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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