(Current Met) Is The Next (Hall Of Famer)

by James Kannengieser on Jul 11, 2009 12:47 PM EDT

This past offseason, we learned that Oliver Perez is the next Sandy Koufax. It's an obvious assessment and I'm not sure how only Scott Boras realized it.

According to Rhodes Scholar and SNY talking head Marc Malusis, Jeff Francoeur is the next Mickey Mantle. Thank you Marc for bringing this comp to our attention.

Here are some more Hall of Fame comparisons for current Mets players. See if you can come up with any others:

Omir Santos is the next Roy Campanella
Livan Hernandez is the next Kid Nichols
Bobby Parnell is the next Goose Gossage
Argenis Reyes is the next Rod Carew

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When will

Argenis officially convert to Judaism?

by Eric Simon on Jul 11, 2009 2:16 PM EDT reply actions

Would he have to?

Rod never did, no matter what Adam Sandler said.

by Alex Nelson on Jul 11, 2009 4:00 PM EDT up reply actions

You put the extra effort into finding comparable photos

and it paid off. Well done.

by TheBigStapler on Jul 11, 2009 2:26 PM EDT reply actions

To be fair, we may have the "next" current Mickey Mantle on our team.

Sheffield’s similarity score to Mantle: 851
Mantle’s 2nd highest comp.
Francoeur’s similar players?
Johnny Rizzo, Butch Huskey, Jim Greengrass, Mark Carreon, Michael Cuddyer, Junior Felix, Xavier Nady, Wes Helms, Mark Teahen, Kevin Mench. Bleh.

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

by squid92 on Jul 11, 2009 2:40 PM EDT reply actions

well, to be fair, we did like Xavier Nady

and Mark Carreon “My Wayward Son” had a very good Chris Berman nickname. So there’s that too.

by JoshNY on Jul 11, 2009 11:24 PM EDT up reply actions

And Butch Huskey was husky, so there's that.

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but Jerry abuses the privilege.

by AnthonyR on Jul 14, 2009 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions

Argenis = Rod Carew?

Argenis hits more like Rod Serling. He’s more of the next Rabbit Maranville. Couldn’t hit, either, but good enough with the leather to make it to the Hall of Fame. Also, he loved to fight.

by BobbyV_Incognito on Jul 11, 2009 3:00 PM EDT reply actions