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The Top 50 Mets of All Time: #48 Joel Youngblood
The Mets received Joel Youngblood from the Cardinals in exchange for infielder Mike Phillips on June 15, 1977. That same day they also traded away Tom Seaver and Dave Kingman. Hard to believe Youngblood didn’t capture any headlines, right? * * * In some ways it should have been impossible...
The Top 50 Mets of All Time: #49 Bobby Bonilla
"When I said that Carney Lansford was an awful third baseman, I didn’t mean that he was as bad as Bobby Bonilla. Bonilla, listed at 240 pounds, has played about 8,000 career innings at third base, so I suppose that makes him a third baseman, and if you sent him into space a few times I...
The Top 50 Mets of All Time: #50 Bob Ojeda
He was the odd duck of the 1986 Mets’ rotation, the one who didn’t quite belong. He wasn’t homegrown like Doc Gooden or Rick Aguilera, nor was he a young pitcher shrewdly bought on the cheap, like Ron Darling or Sid Fernandez. And despite being the oldest by three years, he...
The Top 50 Mets Of All Time: #32 Rick Reed
Rick Reed was a struggling journeyman with exactly one solid season on his resume when an opportunity for increased playing time presented itself in the form of the protracted labor dispute that canceled the 1994 World Series and threatened the 1995 season as well. In January of 1995, Major League...
The Top 50 Mets of All Time: #33 Tommie Agee
In 1967, the Mets went 61-101, clearing the century mark in losses for the fifth time in six seasons (the outlier, 1966, saw them lose only 95 games). Looking to shore up their defense and get a bit younger in the process, on December 15, 1967, the Mets completed a long-discussed trade that sent...
The Top 50 Mets of All Time: #34 Bobby Bonilla
In the seven years from 1984 through 1990, the Mets had an incredible run of success during which they averaged better than 95 wins per season. Manager Davey Johnson had been dispatched a quarter of the way through the 1990 season, and his replacement, Bud Harrelson, was similarly replaced midway...
The Top 50 Mets of All Time: #35 Lenny Dykstra
With the ninth pick in the first round of the 1981 June amateur draft the Texas Rangers selected a 6'3" power right-handed pitcher out of Yale named Ron Darling. Twelve rounds and 306 picks later the Mets selected Lenny Dykstra out of Garden Grove High School in California. Five feet, ten inches...
The Top 50 Mets of All Time: #36 Tom Glavine
After spending sixteen mostly-splendid seasons pitching for the Braves, a stretch that included two Cy Young awards, five top-three finishes and eight All-Star appearances, 36-year-old Tom Glavine was a free agent looking for one last big-money deal to get him to 300 wins and baseball immortality....
The Top 50 Mets of All Time: #37 Wally Backman
Walter Wayne Backman was selected by the Mets in the first round -- sixteenth overall -- of the 1977 amateur draft out of Aloha High School in Aloha, OR. As a 17-year-old he was assigned to Little Falls of the New York Penn League and was dominant at the plate, hitting .325/.395/.451 in 255...
The Top 50 Mets of All Time: #38 Steve Trachsel
In 2000, the Mets snagged the National League Wild Card and rode their playoff appearance all the way to the World Series where they eventually lost to some other team in five games. That offseason brought the defection of two-fifths of their starting rotation, as Mike Hampton fled to Colorado...
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