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Benny Agbayani
Ultimate Mets Database popularity ranking: 64 of 1218 players
Agbayani
Benny Peter Agbayani
Born: December 28, 1971 at Honolulu, Hawaii
Throws: Right Bats: Right
Height: 6.00 Weight: 225

Benny Agbayani was the most popular Ultimate Mets Database daily lookup on June 14, 2009, May 21, 2010, February 24, 2011, May 18, 2011, July 3, 2016, and December 31, 2018.

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First Mets game: June 17, 1998
Last Mets game: September 1, 2001

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Bernard Aguinaldo
First player of Filipino ancestry to play in the major leagues. Wears number 50 to honor his home state - Hawaii.

Mr. Sparkle
Considering the completely mediocre minor league career this guy has had, it's amazing that he has turned into a total clutch hitter and quite invaluable piece of the team. He's the type of player you gotta love, no fanfare coming in but has produced very steady numbers and has been amazingly clutch.

Coach HoJo 20
December 25, 2000
Benny is the Man!!!!!!!

Thank God Benny was able to take his Hawaiian Hammer to the Orient and Pearl Bomb the Cubs with a mighty Home Run to beat the Cubs and to keep his spot on the Mets

Some one in the Mets organization is trying to get rid of Benny hopefully it wont happen because this guy is a Prime Time Player and should be allowed to bring the Mets to future World Championships

Come on guys lets sing it together..... "BBBB BENNY AND THE METS"

Won Doney
March 16, 2001
They need to play Benny more in 2001. All of the non- Mets fans and those fake Mets fans all overlook the potential of both Benny and Jay Payton. I think that soon enough, they'll both be All-Stars. Benny is one of my favorite players right now.

Just wait. In five years, they'll trade Benny for another Jim Fregosi or Juan Samuel.

EG
March 18, 2001
Anyone notice how good an eye this guy has? You get the feeling that the Mets organization will never be comfortable saying he's the LF. I think this has proven that he can play.

I like players who have proven that they can perform in Post-Season. Big hits in both years.

He may not be Barry Bonds, but I think Bonds would envy his October success. Then again, being such a jerk, Bonds probably wouldn't be smart enough to.

ROSA A.K.A.(MAMITA)
April 9, 2001
All I have to say is I love his butt!

Jim Alderson
April 9, 2001
I was at the 13-inning game against the Giants and I will never forget the way the bleachers shook and swayed when Benny hit that game-winning blast and thousands of fans who were freezing their tuckuses off, started jumping up and down. Benny touches home and the Mets carried him off the field.

Shannon
October 20, 2001
Nice guy like a lot of Mets. Got his autograph several times. I know this might sound silly, but what I remember most about Benny is his smile.

Anthony Pesca
December 18, 2001
Benny is a great guy, but all of you "we want good guys on our team" get over him. He's simply not a good ballplayer. Of the "5 tools", which one does he bring to the table? Everyone complains about how the Mets don't put a team together that can win the Series but are up in arms when they want to get rid of a player who is a terrible outfielder with no kind of arm, has no speed, no power, and can't hit for average. Hold on...I've changed my mind let's bat Benny cleanup(sorry Mr. Piazza) and be a solid 3rd or 4th place team. Maybe all of us "we want good guys on our team" can get a tenative date for Benny Agbayani day when he gets his #50 retired and is enshrined in the Mets Hall of Fame. "I'm a great guy, I'll smile and talk to fans and sign autographs. Maybe I can toss a few innings out of the pen next season?"

Mr. Sparkle
January 19, 2002
When Benny was first called up in 1998 it was the first major league game he ever attended in his life. Considering he's from Hawaii I guess that's not so unusual but still, how many guys can say that?

Benny was good in 99 and 2000 but not so hot last year. He's best off as a 4th outfielder.

Joe Beyrer
February 14, 2002
Good hustle and always a smile .... you could tell he loved the game... wrote to him and he sent very good responses and 2 pictures because I told him my wife was one of his biggest fans.

Larry Burns
June 10, 2002
Here is a shining example that you cannot judge a book by its cover. Benny looked like he was Jack Lord's Lieutenant on Hawaii 5-0. (The one who was sent to Krispy Kreme for the pickup). When he first arrived I was wondering where the heck they found this guy. All he did was prove my initial observations wrong. He consistently got big hits, I loved when they played Bennie and the Jets at Shea. He was a typical Bobby V player---good work ethic and an overachiever! Now, once I become a huge fan, we let him go to Colorado? Why do we do things like this?

