You kids probably never heard of Ed Hearn. Good solid backup catcher for the ’86ers…and went away in a trade for some kid named David Cone who would pitch out of the bullpen in ’87.
Maybe you remember Ed Hearn. He played in 49 games and hit .265 as a bespectacled, backup catcher on the last Met team to win a World Series. The man in front of him, Gary Carter, would go on to Cooperstown.
Hearn would go on to Kansas City, where he would wreck his shoulder, get blamed for the worst trade in Royals history (David Cone went to the Mets), and then spend two decades living with a horrific kidney disease, enduring pain and hardship that PETA people wouldn’t wish on Michael Vick.
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