alltime great Mets 25 man roster

[ruben safir]

1st - Hernandez
2nd - Fonzie
3rd - Wright
SS - Reyes
C - Piazza
LF - Cleon Jones
CF - Carlos Beltran
RF - Daryl Strawberry

Pitching 1 Seaver
Pitching 2 Gooden
Pitching 3 Cone
Pitching 4 Matlack
Pitching 5 DeGrom

Relief 1 Orosco
Relief 2 Franco
Relief 3 Koosman
Relief 4 Johan Santana

C - Hundley
IF - Olerud
IF - HoJo
IF - Ventura
IF - Rosario (I need a SS and we hav none)
OF - Maz
OF - Cepedes
OF - Agee

That is a 25 man roster.

[Beach Runner]

You;d rather have Cleon Jones and Cespedas?
Hundley over Carter or Grote
Rosario hasn't really proven himself. Mets won a lot of games with Harrelson.

[ruben safir]

On 02/03/2018 05:36 PM, Beach Runner wrote:
> Rosario hasn't really proven himself. Mets won a lot of games with Harrelson.

and lost a lot of games with Harrelson.
They've had no SS's other than Reyes and Harrelson, unless you want to
consider Hubbie Brooks, Howard Johnson, and Wilma Flores.

[Ruben Safir]

If you look at it closely, you relize it is not really close. Jones was
a much better ballplayer than Cespedes and Cespedes has been injured.

> Hundley over Carter or Grote

Actually, before Carter would be Sterns

Piazza, Hundley, Sterns, Carter.

Carter had a lotof bad years in NY.

> Rosario hasn't really proven himself. Mets won a lot of games with Harrelson.

OK St Reye has been the best SS they have had ;)

[tmp]

No argument with the starting lineup.

I can't put Rosario on the team based on what, 2 months? Of course, I think he will be there eventually.

Instead of Rosario, I have to get Carter on the team. I know he was only there 5 years, but he was such a key player and prominent figure on two of the best Mets teams ever, 98 wins in 1985, and 108 wins and the World Series in 1986 (They've only won 2 of those). He also played on the 1988 team (100 wins), although clearly diminished.

If you want a 2nd SS, either Ordonez or Harrelson can replace Maz.

[Ruben Safir]

I thought the contraversal point would be Mazilli on the roster.
Basically, after mulling things over, I decided that Maz was one of the
6th best OFer we have had, and I based that on his very good OBP, which
was nearlly 400 and his outstanding contribution in '86. When you look
back on it, Maz was a better OFer for the Mets than Dykstra, McReyolds,
Granderson, Staub, Mitchel, Kingman, and even that all time great, Agbiani!

I also left Murph and Kent off the list and there is no 2ndbaseman on
the bench.

[tmp]

Once you get past the obvious ones, there's always room for debate. I just scanned the list, and went from memory, and Rosario being there and Carter missing were the only 2 that jumped off the page.

Without researching the numbers, I can't say off hand whether Maz belongs there or not, but he was one of my favorite players from back in that era. Other than the throwing arm, he was a pretty decent all around player. The Mets have not exactly had a lot of great outfielders, at least not one in the prime of their careers.