Most Popular Mets Pages On Baseball-Reference

by James Kannengieser on Feb 12, 2011 6:15 PM EST

The irreplaceable Baseball-Reference keeps track of the most viewed player and team pages since the site's launch in 2000, linked here. The top 200 are listed. Some big names top the list (Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Babe Ruth), as do some famous teams (1998 Yankees, 2004 Red Sox, 2001 Mariners). Where do Mets players and teams rank? Click after the jump to find out.

First, the most popular players:

Some notes:

There you have it, R.A. Dickey > Tom Seaver
Jeff Francoeur and several other saber lightning rods appear (J.A. Happ, Joe Saunders, Andre Dawson).
Lucas Duda, Dillon Gee and Mike Nickeas are among a crew of players on the list who made their MLB debut in 2010. I'm not sure what that's about.
Edgar Renteria is the most surprising player in the top ten.

Now, the most popular Mets teams:

Nothing really stands out here -- the notable seasons in Mets history are present. Maybe 1998 and 2001 are a little surprising. The 1986 Mets are the highest ranked non-Yankees squad. Carry on with your Saturday evening.

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I'm sorry. What?

Dillon Gee’s page has been visited more time than has Tom Seaver’s?

by Eric Simon on Feb 12, 2011 6:17 PM EST reply actions

Yeah

I don’t want to believe that Francoeur’s profile is the 62nd most visited of all players in the history of MLB.

I refuse to believe it.

by hotspur on Feb 12, 2011 6:40 PM EST up reply actions

We need to fix that.

"And that's why anybody who invested with Lenny Dykstra should really call that number. Lawyers are standing by."

by BobbyV_Incognito on Feb 12, 2011 9:53 PM EST up reply actions

Why's it so hard to believe

People want to come and marvel at how someone so statistically awful could still be a starting player for so long. Its like going to a freak show.

by chakrabs on Feb 13, 2011 11:46 AM EST up reply actions

I probably account for about 20,000 of those views

While trying to figure out ways to better mock and ridicule him through bad song spoofs or poetry.

It's a triumph of number crunching over the human spirit...aaaaaand, it’s about time. -- Play-by-Play Announcer, The Simpsons.

by MookieTheCat on Feb 13, 2011 5:40 PM EST up reply actions

The old folks don't visit the internets?

by EtSuKe on Feb 12, 2011 7:57 PM EST up reply actions

Ty. Wigginton.

"The team is not for sale, in whole or in part. There is no need to sell, there is no reason to sell. There will be no sale."
-Dave Howard

by Dandy Salderson on Feb 12, 2011 6:21 PM EST reply actions

im sorry

but who is looking at mike nickeas page? why?

Roy Oswalt 3rd was surprising, but Dawson as a top 10 view was more surprising to me than renteria since edgar is at least a current player

I like Ike, I hate Jerry

by astromets on Feb 12, 2011 6:24 PM EST reply actions

guys, life is not a web page

Its just a data point :-) go outside, get some sunshine

by dantyre on Feb 12, 2011 6:37 PM EST reply actions

But it's cold outside!

And scary

by James Kannengieser on Feb 12, 2011 6:39 PM EST up reply actions

what's "outside"?

Also: what’s “sunshine”?

"go watch another episode of dahrma and greg you butt nutt"
-lohaus#54
The fan formely known as 0(+> (pronounced MetFanWithaPlan)

by JoeBighead on Feb 12, 2011 6:57 PM EST up reply actions

It burns us!

Save Jenrry Mejia!

by Ogre39666 on Feb 13, 2011 1:39 AM EST up reply actions

Seaver is the oddest one being as far as being low.

I get the rookies getting a lot of hits, but you’d think a guy like FMart or Mejia who were hyped prospects that made their debuts in the last couple years would be higher than Nickeas.

Also, not bringing any new info here, but 155 career WAR from Willie Mays is so godly.

by FrancoTAU on Feb 12, 2011 8:01 PM EST reply actions

JA Happ almost cracking the top 20

wow.

I bet Jerry Manuel just bunted.

by GilbertP on Feb 12, 2011 8:47 PM EST reply actions

There has to be something wrong with this data

Not even Mike Nickeas’s mom would look at his page almost 100,000 times.

by supermets on Feb 12, 2011 9:32 PM EST reply actions

Weird

I cynically thought these “unestablished” players were getting high rankings because their advertisers were trying to game the system.

An additional link from a website as well-connected as B-F is probably worth a lot and search engine optimization guys are subhuman vultures actively trying to ruin the internets.

I can’t find a connection there. Duda is sponsored by a Mets blog and Nickeas doesn’t even have one so he gets a John Deere ad.

by hotspur on Feb 12, 2011 10:47 PM EST via mobile reply actions