The 1963 New York Mets
Rounding Third Hitter of the Year Ron Hunt		Rounding Third Pitcher of the Year Carl Willey
51-111, 10th place in National League

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BATTING RECORD (team leaders in red) PLAYER               G   AB   R    H  2B 3B HR RBI   TB SB CS   SO  BB HBP SAC SF  OBP  SLG  AVG ================================================================================================ Jesse Gonder        42  126  12   38   4  0  3  15   51  1  2   25   6   0   0  2 .328 .405 .302 Pumpsie Green       17   54   8   15   1  2  1   5   23  0  2   13  12   0   0  0 .409 .426 .278 Ron Hunt           143  533  64  145  28  4 10  42  211  5  4   50  40  13   8  6 .334 .396 .272 Frank Thomas       126  420  34  109   9  1 15  60  165  0  0   48  33   3   0  2 .317 .393 .260 Sammy Taylor        22   35   3    9   0  1  0   6   11  0  0    7   5   0   0  1 .341 .314 .257 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Duke Snider        129  354  44   86   8  3 14  45  142  0  1   74  56   1   0  4 .345 .401 .243 Chris Cannizzaro    16   33   4    8   1  0  0   4    9  0  0    8   1   0   0  1 .257 .273 .242 Rod Kanehl         109  191  26   46   6  0  1   9   55  6  3   26   5   2   3  0 .268 .288 .241 Dick Smith          20   42   4   10   0  1  0   3   12  3  2   10   5   0   0  0 .319 .286 .238 Duke Carmel         47  149  11   35   5  3  3  18   55  2  2   37  16   0   1  1 .307 .369 .235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Hickman 146  494  53  113  21  6 17  51  197  0  5  120  44   1   3  4 .291 .399 .229 Gil Hodges          11   22   2    5   0  0  0   3    5  0  0    2   3   0   0  0 .320 .227 .227 Joe Hicks           56  159  16   36   6  1  5  22   59  0  2   31   7   3   0  0 .272 .371 .226 Charlie Neal        72  253  26   57  12  1  3  18   80  1  2   49  27   1   1  0 .302 .316 .225 Joe Christopher     64  149  19   33   5  1  1   8   43  1  3   21  13   3   2  1 .295 .289 .221 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Larry Burright      41  100   9   22   2  1  0   3   26  1  0   25   8   2   0  0 .291 .260 .220 Tim Harkness       123  375  35   79  12  3 10  41  127  4  3   79  36   7   0  2 .290 .339 .211 Ed Kranepool        86  273  22   57  12  2  2  14   79  4  2   50  18   0   1  2 .256 .289 .209 Chico Fernandez     58  145  12   29   6  0  1   9   38  3  0   30   9   0   1  2 .244 .262 .200 Jim Piersall        40  124  13   24   4  1  1  10   33  1  2   14  10   0   4  2 .250 .266 .194 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Al Moran           119  331  26   64   5  2  1  23   76  3  7   60  36   1   1  1 .274 .230 .193 Choo Choo Coleman  106  247  22   44   0  0  3   9   53  5  5   49  24   5   1  0 .264 .215 .178 Ted Schreiber       39   50   1    8   0  0  0   2    8  0  1   14   4   1   0  0 .236 .160 .160 Marv Throneberry    14   14   0    2   1  0  0   1    3  0  0    5   1   0   0  0 .200 .214 .143 Cliff Cook          50  106   9   15   2  1  2   8   25  0  1   37  12   0   2  0 .229 .236 .142 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norm Sherry         63  147   6   20   1  0  2  11   27  1  0   26  10   3   0  1 .205 .184 .136 Cleon Jones          6   15   1    2   0  0  0   1    2  0  0    4   0   0   0  0 .133 .133 .133 ================================================================================================ HITTERS TOTALS    1765 4941 482 1111 151 34 95 441 1615 41 49  914 441  46  28 32 .293 .327 .225 PITCHERS TOTALS    407  395  19   57   5  1  1  18   67  0  3  164  16   1  18  3 .178 .170 .144 ================================================================================================ TEAM TOTALS       2172 5336 501 1168 156 35 96 459 1682 41 52 1078 457  47  46 35 .285 .315 .219

