1978 NEW YORK METS

| Level: MLB

Location: Queens,NY
Team Record: 66-96 .407
Result: 6th in National League - East Division
Manager(s): Joe Torre
General Manager: Joe McDonald
Stadium: Shea Stadium
Attendance: 1,007,328
Playoffs: Did not qualify

New York Mets affiliate history

Oldest Player: Jerry Koosman (34)
Youngest Player: Alex Trevino (20)
Longest Tenure: Ed Kranepool (17)
Top Hitter: Willie Montanez (23)
Top Pitcher: Craig Swan (15)
Top Draft Pick: Hubie Brooks (#3)

Roster Continuity: 61.23%

National League Standings

East	W	L	Pct	GB
Philadelphia	90	72	.556	--
Pittsburgh	88	73	.547	1.5
Chi Cubs	79	83	.488	11.0
Montreal	76	86	.469	14.0
St. Louis	69	93	.426	21.0
NY Mets	66	96	.407	24.0

BATTING STATISTICS

Basic Stats

Advanced Stats

Extra

Batting Orders

Defensive Lineups

Feats

Splits Analysis

#	Player	Pos	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	PA	OUT	RC	RC/G	babip
25	Willie Montanez	1b-of	23	30	UDFA: 1965	MLB	159	609	66	156	32	0	17	96	9	4	60	92	1	19	0	9	13	.256	.320	.392	712	239	679	479	82	4.6	.273
5	Steve Henderson	of	43	25	1974-5-119	MLB	157	587	83	156	30	9	10	65	13	7	60	109	2	3	0	5	24	.266	.333	.399	732	234	654	467	78	4.5	.309
16	Lee Mazzilli	of-1b	63	23	1973-1-14	MLB	148	542	78	148	28	5	16	61	20	13	69	82	1	6	2	5	7	.273	.353	.432	785	234	619	421	91	5.8	.294
23	Doug Flynn	2b-ss	66	27	UDFA: 1971	MLB	156	532	37	126	12	8	0	36	3	5	30	50	1	10	6	3	14	.237	.277	.289	567	154	572	434	41	2.6	.260
12	John Stearns	c	40	26	1973-1-2	MLB	143	477	65	126	24	1	15	73	25	13	70	57	8	4	2	6	11	.264	.364	.413	777	197	563	383	81	5.7	.270
11	Len Randle	3b-2b	57	29	1970-1-10	MLB	132	437	53	102	16	8	2	35	14	11	64	57	1	7	2	4	7	.233	.330	.320	650	140	508	359	52	3.9	.262
19	Tim Foli	ss	77	27	1968-1-1	MLB	113	413	37	106	21	1	1	27	2	5	14	30	2	1	12	2	10	.257	.283	.320	603	132	443	336	39	3.1	.273
21	Elliott Maddox	of-3b	83	30	1968-1-20	MLB	119	389	43	100	18	2	2	39	2	11	71	38	2	1	2	5	8	.257	.370	.329	699	128	469	315	55	4.7	.277
18	Joel Youngblood	of-3b	69	26	1970-2-40	MLB	113	266	40	67	12	8	7	30	4	0	16	39	1	1	1	3	4	.252	.294	.436	730	116	287	207	39	5.1	.269
4	Bruce Boisclair	of	-	25	1970-20-479	MLB	107	214	24	48	7	1	4	15	3	3	23	43	0	3	2	5	4	.224	.293	.322	616	69	244	180	20	3.0	.256
1	Bobby Valentine	ss-of	-	28	1968-1-5	MLB	69	160	17	43	7	0	1	18	1	1	19	18	1	1	6	2	7	.269	.346	.331	677	53	188	133	19	4.0	.294
42	Ron Hodges	c	-	29	1972-2-47	MLB	47	102	4	26	4	1	0	7	1	2	10	11	1	0	0	2	4	.255	.322	.314	635	32	115	84	10	3.4	.280
2	Tom Grieve	of	-	30	1966-1-6	MLB	54	101	5	21	3	0	2	8	0	1	9	23	0	0	0	0	3	.208	.273	.297	570	30	110	84	6	2.0	.250
7	Ed Kranepool	1b	-	33	UDFA: 1962	MLB	66	81	7	17	2	0	3	19	0	0	8	12	1	2	0	3	4	.210	.280	.346	625	28	93	71	8	2.9	.203
