Sunday, September 30, 2018

#181-182 Ed Kranepool Ed Kranepool In Action


Mr Met, for real.... when you’re Met, you’re a Met  all the way....one team player over 18 seasons...saw low lows and  a miracle WS championship...a late year call up taking a huge leap from NY-Penn league to 1962 Mets as a teenager....did not take long to get steady work (1964) and accounted himself well with consistently cellar dwelling Mets....A case of economics, limited distribution of runs within a mostly slender talent pool....RBI total never exceed 60 in any one of his 18 years, topped out at 16 homers....but could hit for average for good stretches at time....later on, in his 13th to 16th seasons hit .300, .323, .291, .282 in sequence....t..but had a bad spell in 1968-1970, hit .231, .238. and the nightmarish .170....he redeeming event was getting 1969 WS ring despite taking second fiddle to Don Clendenon’s heroics....Things got so bad in 1970 that he demoted to AAA minors for most of the season....considered retiring but staged a strong comeback in 1971 with 14 home runs, .280 BA....mostly known as a first baseman but dabbled in right field when crowded out by the aforementioned Clendenon, and John Milner.....    


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