{"id":1722,"date":"2011-08-10T17:23:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T17:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2013-12-14T17:25:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T17:25:13","slug":"one-after-one-after-909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1722","title":{"rendered":"One After One After 909"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The arrival of\u00a0Mike Baxter\u00a0on Monday ended a drought of 71 days without a Met making a debut &#8212; the longest such in-season drought since 1988 and the seventh-longest of all time. This gap, between\u00a0Dale Thayer\u00a0at 910 and Baxter at 911 follows an April during which 13 Mets made a debut &#8212; the most in that category since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>MBTN roster expert Jason E. crunched the numbers and came up with a list of the longest new-Met droughts in history, presented in handy chart form here. How about that pair from 1983?<\/p>\n<table width=\"400\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Gap<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Year<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Met No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Name<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Debut Date<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>96 Days<\/td>\n<td>1968<\/td>\n<td>163<\/td>\n<td>Al Weis<\/td>\n<td>April 15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>164<\/td>\n<td>Jim McAndrew<\/td>\n<td>July 21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>94 Days<\/td>\n<td>1988<\/td>\n<td>402<\/td>\n<td>Mackey Sasser<\/td>\n<td>April 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>403<\/td>\n<td>Bob McClure<\/td>\n<td>July 14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>84 Days<\/td>\n<td>1986<\/td>\n<td>384<\/td>\n<td>Rick Anderson<\/td>\n<td>June 9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>385<\/td>\n<td>Kevin Elster<\/td>\n<td>Sept. 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>80 Days<\/td>\n<td>1983<\/td>\n<td>348<\/td>\n<td>Keith Hernandez<\/td>\n<td>June 17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>349<\/td>\n<td>Ron Darling<\/td>\n<td>Sept. 6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>78 Days<\/td>\n<td>1971<\/td>\n<td>188<\/td>\n<td>Charlie Williams<\/td>\n<td>April 23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>189<\/td>\n<td>Jon Matlack<\/td>\n<td>July 11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>72 Days<\/td>\n<td>1969<\/td>\n<td>172<\/td>\n<td>Bobby Pfeil<\/td>\n<td>June 26<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>173<\/td>\n<td>Jim Gosger<\/td>\n<td>Sept. 7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>71 Days<\/td>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td>910<\/td>\n<td>Dale Thayer<\/td>\n<td>May 28<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>911<\/td>\n<td>Mike Baxter<\/td>\n<td>Aug. 8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arrival of\u00a0Mike Baxter\u00a0on Monday ended a drought of 71 days without a Met making a debut &#8212; the longest such in-season drought since 1988 and the seventh-longest of all time. This gap, between\u00a0Dale Thayer\u00a0at 910 and Baxter at 911 follows an April during which 13 Mets made a debut &#8212; the most in that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1722\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One After One After 909&#8221;<\/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":[548,329,555,533],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dale-thayer","tag-keith-hernandez","tag-mike-baxter","tag-ron-darling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","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=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1723,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}