The
New York Mets Hall of Heroes
Qualifications
The first avenue to achieve
enshrinement in the New York Mets Hall of Heroes
is to be a member of one of the single-season All-Decade Teams chosen by
Rounding Third,
and added to by Linear Weights calculations.
The qualifying All-Decade Teams, of course, only extend through the 2010s,
since I will probably not outlive the new decade.
Players are listed who qualified
either via the original Rounding Third calculation,
or the subsequent Linear Weights re-evaluation.
Those whose names are in bold print qualified for the All-Decade Team
using the combination of both calculations,
the sum of the re-indexed R3 calculation combined with the LW figure,
which are listed as HoY/PoY.
Beginning with the decade of the
2010s, separate information
for R3 and LW is no longer recorded.
The 1880s New York Metropolitans
appear beneath the modern lists.
See the notes at the bottom of the page for information about the calculations.
Player |
R3 |
LW |
HoY |
Tommie Agee, 1969 |
404.38 |
20.67 |
61.11 |
Pitcher |
R3 |
LW |
PoY |
Larry Bearnarth,
1963 |
2.15 |
-1.82 |
28.95 |
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Player |
R3 |
LW |
HoY |
Tommie Agee, 1970 |
407.84 |
26.21 |
66.99 |
Pitcher |
R3 |
LW |
PoY |
Neil Allen, 1979 |
2.46 |
2.03 |
26.28 |
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Player |
R3 |
LW |
HoY |
Wally Backman, 1984 |
344.29 |
9.01 |
43.44 |
Pitcher |
R3 |
LW |
PoY |
Neil Allen, 1981 |
1.96 |
3.85 |
33.98 |
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Player |
R3 |
LW |
HoY |
Edgardo Alfonzo, 1999 |
447.64 |
48.27 |
93.03 |
Pitcher |
R3 |
LW |
PoY |
Armando Benitez, 1999 |
2.06 |
23.52 |
55.83 |
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Player |
R3 |
LW |
HoY |
Benny Agbayani, 2000 |
358.11 |
24.02 |
59.83 |
Pitcher |
R3 |
LW |
PoY |
Kevin Appier,
2001 |
1.57 |
18.12 |
56.15 |
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Player |
HoY |
Pete Alonso, 2019 |
99.50 |
Pitcher |
PoY |
Jacob deGrom, 2018 |
101.02 |
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All-Decade Team, 1880s |
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Player |
R3 |
LW |
HoY |
Steve Brady, 1885 |
238.82 |
3.70 |
27.58 |
All-Decade Staff, 1880s |
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Pitcher |
R3 |
LW |
PoY |
Ed Cushman, 1885 |
1.37 |
9.76 |
64.87 |
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Notes
on the calculations used: 1. The Rounding Third calculation for
batters compares teammates within the same team for relative value to the
club, and places an emphasis on being a starting player. The formula is
essentially (OBP+SLG)*(team games*3.1) for batters who achieved at least
(team games*3.1) plate appearances. For players who did not reach (team
games*3.1) plate appearances, the formula is (OBP+SLG)*(plate appearances). 2. The Linear Weights calculation for
batters compares players' performances against established values which would
apply to any player on any team, and recognizes quality of performance
without regard to "qualification" as a starter. Therefore, if all
of a team's starters are uniformly bad, a good season by a part-time player
could identify him as the "best" player on a team. The formula I
used to calculate Linear Weights is slightly modified from the official version,
which was more complicated than I could easily calculate. It is
(.47)1B+(.78)2B+(1.09)3B+(1.4)HR+(.33)(BB+HBP)+(.3)SB-(.6)CS-(.25)(AB-H). 3. The Rounding Third calculation for
pitchers is so convoluted that I'm not even going to bother printing it here,
but suffice it to say that, like its companion measurement for hitters, it
tends to favor starting pitchers over relievers, in particular due to the
number of innings pitched. Unlike Linear Weights, however, there is no
possibility of a negative score, so if a pitcher racks up a batch of innings
with any degree of success at all, he's got a shot. What may be most
surprising about the Rounding Third calculation for pitchers is the degree of
agreement between that and Linear Weights, at least when it comes to naming the
"best" for any given year. 4. The Linear Weights calculation for pitchers, which again compares performances against values which would apply to any pitcher throughout history, is quite simple: IP*(league ERA/9)-ER. |