Welcome back to Panic City.
The Mets look old and slow this season, occasionally dangerous, but lacking a rhythm and reliability. All that depth it looked like they had is already being tested, and the Phillies really outplayed us at home this week.
I was less disappointed in last night’s opener vs. Washington, optimistically taking away a sense that Granderson has realized the season has begun finally and getting more confident in Matt Harvey who’s just been great. It would appear that Terry must have been informed to stop bullpenning so damn much, though struggling offenses make for bad bullpens generally.
TJ Rivera and (today’s starter?) Sean Gilmartin are back. I’d like to see Gavin Cecchini and Brandon Nimmo here, but Nimmo also has hammy issues.
From the comments section: Chris points out that Travis d’Arnaud has become the first Met player ever to record at least 50 hits wearing three different uni numbers, becoming a king of the three-number club). Big congrats! And Edward points out that Robert Gsellman’s unsightly No. 65 perhaps isn’t only a spring training leftover but a tribute to the unusual name riding above it: 65ELLMAN. Maybe?
Here’s the entire 3-Number Club:
| Player | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |
| Jeff McKnight | 15 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 18 |
| Kevin Collins | 10 | 19 | 16 | 1 | |
| Pedro Feliciano | 55 | 39 | 25 | 55 | |
| Ed Lynch | 59 | 35 | 34 | 36 | |
| Darrell Sutherland | 47 | 43 | 45 | ||
| Cleon Jones | 34 | 12 | 21 | ||
| John Stephenson | 49 | 19 | 12 | ||
| Jim Hickman | 9 | 27 | 6 | ||
| Mike Jorgensen | 10 | 16 | 22 | ||
| Hank Webb | 42 | 30 | 29 | ||
| Hubie Brooks | 62 | 39 | 7 | ||
| Clint Hurdle | 33 | 13 | 7 | ||
| Chuck Carr | 7 | 1 | 27 | ||
| Kevin Elster | 2 | 21 | 15 | ||
| Charlie O’Brien | 33 | 5 | 22 | ||
| Ron Darling | 44 | 12 | 15 | ||
| Jason Phillips | 26 | 7 | 23 | ||
| David Cone | 44 | 17 | 16 | ||
| Jae Seo | 38 | 40 | 26 | ||
| Roger Craig | 38 | 36 | 13 | ||
| Lee Mazzilli | 12 | 16 | 13 | ||
| Mike DiFelice | 33 | 6 | 9 | ||
| Marlon Anderson | 18 | 23 | 9 | ||
| Ramon Martinez | 22 | 26 | 6 | ||
| Robinson Cancel | 4 | 40 | 29 | ||
| Anderson Hernandez | 1 | 4 | 11 | ||
| Omar Quintanilla | 6 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Travis d’Arnaud | 15 | 7 | 18 |
You forgot Smoker!
Remember, it’s only April. What’s that? It’s May? Oh, crap…
Smoker seems like the type of guy who would appreciate the McKnight record. And he’s 3/5 of the way there already.
I got Smokey in 49, 59, and now back in 49. Did he change again? He didn’t accrue any stats in is first go-round as a 49 so I’m not really counting that. If I did I’d also move Jason Phillips to the 4-numbered guys because he hung out for a few hours wearing No. 3 once
If I remember correctly, Senor Smoke switched to 58 for the last few weeks of the season after Salas came to NY and claimed his customary 59.
As usual the readers are right!
Smoker deserves a medal for giving up 49 to the corpse of Jon Niese.
Feliciaño is listed in 55 twice. On purpose?
Yes was counting them as separate issues
Looks like the Rosario era is about to begin. 1? 11? 16?
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