Shari
June 16, 2002
I never cared for Benny as a player. I always wanted him to do well, but he never materialized into anything. He was another Butch Huskey-a big guy who hit under 20 home runs in a season. He also made a lot of stupid plays in the outfield. I'll never forget when Benny was in left field and he thought there were 3 outs. He gave the ball to a kid in the stands as guys are flying around the bases. He grabbed the ball back from the poor kid and threw it to the cut off man a couple of runs too late. I'll never forget the look on that poor little boy's face. He played left field as well as Jay Payton runs the bases, and his offense was mediocre at best, I always rooted for him, but he always ended up disappointing me.

NL
December 16, 2002
I thought Benny did a really fine job for the Mets, especially as a clutch hitter. Sure, he'd turn fly balls into adventures from time to time, but when the game was on the line, Benny always seemed to put real good wood on the ball. They gave up on him, but I miss him as a player. And he hasn't been replaced out there.

Jonah Falcon
March 14, 2003
He was the main reason the Mets won Game 3 of the 2000 World Series.

Jim Snedeker
September 10, 2003
So what's going on--is Benny out of baseball for good? Hard to believe it, such a gutsy hustler who made the most out of the talent he had. Reminded me of Backman and Dykstra. And he sure had heart. I remember him predicting that the Mets would beat the Yanks in the World Series in five games. Too bad it turned out the other way around. He'll always be one of my favorite Mets.

Won Doney
October 15, 2004
They were always trying to make him into a leadoff hitter. That really wasn't the right place for him, especially considering that he inherited the job from Rickey Henderson.

Anthony
January 26, 2005
My family always said how he looks like my best friend since kindergarten; he is Thai. He does look like him too. Benny is one of my favorites. I was at game three of the 2000 NLDS sitting in the upper deck with my best Mets fan friend when he hit the game winning home run. He also was one of the players who signed the birthday card my dad arranged to get me for my 19th birthday during the summer of 2001. He may have only been a solid platoon player whose only tools were average and power, but he was pretty good when it counted.

DavidC
May 5, 2005
Benny is playing for the high-flying Chiba Lotte Marines (entering winning 12 straight as of this writing), managed by Bobby V and playing with Matt Franco, entering his second year here.

Benny is a very popular player here, giving clutch hits and smiles to the fans, so popular that Chiba Lotte decided to sell a lunch box named after him in the home stadium - "Benny's LocoMoco Lunch Box" - a traditional Hawaiian meal, starting on May 3rd. On its cardbox cover, you can see Benny with traditional Hawaiian wardrobe.

Steve
July 16, 2005
I will never forget coming out of the movie theater the night of Game 3 of the Division Series against the Giants, and then immediately after starting the car and turning the radio on, Benny Agbayani hits his home run. That was a classic Mets moment for me.

Another Agbayani memory is when he hit a grand slam in Japan and was presented with a samurai helmet.

Shari
July 18, 2005
My funniest memory of Benny was him catching a ball in left field for the second out but he thought it was the third out. He gives the ball to a little kid in the stands. As runners are flying around the bases, Benny realizes this and rips the ball out of the shocked little kid's hands and throws it back in. I will never forget the look on his face or that kid's. Too bad I can't remember who they were playing at the time, although it was completely irrelevent.

Bonbolito
December 21, 2005
I remember being at the at the game the Mets beat the Cards for ther pennant in 2000. Left field loge last section. At the last out Benny went in for the pileup then he came back to be with us for a moment. I could see his face and shared the his excitement and gratitude. I think it said a lot about the kind of guy he was and his understanding not only of what that moment meant to him as a player going to to the World Series but also what it meant to us as Met fans.

Lee
March 22, 2006
Benny Agbayani is one of my favorite players ever to grace a Mets uniform. I saw him come in 99 and hit 10 homers in 50 at-bats and I knew this guy was good, even though I had never heard of him. Then he hits that home run in Game 3 of the 2000 NLDS and that was just incredible. But now he's gone, down to Japan in a league under Bobby V. (I think) Good luck Benny

VIBaseball
October 29, 2010
Benny is now back at home in Hawaii. His pro career ended after the 2009 season, when the Chiba Lotte Marines parted ways with Bobby V (always Benny's #1 supporter).

Count me among those who loved Benny and his three outstanding moments: the grand slam at the Tokyo Dome, the game-ender in the 2000 NLCS off Aaron Fultz, and the game-winning double off El Duque in the Subway Series.








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