The greatest every-day player in New York Mets history — the team’s second-best player ever — should go to Cooperstown wearing a cap with an “LA” logo.
Piazza was a Dodger first.
And best.
It was as a Dodger that he became a baseball somebody, making the NL All-Star team in each of his five full seasons in LA. It was as a Dodger that he emerged as the most productive offensive catcher in baseball history and made his most compelling case for his inevitable, first-ballot induction into the Hall of Fame in 2013.