Big thanks to @davesmetsdugout for sending this over, which is awesome since today is one of the days where even I have to Actually Work.
So, being honest, I was like Mota? Was Manny Mota a Mets coach? No, I don’t think so, so I googled Mota Mets and was reminded Guillermo Mota was a 2006-2007 Met!
Now I know you millennials like WAR, his WAR with the Mets is 0.1 which means (I think) that if we pretended there was a minor leaguer and made the pretend minor leaguer into a real boy we would have won 1/10th fewer games in two years than we did with an actual person. And if that isn’t the case for “advanced” stats, what is?
Mr. Mota was traded to the Brewers for Johnny Estrada. Maybe some other day I will google Johnny Estrada, but that day is not today.
Most impressively, Mr Mota pitched 14 major league seasons without me noticing.
Here’s to you Mr. Mota, and here’s to you owner of Mr. Mota’s jersey!