Tom Brennan - Some Mighty Interesting Career Mets Stats

I love Mets stats - ever since I was a kid back in the 1960s looking at baseball stats in the Sporting News and on Sunday in the Daily News, but as many stats as I may be familiar with, there are plenty of  key Mets stats I wasn't.  I see new stats all the time and find them to be interesting.

Here are some:

No Mets pitcher has ever won 200 games as a Met, sadly...Tommy Seaver got up to 198 Mets wins, but fell just 2 wins short.

He also had the best pitcher WAR (76) and ERA (2.57), but that wasn't good enough to make his .615 Mets' win % the tops - Gooden was tops at .649 (Dwight enjoyed having excellent hitters), and surprisingly, Rick Reed's .621 beat out Tom Terrific, too.   Support would have helped Tom - in his rookie year alone, he lost 7 starts in which the Mets scored a total of 4 runs. 

Heck, but in games in his career that he won, he was 311-0, 1.61 ERA, so there!  Surprisingly, in the 205 career games he lost, his ERA was 4.94, higher than I would have expected.

Some might argue that Jake is the Mets' best all time pitcher, or second to Seaver, but his career win % does not put him in the Mets' top 10 in that regard, thanks mostly to dismal run support, which Seaver also experienced a lot of.

Lowest hits per 9 innings?  Nolan Ryan at 6.512 per 9....TRADE HIM!

Bases on balls per 9 innings?  A real close one...Bartolo Colon was at 1.31, Saberhagen was at 1.32.

John Franco was in 695 Mets' games.  Tied for 10th in games by a hurler?  Dwight Gooden, and much to my surprise, Aaron Heilman, with 305 apiece.

As you can see on the website posted below, Seaver owns about 20 Mets career records....including HRs allowed (212), hits (2,431), and walks (847).  I'm sure many fans wished those totals were much higher - due to never trading the Franchise away from the franchise in the first place.

Al Leiter led the Mets in 63 HBP, despite only being 7th in innings at 1,360.  Seaver by comparison  hit 52 in 3,046 Mets innings.  

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYM/leaders_pitch.shtml

(This site shows the top 10 Mets in each of many categories).

Also, while David Wright led the Mets in many career categories, John Olerud was first in batting average (.315) and OBP (.425) and OPS (on base plus slugging) at .926. Of course, I should note after one rookie season, Pete Alonsohas an OPS of .941.

Surprising to me was # 2 in OBP - low power Dave Magadan at .391, edging out Keith Hernandez (.387).  How unusual that the top 3 Mets in OBP primarily were first basemen.

Of course, Jeff McNeil is a career best .321 hitter.  Just not enough ABs to qualify on their list yet.

Carlos Beltran stole bases at an 86.21% rate as a Met, impressive.  Stealing signs?  Not so impressive.

And one record that Pete Alonso has his sights set on....ABs per HR - Dave Kingman logged in at 15.3 ABs per HR.  Pete is at 11.2 ABs per HR after one mammoth season.

Darryl had 252 Mets HRs - shockingly, Derek Jeter, not thought of as a power hitter, had more as a Yankee - 260 dingers - than the Mets' all time leader.

John from Albany will be happy to know Edgardo Alfonso is 10th in all time Mets HRs - sadly that total is just 120 in his 8 Mets' seasons, a low figure on a top 10 list.

Statistically, 46% of Mets fans could give a hoot about all of the above - but to you 54% out there, hope you enjoyed this article.  To the other 4%, there is a 90% probability, you'll like 80% of my articles.