For all you peeps who like to number crunch and stuff. Thanks to M.Simon for sending me this tip. Now I am just waiting for the inevitable big Mets news that happens when Shannon is away.
There are a lot of ways to twist the numbers when looking at the first half of David Wright’s 2012 season.
.350 BA, 1.000 OPS, 250 PA at Break
New York City Baseball Players
David Wright 2012 Mets
Derek Jeter 1999 Yankees
Bernie Williams 1998 Yankees
Paul O’Neill 1994 Yankees
Mickey Mantle 1956-57 Yankees
Duke Snider 1954 Dodgers
Jackie Robinson 1950-1951 Dodgers
Pete Reiser 1941 Dodgers
Joe DiMaggio 1936, 1941 Yankees
Bill Dickey 1936 Yankees
Lou Gehrig 1934. 36, 37 Yankees
But our favorite is the one in the chart on the right. Since the All-Star Game divided the season into two chunks in 1933, there have been 16 instances in which a New York City baseball player racked up 250 plate appearances, a .350 batting average and a 1.000 OPS.They didn’t know about OPS back in the days of Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Jackie Robinson, or Duke Snider, but New York baseball fans knew a special season when they had one.
Those numbers have only been achieved by the most beloved of ballplayers to come through these parts (Willie Mays didn’t hit them until the Giants moved to San Francisco).
Read the whole article here.
The Mets have to re-sign Wright…may as well do it now. Hopefully he will become an everyday player who the Mets developed, kept for his whole career and who gets over 2,000 hits. And he’ll be the ONLY SUCH HITTER IN OVER 50 YEARS OF METS HISTORY.