36	Jerry Koosman	p	-	34	UDFA: 1964	MLB	38	70	1	6	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	27	0	0	5	0	0	.086	.086	.129	214	9	75	69	-5	-1.8	.140
39	Nino Espinosa	p	-	24	UDFA: 1971	MLB	32	67	6	14	3	0	0	4	0	0	1	28	0	0	7	0	0	.209	.221	.254	474	17	75	60	1	0.6	.359
27	Craig Swan	p	-	27	1972-3-61	MLB	29	65	2	10	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	15	0	0	8	0	1	.154	.191	.154	345	10	76	64	-1	-0.3	.200
33	Dan Norman	of	-	23	1974-15-357	MLB	19	64	7	17	0	1	4	10	1	0	2	14	0	0	0	1	0	.266	.284	.484	768	31	67	48	9	5.3	.277
40	Pat Zachry	p	-	26	1970-19-447	MLB	21	43	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	19	0	0	5	0	2	.070	.149	.070	219	3	52	47	-4	-2.1	.125
26	Mike Bruhert	p	-	27	UDFA: 1978	MLB	27	40	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	21	0	0	1	0	0	.075	.075	.075	150	3	41	38	-4	-3.1	.158
3	Sergio Ferrer	ss-2b	-	27	UDFA: 1978	MLB	37	33	8	7	0	1	0	1	1	0	4	7	1	0	2	0	2	.212	.316	.273	589	9	40	30	3	2.3	.269
17	Gil Flores	of	-	25	UDFA: 1978	MLB	11	29	8	8	0	1	0	1	1	0	3	5	0	0	1	0	0	.276	.344	.345	689	10	33	22	4	4.9	.333
49	Kevin Kobel	p	-	24	1971-11-241	MLB	32	25	3	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	8	0	0	4	0	0	.160	.192	.200	392	5	30	25	0	0.2	.235
10	Ken Henderson	of	-	32	1967-42-759	MLB	7	22	2	5	2	0	1	4	0	1	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	.227	.346	.455	801	10	26	18	4	5.5	.235
32	Tom Hausman	p	-	25	1971-10-217	MLB	10	17	1	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	5	0	0	1	0	0	.176	.222	.235	458	4	19	15	1	1.0	.250
29	Alex Trevino	c	-	20	UDFA: 1974	MLB	6	12	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.308	.250	558	3	13	10	1	1.5	.300
38	Skip Lockwood	p	-	31	UDFA: 1966	MLB	57	11	1	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	5	0	0	2	0	0	.182	.182	.545	727	6	13	11	1	3.1	.200
22	Dale Murray	p	-	28	1970-18-411	MLB	53	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.125	.000	125	0	8	7	-1	-3.2	.000
28	Dwight Bernard	p	-	26	1974-2-41	MLB	30	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	.200	.333	.200	533	1	6	4	0	1.7	.333
15	Butch Benton	c	-	20	1975-1-6	MLB	4	4	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.600	.500	1100	2	5	2	1	18.2	.500
31	Roy Lee Jackson	p	-	24	1972-12-273	MLB	4	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.667	.667	.667	1333	2	3	1	1	30.6	.667
43	Juan Berenguer	p	-	23	UDFA: 1975	MLB	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	3	3	-	-	.000
44	Bob Myrick	p	-	25	1974-20-459	MLB	17	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	2	2	-	-	.000
43	Paul Siebert	p	-	25	1971-3-58	MLB	27	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	1	-	-	.000
Totals: (34 players)							162	5433	607	1332	227	47	86	561	100	77	549	829	24	59	71	55	126	.245	.314	.352	666	1911	6132	4430	631	3.8	.272

