{"id":1656,"date":"2011-03-19T14:55:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T14:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2013-12-14T14:57:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T14:57:46","slug":"whos-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1656","title":{"rendered":"Who’s Number One?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"MBTN readers rock! Check out the photo here from\u00a0Richard<\/strong>\u00a0from Dix Hills, who was down at Lake Buena Vista this afternoon and delivered this heartwarming photo of\u00a0Mookie Wilson\u00a0back wearing the number God intended for him. As everyone knows, No. 1 has been occupied for more than three years by\u00a0Luis Castillo, whose departure Friday caused some mixed feeling here. And let’s face it, the idea he had somehow usurped Mookie’s birthright was one of the reasons so few were sad to see him go.<\/p>\n

But let’s be fair to Castillo for a change and acknowledge that while he’ll never go down as anyone’s favorite No. 1, he stuck around long enough and accomplished in sufficient enough quantities to rank higher than most others who have shared the No. 1 jersey. Would you believe that as we approach 50 seasons of Mets history, only Mookie has appeared in more games wearing No. 1? Castillo’s.274 career batting average with the Mets trails only\u00a0Lance Johnson’s .326,\u00a0Richie Ashburn’s .306 and Mookie’s own .276 among all players to wear No.1 for the Mets. Here’s how it all shakes out among the top\u00a0No. 1s\u00a0in Mets history, ranked by games played in the jersey —\u00a0Vince Coleman’s 1993 wearing No. 11 doesn’t count:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Player<\/strong><\/td>\nSeasons<\/strong><\/td>\nG<\/strong><\/td>\nAB<\/strong><\/td>\nR<\/strong><\/td>\nH<\/strong><\/td>\n2B<\/strong><\/td>\n3B<\/strong><\/td>\nHR<\/strong><\/td>\nRBI<\/strong><\/td>\nBB<\/strong><\/td>\nSB<\/strong><\/td>\nBA<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mookie Wilson<\/td>\n1980-89<\/td>\n1116<\/td>\n4027<\/td>\n592<\/td>\n1112<\/td>\n170<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n342<\/td>\n240<\/td>\n281<\/td>\n.276<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Luis Castillo<\/td>\n2007-10<\/td>\n365<\/td>\n1230<\/td>\n188<\/td>\n377<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n105<\/td>\n182<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n.274<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Charley Smith<\/td>\n1964-65<\/td>\n262<\/td>\n942<\/td>\n93<\/td>\n228<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n36<\/td>\n120<\/td>\n36<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n.242<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lance Johnson<\/td>\n1996-97<\/td>\n232<\/td>\n947<\/td>\n160<\/td>\n309<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n27<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n93<\/td>\n66<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n.326<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jerry Buchek<\/td>\n1967-68<\/td>\n197<\/td>\n603<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n132<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n52<\/td>\n36<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n.219<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vince Coleman<\/td>\n1991-92<\/td>\n143<\/td>\n507<\/td>\n82<\/td>\n134<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n38<\/td>\n66<\/td>\n61<\/td>\n.264<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Richie Ashburn<\/td>\n1962<\/td>\n135<\/td>\n389<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n119<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n81<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n.306<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ed Bressoud<\/td>\n1966<\/td>\n133<\/td>\n405<\/td>\n48<\/td>\n91<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n.225<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bobby Valentine<\/td>\n1977-78<\/td>\n111<\/td>\n243<\/td>\n25<\/td>\n46<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n.189<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MBTN readers rock! Check out the photo here from\u00a0Richard\u00a0from Dix Hills, who was down at Lake Buena Vista this afternoon and delivered this heartwarming photo of\u00a0Mookie Wilson\u00a0back wearing the number God intended for him. As everyone knows, No. 1 has been occupied for more than three years by\u00a0Luis Castillo, whose departure Friday caused some mixed … Continue reading “Who’s Number One?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[516],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mookie-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}