Notes: Not too much noteworthy this year, although I did like Jim McAndrew as a 10 year old kid back in 1969. He was one of my first baseball cards that year as I learned about the team through them, along with the nightly radio broadcast via the Binghamton satellite station.
(1) New York Mets traded Jim McAndrew to the San Diego Padres for Steve Simpson (Dec 20, 1973)
(2) New York Mets traded Brian Ostrosser to the Cleveland Indians for Dwain Anderson (Jun 21, 1974)
I had never heard of Steve Simpson, as he never played for the Mets, but I read where he died of a heart attack at age 41 back in 1989. Way too young.
November 1972 through October 1973
(1) New York Mets traded Danny Frisella and Gary Gentry to the Atlanta Braves for Felix Millan and George Stone (Nov 1, 1972)
(2) New York Mets traded Tommie Agee to the Houston Astros for Rich Chiles and Buddy Harris (Nov 27, 1972)
(3) New York Mets traded Brent Strom and Bob Rauch to the Cleveland Indians for Phil Hennigan (Nov 27, 1972)
(4) New York Mets traded Dave Marshall to the San Diego Padres for Al Severinsen (Nov 30, 1972)
(5) New York Mets traded Bill Sudakis to the Texas Rangers for Bill McNulty (Mar 28, 1973)
November 1971
through October 1972
(2) New York Mets traded Arsenio Diaz, Curtis Brown, Billy Carthel and Don Koonce to the Montreal Expos for Jim Gosger (Dec 03, 1971)
(3) New York Mets traded Nolan Ryan, Leroy Stanton, Francisco Estrada and Don Rose to the California Angels for Jim Fregosi (Dec 10, 1971)
(4) New York Mets traded Tim Foli, Mike Jorgensen and Ken Singleton to the Montreal Expos for Rusty Staub (Apr 06, 1972)
(5) New York Mets traded Charlie Williams to the San Francisco Giants for Willie Mays (May 11, 1972)
Trivia: Nolan Ryan hold many pitching records and led the league in quite a few categories in many years he pitched, but the one stat he never led the league in his 27 years of pitching was wins. He did lead the league in losses one year, but never wins.
I never realized Leroy Stanton had as good a career as he did. While not one of the great players, he nevertheless had 77 homers among his 628 hits. He put together a solid .699 OBP over 2575 major league at-bats.
Yes, In one of Tom's articles this week he called the Staub/Singleton trade a draw. Actually, Singleton had 39.3 WAR after he was traded from the Mets and Staub accumulated just 6.8 WAR in his 9 years in New York. Yikes.
I remember the trade that brought Willie to the Mets, but I don't remember his .402 OBP in 242 plate appearances in 1972 after the trade at the age of 41. Not many guys can boast an OBP of .848 even once in their career, let alone after 40. Unfortunately, that OBP dropped off by about a hundred points in 1973 in about the same number of plate appearances.
4 comments:
Great stuff. My first year was 72 so this is my developmental wheelhouse. Such a different time. The yearbook was so important because you followed more reading the newspaper and sporting news etc because there weren't a lot of games on TV. Radio and print, this is a great way to revisit it. Thanks!
Thanks Richard...it has been a fun series to do. My first year of the Mets was 1969, so this is bringing back some of those early memories for me as well
Tommie Agee was my favorite Met when I first started following them in 1971. I remember taking it hard when he was traded.
Bob W.
Tough trades - brings back nightmares.
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