Welcome to Puppy Avenue 2013!

A happy Opening Day to all of you and I'd like to take a moment to welcome you to the 2013 edition of Puppy Avenue! Before we get to the 2013 Puppy Avenue roster, let's take a look back and honor those dogs from last season who will not don the uniform of the Amazins in 2013. Some of them we'll miss, many of them we won't miss, but we do like to pay tribute to their efforts with the team.

And now, without further ado, here is the 2013 Puppy Avenue roster, pieced together by the Amazin' Avenue community!

Infield

Ike Davis Dog (Isles732)

Yawning Ike Davis Dog (Bobby Baseball)

Drunk Ike Davis Dog

Daniel Murphy Dog (Ogre39666)

Ruben "Muscles" Tejada puppy (Steve Sypa)

Ruben Tejada Dog graduating from Junior High School (LGNYM)

David Wright Dog (METSMETSMETS)

David "Captain America" Wright Dog (Steve Sypa)

David "Eyebrows" Wright Dog (MetsFan4Decades), though it certainly could be Josh Satin, as suggested by LGNYM (Click for an animated GIF)

John Buck Dog – The Dog Catcher (Patrick Flood)

John Buck Dog (Bobby Baseball)

Outfield

Lucas Duda Dog, formerly known as Ramon Castro Hippo (Syler)

Lucas Duda Dog is having some trouble in the outfield (Steve Sypa)

Marlon Byrd Dog (Bobby Baseball)

Marlon Dog Bird (Steve Sypa)

Collin Cowgill Dog (Thaddeus Ballpheasant)

Collin Cowgill Dog (Steve Sypa)

Mike Baxter Dog, our little gentleman! (Bobby Baseball)

Captain Kirk Nieuwenhuis Dog (JetsMetsNets)

Surfer Kirk Nieuwenhuis Dog, bro'ing it up on the waves (djletz)

Bench

Jordany Valdespin Dog, with a selfie taken from Jordany Valdespin Dog's Instagram account (Bobby Baseball)

Jordany Valdespin Dog when he wasn't wearing a cup and Justin Verlander Dog nailed him in a sensitive spot (JetsMetsNets)

Jordany Valdespin Dog after deciding to wear a cup (Bobby Baseball)

Justin Turner Dog (JetsMetsNets)

Justin Turner Dog at his rightful place on the bench (Bobby Baseball)

Justin Turner Dog preparing for his pie-throwing gig

Omar Quintanilla Dog (Steve Sypa)

Brandon "The Hick" Hicks Dog (JetsMetsNets)

Starting Rotation

Jon Niese Dog (Steve Sypa)

Matt E. Harvey Dog (Adam Halverson)

Every home needs a Harvey Dog (djletz)

Dillon Gee Dog

Jeremy Hefner Dog

Johan Santana Dog is out of shape (RADickeyinabox)

Bullpen

Captain Fastball Bobby Parnell Dog (Hoyadestroya85)

Brandon Lyon Dog (Bobby Baseball)

LaTroy Hawkins Dog

Frank Francisco Dog (TKFJ)

Tim Byrdak Dog (Bobby Baseball)

Coaches

Terrier Collins Dog (Adam Halverson, with hat tip to SomeMetFan for the name)

Dave Hudgens Dog, teaching some Mets how to take a walk (Steve Sypa)

Dan Warthen Dog (Steve Sypa)

Dave Racaniello Dog (Steve Sypa)

Prospects

Zack Wheeler Dog

Other Zack Wheeler Dog (Hoyadestroya85)

Travis d'Arnaud Dog waiting for his big league call up (MetsFan4Decades)

Travis d'Arnaud Dog, enjoying his first big league call up (JetsMetsNets)

What Matt den Dekker Dog could've looked like post-wrist surgery (JetsMetsNets)

Luckily, Matt den Dekker dog didn't need surgery! (RADickeyinabox)

Matt "Dog" Dekker (FlushtownFandom) (Click for Animated GIF goodness)

Jenrry Mejia Dog (Ownbey4Mex)

Noah Syndergaard Puppy (Steve Sypa)

Mets Prospect Dogs (Adam Halverson)

Front Office

Sandy Alderson Dog (LGNYM)

Sandy Alderson Dog working his TRAID magic (MetsFan4Decades) (Click for animated GIF)

Jay Horwitz Dog, probably butt-dialing somebody (LGNYM)

Saul Katz (Adam Halverson)

SNY Personalities

Keith Hernandez Dog has some new highlighters for his scorecards (Steve Sypa)

Ron Darling Dog tears up the book (but I thought there was no book...?) (Steve Sypa)

Kevin Burkhardt Dog (Bobby Baseball)

Ralph Kiner Dog is a #TrueSABR (Steve Sypa)

Other Assorted Dogs

Adam Rubin Dog (LGNYM)

Endy Chavez Dog, circa 2006 (Bobby Baseball)

Carlos Beltran Dog, getting blamed for things as usual (Bobby Baseball)

Steve Phillips and an ESPN Intern (FlushtownFandom)

Bobby Bonilla Dog, still getting paid by the Mets BREAKING NEWS LOLMETS GUIZE! (OSUMets)

Rickey Henderson and Bobby Bonilla Dog playing cards in the clubhouse (FlushtownFandom with hat tip from Steve Sypa)

That's all for Puppy Avenue 2013! Happy Opening Day and Let's Go Mets!