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Beyond the Boxscore has featured a couple of graphs similar to this comparing seasons ranked by WAR. I thought I'd give it a try. (I used only catchers with a long Mets tenure and I think my cutoff was ~ 100 PA for excluding first and last seasons. It didn't make much of a difference)

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Nice job

Carter’s career with the Mets was really interesting. He had one outstanding season (1985, 6.7 WAR), one very good season (1986, 3.8 WAR), one okay season (1987, 1.0 WAR) and two replacement-level seasons (1988, 0.2 WAR; 1989, -0.3 WAR).

by Eric Simon on Mar 12, 2009 12:23 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

what's strange is that these charts aren't sequential

except Carter’s is. His decline was steep and quick. And who knew that Stearns best season was as good as Piazza’s.

by cjmulrain on Mar 12, 2009 7:17 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I can only assume

that replacement-level at catcher in the late 1970s must’ve been REALLY bad.

by JoshNY on Mar 12, 2009 9:04 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

yea

I’m sure. But still, pretty impressive from Stearns, he’s one of the myriad of guys from the 70’s & 80’s who’s probably severely underrated b/c of the offensive boom of the 90’s.

by cjmulrain on Mar 12, 2009 12:16 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

You're probably right.

I still find it tough to get too excited over Stearns when he only played more than 100 games in a season three times. On the flip side, I was probably blinded by the ridiculous offensive numbers Piazza put up and didn’t recognize that an OPS+ of 111 and 121 out of your catcher (Stearns in 1977 and 1978), who also plays good defense (which I’m pretty sure Stearns did), is pretty darn useful.

by JoshNY on Mar 12, 2009 12:38 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Wow.

Grote was really, really durable for a catcher.

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

by squid92 on Mar 12, 2009 9:57 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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