponent pitching. :-)

The 2009 NY Mets: WE GOT K-ROD! OMG, Putz, too! Sign Lowe! Lowe's a Brave. Sign Manny! Tim Redding, WTF? Sign Manny! Sheets or Perez? SHEETS! Perez?? Oh, Sheets is hurt -- good job, Minaya! WTF?! SIGN MANNY!

by ZaBlanc on Feb 18, 2009 2:27 PM EST up reply actions  

hmm..

Victor Zambrano?

He looks way too thin, but the delivery looks similar…

by cjmulrain on Feb 18, 2009 1:10 PM EST reply actions  

Bartolome Fortunato

The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.

by sireric on Feb 18, 2009 1:34 PM EST reply actions  

Hah

Great guess. It’s not him, but that’s still a great guess.

by Eric Simon on Feb 18, 2009 1:41 PM EST up reply actions  

I figured it wasn’t, but I just liked typing that name. He sounds like a Shakespeare character.

The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.

by sireric on Feb 18, 2009 10:10 PM EST up reply actions  

Jose Lima?

I’d almost rather just not guess then type his name…

by yellomellojello on Feb 18, 2009 3:18 PM EST reply actions  

oh shoot

Lima had ridiculous hair when he was with the mets, didn’t he? I feel like more of the head would need to be blocked out.

by yellomellojello on Feb 18, 2009 3:19 PM EST up reply actions  

Ding

It is indeed:

Jose “Lima Time™” Lima

We have a winner (you, not Jose Lima).

by Eric Simon on Feb 18, 2009 3:23 PM EST up reply actions  

He certainly wasn't for us.

"One of the nice things about baseball is that there are no rules you can't break." - Jim Bouton

by Prince on Feb 18, 2009 3:35 PM EST up reply actions  

In case any of you want to copy my guessing strategy...

guess the worst pitcher you can think of that Eric hasn’t posted yet

by yellomellojello on Feb 18, 2009 7:27 PM EST reply actions  

hey is it jose lima?

i think im getting better at this

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on Feb 18, 2009 8:30 PM EST reply actions  

I almost went with Lino Urdanetta

but he only pitched 1 inning for the Mets, and I didn’t think even Eric would be that cruel

by cjmulrain on Feb 19, 2009 8:47 AM EST reply actions  

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