PITCHING STATISTICS

Basic Stats

Advanced Stats

Extra

Starting Pitcher Log

Feats

Splits Analysis

Draft Picks

#	Player	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SH	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	Bk	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	BB/SO	BABIP	GB/FB
36	Jerry Koosman	27	34	UDFA: 1964	MLB	3	15	3.75	38	32	3	0	6	2	235.1	221	110	98	17	84	160	5	1	1.30	8.45	0.65	3.21	6.12	0.53	.296	1.13
27	Craig Swan	15	27	1972-3-61	MLB	9	6	2.43	29	28	5	1	0	0	207.1	164	62	56	12	58	125	1	0	1.07	7.12	0.52	2.52	5.43	0.46	.248	0.74
39	Nino Espinosa	43	24	UDFA: 1971	MLB	11	15	4.73	32	32	6	1	0	0	203.2	230	117	107	24	75	76	0	3	1.50	10.16	1.06	3.31	3.36	0.99	.299	0.89
40	Pat Zachry	-	26	1970-19-447	MLB	10	6	3.33	21	21	5	2	0	0	138.0	120	57	51	9	60	78	3	2	1.30	7.83	0.59	3.91	5.09	0.77	.264	0.77
26	Mike Bruhert	-	27	UDFA: 1978	MLB	4	11	4.78	27	22	1	1	1	0	133.2	171	83	71	6	34	56	10	2	1.53	11.51	0.40	2.29	3.77	0.61	.346	1.86
49	Kevin Kobel	-	24	1971-11-241	MLB	5	6	2.91	32	11	1	0	12	0	108.1	95	42	35	9	30	51	1	0	1.15	7.89	0.75	2.49	4.24	0.59	.254	0.84
38	Skip Lockwood	41	31	UDFA: 1966	MLB	7	13	3.57	57	0	0	0	40	15	90.2	78	36	36	10	31	73	3	1	1.20	7.74	0.99	3.08	7.25	0.42	.275	0.49
22	Dale Murray	42	28	1970-18-411	MLB	8	5	3.65	53	0	0	0	38	5	86.1	85	39	35	4	36	37	5	1	1.40	8.86	0.42	3.75	3.86	0.97	.292	1.81
32	Tom Hausman	-	25	1971-10-217	MLB	3	3	4.70	10	10	0	0	0	0	51.2	58	28	27	6	9	16	0	2	1.30	10.10	1.05	1.57	2.79	0.56	.289	1.04
28	Dwight Bernard	-	26	1974-2-41	MLB	1	4	4.31	30	1	0	0	10	0	48.0	54	25	23	4	27	26	2	0	1.69	10.13	0.75	5.06	4.88	1.04	.329	0.96
45	Butch Metzger	-	26	1970-2-41	MLB	1	3	6.51	25	0	0	0	11	0	37.1	48	28	27	4	22	21	0	1	1.88	11.57	0.96	5.30	5.06	1.05	.358	0.60
47	Mardie Cornejo	-	26	1973-21-493	MLB	4	2	2.45	25	0	0	0	10	3	36.2	37	12	10	1	14	17	1	1	1.39	9.08	0.25	3.44	4.17	0.82	.321	1.56
43	Paul Siebert	-	25	1971-3-58	MLB	0	2	5.14	27	0	0	0	5	1	28.0	30	16	16	2	21	12	2	1	1.82	9.64	0.64	6.75	3.86	1.75	.304	0.61
44	Bob Myrick	-	25	1974-20-459	MLB	0	3	3.28	17	0	0	0	7	0	24.2	18	10	9	3	13	13	0	0	1.26	6.57	1.09	4.74	4.74	1.00	.211	1.68
43	Juan Berenguer	-	23	UDFA: 1975	MLB	0	2	8.31	5	3	0	0	1	0	13.0	17	12	12	1	11	8	0	0	2.15	11.77	0.69	7.62	5.54	1.38	.372	0.52
31	Roy Lee Jackson	-	24	1972-12-273	MLB	0	0	9.24	4	2	0	0	0	0	12.2	21	13	13	2	6	6	0	0	2.13	14.92	1.42	4.26	4.26	1.00	.463	1.23
Totals: (34 players)						66	96	3.87	162	162	21	5	141	26	1,455	1447	690	626	86	531	775	33	15	1.29	8.95	0.70	3.28	4.79	0.69	.296

FIELDING STATISTICS

Stats by Position

Games by Position

Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
John Stearns	C	141		711	84	12	7	.985	0.00
Ron Hodges	C	30		145	20	3	5	.982	0.00
Alex Trevino	C	5		12	3	0	0	1.000	0.00
Butch Benton	C	1		4	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Willie Montanez	1B	158		1350	104	8	138	.995	0.00
Ed Kranepool	1B	3		27	4	0	3	1.000	0.00
Tom Grieve	1B	2		9	2	0	1	1.000	0.00
Bruce Boisclair	1B	1		1	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Elliott Maddox	1B	1		1	0	1	0	.500	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Doug Flynn	2B	128		249	299	8	70	.986	0.00
Bobby Valentine	2B	45		76	92	4	13	.977	0.00
Joel Youngblood	2B	39		67	72	3	19	.979	0.00
Len Randle	2B	5		3	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Sergio Ferrer	2B	3		4	4	0	2	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Len Randle	3B	124		108	215	11	21	.967	0.00
Elliott Maddox	3B	43		40	72	6	5	.949	0.00
Bobby Valentine	3B	9		2	17	2	0	.905	0.00
Joel Youngblood	3B	9		5	16	2	1	.913	0.00
Sergio Ferrer	3B	2		1	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
John Stearns	3B	1		0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Alex Trevino	3B	1		0	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Tim Foli	SS	112		190	314	18	78	.966	0.00
Doug Flynn	SS	60		83	127	7	21	.968	0.00
Sergio Ferrer	SS	29		22	44	2	7	.971	0.00
Joel Youngblood	SS	1		2	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Steve Henderson	OF	155		315	18	11	3	.968	0.00
Lee Mazzilli	OF	144		386	8	5	3	.987	0.00
Elliott Maddox	OF	79		155	8	2	3	.988	0.00
Bruce Boisclair	OF	69		114	3	2	0	.983	0.00
Joel Youngblood	OF	50		86	8	1	1	.989	0.00
Tom Grieve	OF	26		43	3	1	0	.979	0.00
Dan Norman	OF	18		33	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
Ed Kranepool	OF	12		9	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Gil Flores	OF	8		17	0	1	0	.944	0.00
Ken Henderson	OF	7		15	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Skip Lockwood	P	57	90	4	5	1	1	.900	0.90
Dale Murray	P	53	86	6	22	1	1	.966	2.93
Jerry Koosman	P	38	235	4	48	6	4	.897	1.99
Nino Espinosa	P	32	203	10	47	1	2	.983	2.52
Kevin Kobel	P	32	108	4	16	2	1	.909	1.67
Dwight Bernard	P	30	48	2	7	0	2	1.000	1.69
Craig Swan	P	29	207	17	30	2	5	.959	2.04
Mike Bruhert	P	27	133	11	22	5	1	.868	2.23
Paul Siebert	P	27	28	3	5	0	0	1.000	2.57
Mardie Cornejo	P	25	36	2	4	0	0	1.000	1.49
Butch Metzger	P	25	37	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.21
Pat Zachry	P	21	138	9	24	2	4	.943	2.15
Bob Myrick	P	17	24	1	5	0	1	1.000	2.23
Tom Hausman	P	10	51	6	8	1	0	.933	2.46
Juan Berenguer	P	5	13	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.38
Roy Lee Jackson	P	4	12	1	4	1	1	.833	3.69

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