Name That Mets Pitcher

by Eric Simon on Feb 25, 2009 12:21 PM EST Comment 53 comments

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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

One winner per contest. The first person to correctly guess the mystery player will be deemed the winner.
One guess per person per contest. Only your first guess in a particular contest will be considered, so make it count.
Previous winners are not eligible.

Today's Mystery Pitcher

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Matt Ginter

He’s the most obscure white righty I can think of from 2004.

by Reg Dunlop on Feb 25, 2009 12:35 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Ginter's got my vote, too.

by MatthewA on Feb 25, 2009 3:15 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

good guess

by cuseindahuse on Feb 25, 2009 4:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Dan Wheeler

We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!

by kingcritical on Feb 25, 2009 12:41 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

as a previous "winner"

i’m not eligible.

I know it isn’t Brian Stokes.

I.M. Forme
"When you get yourself into trouble is when you feel you have to do something, and then you get yourself in trouble." --Omar Minaya

by itsmetsforme on Feb 25, 2009 1:17 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

You didn't win a prize one though, did you?

by Eric Simon on Feb 25, 2009 2:30 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I would say Trax

but that’s not obscure enough. Let’s try an all-time favorite (not joking)

Grant Roberts

by DevonEdwards on Feb 25, 2009 1:37 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Glendon Rusch

by Mount17 on Feb 25, 2009 1:43 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

was a lefty

by DevonEdwards on Feb 25, 2009 1:58 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Ricky Bottalico?

by m8rxmorphious2000 on Feb 25, 2009 1:48 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Kris Benson

Total guess.

by Straight Flushing on Feb 25, 2009 1:57 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I think you're right. Shit.

by DevonEdwards on Feb 25, 2009 1:58 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I think Benson was skinnier than this guy.

We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!

by kingcritical on Feb 25, 2009 1:59 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Turk Wendell!

Who's world is it? It's yours.

by BlackOps on Feb 25, 2009 2:13 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

David Weathers

by ams258 on Feb 25, 2009 2:16 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

that's gotta be Jose Lima

gotta be.

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

by kendynamo on Feb 25, 2009 2:25 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

My guess is Melissa Lima

King of the bling come to lay down the evidence//Not George Bush, L-Millz be da president

by Sam Page on Feb 25, 2009 2:39 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Heath Bell

I think the correct answer has already been guessed, so I’ll go with one of the few remaining white-righties from the ’04 Mets.

by cjmulrain on Feb 25, 2009 2:50 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

not fat enough

Not that you think it’s actually him anyways.

We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!

by kingcritical on Feb 25, 2009 2:51 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

yea

my pick was either Wheeler or Mike Dejean, who were both picked way earlier. Oh, well.

by cjmulrain on Feb 25, 2009 3:04 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Greg McMichael

by Endys Game on Feb 25, 2009 3:00 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Tom Glavine

I have no idea

by Itz Insan3 on Feb 25, 2009 3:17 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Hmm...

You’d think I’d remember a pitcher with a windup that had his arm seemingly straight back like that.

Heilman?

by JoshNY on Feb 25, 2009 3:25 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Those are some tight pants

I woulda gone with Turk but he already got picked.

'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Feb 25, 2009 3:49 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

victor zambrano

by gnr945 on Feb 25, 2009 3:52 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Grant Roberts

by James Kannengieser on Feb 25, 2009 4:02 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

braden looper

"You know I am only teasing. I love you gals out there -- always have." - Keith Hernandez

by OSUmets on Feb 25, 2009 4:02 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Todd Zeile

He did pitch 1 inning in ’04.

by tm on Feb 25, 2009 4:18 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Ricky Bottalico

And since we are on a Phuck Phillies streak lately…

by cuseindahuse on Feb 25, 2009 4:21 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Jay Seo?

I doubt it

by njmetfan12 on Feb 25, 2009 4:58 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Bartolome Fortunato

by MEX84 on Feb 25, 2009 5:30 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

wasn't he black?

by DevonEdwards on Feb 25, 2009 5:48 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Cant remember

Looks like the 04 uniform, just guessing names that havent been mentioned.

by MEX84 on Feb 25, 2009 6:42 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Brian

by GoReyesGo on Feb 25, 2009 9:22 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Brian Bannister

by GoReyesGo on Feb 25, 2009 9:22 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Shawn Estes

I can see him getting ready to throw behind Clements . . .

by 86_revisited on Feb 25, 2009 9:26 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

agh . . . i just remembered estes was a lefty . . .

I’m dumb.

by 86_revisited on Feb 25, 2009 9:27 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yea

Mystery Pitcher FAIL.

by Eric Simon on Feb 25, 2009 10:18 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

also

Clements?

by cjmulrain on Feb 25, 2009 11:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yea

Pretty sub-par comment all around.

by Eric Simon on Feb 25, 2009 11:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

So...

It’s actually:

Matt Ginter. Congrats to Reg, who got it right off the bat.

by Eric Simon on Feb 25, 2009 10:18 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

so the game is basically

ascertain the year, go to baseball-reference, and find the most obscure player you can?

by DevonEdwards on Feb 26, 2009 12:30 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

The trick, apparently is ascertaining the year.

I can’t tell one year’s uni from another. You guys must all have like super-HD monitors to be able to read the patches.

by BobbyV_Incognito on Feb 26, 2009 12:53 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Perhaps

I need to blur the entire uniform. I never thought that would be necessary but the ingenuity of this group may now require it.

by Eric Simon on Feb 26, 2009 1:15 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Not the entire uniform

But a sleeve patch that gives away the year… well, gives away the year.

by JoshNY on Feb 26, 2009 10:11 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe just the sleeve patches

This one was clear. 2004 had the distinct 40th anniversary patch for Shea Stadium. After that it was easy to narrow it down to the white RHP’s from that year. I could eliminate a few off the bat because of delivery. After that it was just a guess.

by Reg Dunlop on Feb 26, 2009 10:39 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

The Mets have only worn really distinctive arm patches

a handful of times. ‘64 and ’65 they wore a World’s Fair patch. ‘69 they wore an MLB centennial patch. ’76 they wore a US Bicentennial patch. ’86 they wore a “25th Anniversary patch,” ’92 they wore a William Shea patch, in ’94 they wore 2 patches: a “25th anniversary Miracle Mets” patch, and an MLB 125th anniversary patch, in 2002 they wore a 40th anniversary patch – apparently their definition of “anniversary” had changed between between 1986 and 2002. If ’86 was the 25th anniversary, then 2001 was the 40th. Instead they did superficial math (2002-1962 = 40, yay!) and didn’t realize that 2002 was their 41st season. This is the Mets post-millennium front office…Anyway, they wore the Shea 40th Anniversary patch seen in this picture in ‘04, and they wore the last year at Shea patch last year, and we’re all happy to know they’ll be wearing this beauty next year:

by cjmulrain on Feb 26, 2009 11:28 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

sorry, forgot to finish my post

They have worn arm patches in 10 of their 47 seasons, and 2 of those seasons were the same patch. When you consider how many obscure pitchers pitch in any given season, I don’t think blocking out the sleeves is necessary. I mean, we could probably find out which pitchers wore Mizuno gloves vs. Rawlings, etc. At what point do you have to just blur out the entire picture?

by cjmulrain on Feb 26, 2009 11:31 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs