Mets All Homegrown Team
By Mike Silva ~ November 30th, 2009. Filed under: Mike Silva.
Did you ever wonder what a fully homegrown Mets team would look like? Well here is our chance. I went to Baseball Reference and sorted all the active players that were drafted by the Mets and put together a team. For purposes of rounding out the lineup I made international signings part of the mix as well. Here is what I came up with as the “All Homegrown” New York Mets.
Update: Reader SchmidtXTC correctly pointed out that I left Nelson Cruz and Jesus Flores off the team.
Lineup
C- Josh Thole
1B- Daniel Murphy
2b- Ty Wigginton
3b – David Wright
SS – Jose Reyes
LF – Lastings Milledge
CF- Angel Pagan
RF – Nelson Cruz
Bench (Only Could Fill Two Spots)
Mike Carp
Mike Jacobs
Jesus Flores
Nick Evans
Starting Rotation
Scott Kazmir
Brian Bannister
A.J. Burnett
Mike Pelfrey
Jonathan Niese
Relievers
Bobby Parnell
Joe Smith
Billy Traber
Matt Lindstrom
Aaron Heilman
Minor Leagues
Kevin Mulvey
Nelson Figueroa
Tobi Stoner
Yusmeiro Petit
Bobby Keppel
Lenny DiNardo
Eddie Kunz
Tyler Walker
Jason Isringhausen (DL)
Carlos Muniz
Philip Humber
Neal Musser
Ones that got Away
Did you know the Mets drafted, but did not sign, Darin Erstad, Mark Grudzielanek, Aaron Rowand, David DeJesus, Jeremy Guthrie, Garrett Atkins, and Scott Proctor?
November 30th, 2009 at 9:12 am
This is horrible. I can’t believe that this is the best we could do!
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:58 am
Nelson Cruz in Right? Jason Bay in Left? Jesus Flores Catching? How about Carlos Gomez? Melvin Mora? Octavio Dotel? Heath Bell? Take some time and do a decent job…the team could look alot better.
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:52 am
SchmidtXC
I flat out left off Flores and Cruz – I will add them and cite the pick up. Don’t know what I was thinking leaving off Flores.
As for Bay, he is not homegrown, he was acquired by Steve Phillips in the Scott Strickland trade from the Expos- Omar dealt him!
Thanks for reading