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Well the season remains frustratingly hopeless, and I’ll shortly be off to Flushing to watch Zack Wheeler (along with returning bullpen stiffs Avilan, Familia and Wilson) audition for the Yankees, but let’s take a moment to celebrate the naming of three deserving All-Stars from this year’s roster.<\/p>\n
It needed to be pointed out to me that Jeff McNeil became the first Met All-Star ever to wear the number 6; then again, McNeil is doing lots of things no No. 6 has ever done<\/a>. And that prompted my pals at the Crane Pool Forum<\/a>, particularly Faith & Fear’s own Greg Prince, to assemble this handy numerical list of all Met All-Stars, by the number. (correcting the accident of transposing the Cone appearances):<\/p>\n 1 Ashburn (two games-1962), L. Johnson Well, this means the Mets still need an 11, a 19, a 23, a 38, a 39 and a 46 to make the All-Star club.<\/p>\n As to the roster changes, relievers Wilson, Avilan and Familia are up and that means Brooks Pounders, Steven Nogosek and Chris Mazza are down. Along with Carlos Gomez’s recent DFA, that’s a lot of high-uni numbers banished. Also, Luis Guillorme is back, and Chris Flexen is down. Lotsa high numbers out.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well the season remains frustratingly hopeless, and I’ll shortly be off to Flushing to watch Zack Wheeler (along with returning bullpen stiffs Avilan, Familia and Wilson) audition for the Yankees, but let’s take a moment to celebrate the naming of three deserving All-Stars from this year’s roster. It needed to be pointed out to me … Continue reading “Star Search”<\/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":[626],"tags":[872,873,645,823,757,851,860,853,869],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-useless-milestones","tag-brooks-pounders","tag-chris-mazza","tag-jacob-degrom","tag-jeff-mcneil","tag-jeurys-familia","tag-justin-wilson","tag-luis-avilan","tag-pete-alonso","tag-steven-nogosek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","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=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3128,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions\/3128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2 Valentine (Mgr)
\n3 Harrelson (2)
\n4 Snider
\n5 D. Johnson (Mgr), Wright (7)
\n6 McNeil<\/strong>
\n7 Kranepool, Reyes (4)
\n8 Berra (Mgr), Carter (4)
\n9 Hundley (2)
\n10 Collins (Coach 2x, Mgr)
\n12 Stearns (4), Darling
\n13 Alfonzo, Wagner (2)
\n14 Hodges (Mgr)
\n15 Grote (2), Beltran (4)
\n16 Mazzilli, Gooden (4), Lo Duca
\n17 Hernandez (3), Cone-1992
\n18 Youngblood, Strawberry (7), Saberhagen
\n20 H. Johnson (2), Alonso<\/strong>
\n21 C. Jones
\n22 Leiter
\n24 Mays (2)
\n25 Bonilla (2)
\n26 Kingman
\n27 Familia
\n28 B. Jones, Murphy
\n29 Viola (2)
\n30 Conforto
\n31 Franco, Piazza (7)
\n32 Matlack (3)
\n33 Hunt (2), Harvey
\n34 Syndergaard
\n35 Reed (2)
\n36 Koosman (2)
\n37 Stengel (Coach)
\n40 Zachry, Colon
\n41 Seaver (9)
\n43 Dickey
\n44 Cone-1988
\n45 McGraw, Martinez (2)
\n47 Orosco (2), Glavine (2)
\n48 deGrom<\/strong> (3)
\n49 Benitez
\n50 Fernandez (2)
\n52 Cespedes
\n57 Santana
\n75 Rodriguez<\/p>\n