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ALBERT PEHANICK Share your memories of Albert Pehanick
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Alex
April 18, 2024
Al Pehanick spent 11 seasons in the minor leagues, including 5 full years at Triple-A (and part of a sixth there). He won over 100 games, including 15+ three times and as many as 17 in a season.

Yet he never earned a shot at the big leagues!

He played for the Mets Triple-A club, the Buffalo Bisons, in his final campaign, 1964.

One thing he couldn't do was hit well—his batting record is incomplete, but available records have him hitting .055 with 316 Ks in 513 at-bats.

Unfortunately, Pehanick died October 28, 2022 at 87 years old.

LOWELL PALMER Share your memories of Lowell Palmer
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Flitgun Frankie
April 17, 2024
Lowell Palmer is well known in baseball card circles for his 1970 Topps card, where he’s sporting wrap-around sun glasses. Not flip-down baseball sun glasses, but regular dark glasses like you’d wear at the beach. He’s wearing them on his ‘71 card too. He’s in a Phillies uniform on both cards, but the pictures were taken at Shea Stadium. I don’t know of another player who wore anything like those glasses on a baseball card, so Palmer became something of a Cult baseball player.

We kids used to speculate on whether he was:

1. Blind 2. A secret agent Or 3. A private detective.

On his 1972 card he ditched the shades for less cool tinted glasses and that was his last appearance on a Topps card. I never knew he ended up with the Mets.

JACK TRACY Share your memories of Jack Tracy
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Ira Berman
April 11, 2024
Fortunate to have had him coach me in my junior and senior years in high school. Named me captain in my senior year and gave me the opportunity and taught me all about leadership, as well as teaching me his extensive skills as a middle infielder. Most important he played with an edge that I liked and adopted for the rest of my athletics that I have played since then. I am sure based upon the fact that he was an International League All-Star that the New York Mets would’ve won the 1969 World Series with him at either shortstop or second base…… stay strong…

DEOLIS GUERRA Share your memories of Deolis Guerra
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Alex
April 9, 2024
Whodathunk that of the three pitchers New York shipped away to receive Johan Santana, Guerra would end up being the best and lasting the longest?

Granted, he wasn't great, posting a career 4.54 ERA and 91 ERA+ as a reliever, but he had a 3.21 ERA in 44 games for the Angels in 2016 and a 4.11 mark with a solid 1.112 WHIP in 53 games for the A's in 2021.

By contract, Philip Humber went 16-23 with a 5.31 ERA in his career and was a dud overall, perfect game notwithstanding, and especially so since he was once a third overall pick. The other guy, Kevin Mulvey (himself a second round pick), spent just 10 games in the majors, posting a 7.90 ERA.

And while Humber and Mulvey have long since retired, Guerra is still going. He played in the Venezuelan Winter League in 2023-24 and supposedly he'll be spending 2024 with the Saraperos de Saltillo of the Mexican League.

I'm inspired to write this entry because I'm looking at a Deolis Guerra New Britain Rock Cats team card sitting on my desk.

MARV STAEHLE Share your memories of Marv Staehle
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Alex
April 9, 2024
Marv Staehle spent 13 years in pro ball and logged time in seven MLB seasons, yet his tenure in the Mets organization was just 22 games at Triple-A in 1967. It was an underwhelming stay, as he hit .267.

Unfortunately, Staehle died September 30, 2022 at 80 years old.

DONALD ENGBERS Share your memories of Donald Engbers
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Alex
March 30, 2024
Donald Engbers spent nearly a decade in pro ball. New York was the only organization that gave him a fair shot at Triple-A, and he did well, hitting .291 in 103 ABs at Tidewater.

He also used to post on UltimateMets.com from time to time, with entries on the Fan Memories pages of Larry Bearnarth, Warren Spahn, Ken Boyer, Don Hahn, Jose Cardenal and others.

Unfortunately, he died February 8, 2014 at 70 years old.

JAYCE BOYD Share your memories of Jayce Boyd
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Alex
March 27, 2024
Oh Jayce, what could have been! He played his first full season at Triple-A in 2017, hitting .297/.371/.512 with 11 homers and 46 RBI, and though he was still just 26, the Mets cut him loose anyway. Considering some of the dogs the team has stocked their Triple-A club with, it's amazing they didn't keep Boyd around, especially considering he was a fairly well-regarded prospect. Who knows what he could've done in the majors.

DOMINGO TAPIA Share your memories of Domingo Tapia
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Alex
March 27, 2024
Tapia made his way onto some Mets top prospect lists in the mid-2010s but never actually played for them, as New York released him in 2016. He's not had a huge impact in the majors, but in his first two (albeit stunted) seasons, 2020 and 2021, he had a combined ERA of 2.61 and an ERA+ of 179. Looks like New York lost out on a potentially decent piece.

JOE SUOZZI Share your memories of Joe Suozzi
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Karen Serani
March 13, 2024
Joseph attended Landing Elementary School, in Glen Cove, NY and I was his Physical Education and Health Teacher. Joseph spoke of his dream of playing MLB baseball, as young 8, 9, and 10 year old, drawing photos of himself as a Professional MLB Player. I enjoyed watching his passion and effort to improve and hone his skills, and the vision he had for himself, overcoming challenge after challenge. He is where he dreamed he’d be as a young school-aged boy, and it was a vision he strove to achieve all his life. I’m so proud of his determination and accomplishments! #GoJoe #BelieveInYourDreams #BecomeYourDream.

PRESTON ALDRIDGE Share your memories of Preston Aldridge
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Alex
March 4, 2024
Preston Aldridge was a strikeout specialist before they all were, averaging a K per frame in his final pro season in 1963 and more than a strikeout per inning in his penultimate campaign—and he tossed more than 100 innings in each of those seasons, so he had a good sample size.

Unfortunately, though his teammate with the Auburn Mets Cleon Jones eventually because a New York legend, Aldridge never advanced beyond A ball.

Also unfortunately, Aldridge died December 8, 2023 at the age of 84.

RICHARD BAZINET Share your memories of Richard Bazinet
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Alex
March 4, 2024
Richard Bazinet was as veritable slugger, walloping at least 120 home runs in his professional career, including totals of 27, 17 and 26 in his three years in the Mets chain, respectively.

A 17-year-old when he began his time in the pros in 1954, he was in his mid-20s when he joined the Mets system, where he wrapped up his career. He had some great seasons there, but was playing against competition that was half a decade younger than he was, on average, so the Mets didn't give him much of a look.

He played with the Auburn Mets from 1962 to 1964 and called one future Mets legend a teammate each season—in 1962, it was Ed Kranepool, in 1963, it was Cleon Jones and in 1964, it was Tug McGraw.

Unfortunately, Bazinet died December 1, 2014 at 78 years old.








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