OPS+  bWAR HoY =================  110   0.4  10.53  142   0.4   8.02 110 2.5 44.02  104   0.8  34.80   91   0.1   2.62 -----------------  115   1.2  39.40   53   0.3  -0.08   60  -0.8   1.29   76  -0.3   1.51   94   0.8   9.84 -----------------   97   0.2  29.75   61   0.0   0.46   84   0.0   6.09   79   1.2  10.29   69  -1.0   2.87 -----------------   60  -0.1   1.68   81   0.7  17.54   57  -1.5   1.06   46  -1.4  -1.10   49  -1.0  -1.73 -----------------   47  -0.8  -5.67   40  -0.6  -5.99   17   0.1  -3.51   20  -0.2  -0.83   34  -0.6  -3.82 -----------------   13  -0.5  -9.40  -23  -0.2  -1.91 =================

PITCHING RECORD (team leaders in red) PITCHER           G  GS CG     IP  W   L  PCT    H   R  ER  SO  BB ShO SV   ERA =============================================================================== Grover Powell    20   4  1   49.2  1   1 .500   37  23  15  39  32   1  0  2.72 Carl Willey      30  28  7  183.0  9  14 .391  149  74  63 101  69   4  0  3.10 Larry Bearnarth 58   2  0  126.1  3   8 .273  127  61  48  48  47   0  4  3.42 Roger Craig      46  31 14  236.0  5  22 .185  249 117  99 108  58   0  2  3.78 Al Jackson       37  34 11  227.0 13  17 .433  237 128 100 142 84   0  1  3.96 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don Rowe         26   1  0   54.2  0   0 ----   59  27  26  27  21   0  0  4.28 Galen Cisco      51  17  1  155.2  7  15 .318  165  88  75  81  64   0  0  4.34 Tracy Stallard   39  23  5  154.2  6  17 .261  156  89  81 110  77   0  1  4.71 Ken MacKenzie    34   0  0   58.0  3   1 .750   63  35  32  41  12   0  3  4.97 Ed Bauta          9   0  0   19.0  0   0 ----   22  11  11  13   9   0  0  5.21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jay Hook         41  20  3  152.2  4  14 .222  168 104  93  89  53   0  1  5.48 Craig Anderson    3   2  0    9.1  0   2 .000   17  15   9   6   3   0  0  8.68 Steve Dillon      1   0  0    1.2  0   0 ----    3   2   2   1   0   0  0 10.80 =============================================================================== TEAM TOTALS     395 162 42 1427.2 51 111 .315 1452 774 654 806 529   5 12  4.12

ERA+  bWAR PoY =================  128   0.6  15.42 112 4.2 46.01  101   1.7  28.95   92   1.9  24.09   87   0.7  19.32 -----------------   81   0.5   5.81   80   0.3  13.71   73  -0.1   5.46   70  -0.4   4.02   68  -0.1  -0.58 -----------------   63  -0.9  -7.98   42  -0.7  -5.32   40  -0.1  -1.25 =================

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Coaching Staff	1963 National League Standings	1963 Opening Day Lineup
Casey Stengel, MGR Bill Dickey, CO Solly Hemus, CO Cookie Lavagetto, CO Clyde McCullough, CO Ernie White, CO	Team     W   L  PCT GB ====================== L A NL  99  63 .611    StL NL  93  69 .574  6 S F NL  88  74 .543 11 Phi NL  87  75 .537 12 Cin NL  86  76 .531 13 Mil NL  84  78 .519 15 Chi NL  82  80 .506 17 Pit NL  74  88 .457 25 Hou NL  66  96 .407 33 *METS*  51 111 .315 48	Larry Burright, 2B Choo Choo Coleman, C Ed Kranepool, RF Duke Snider, CF Frank Thomas, LF Tim Harkness, 1B Charlie Neal, 3B Al Moran, SS Roger Craig, P
THE SEAson story
In this second season of the return of National League baseball to New York, the pitching was a little bit better than it had been the previous year, but the hitting virtually disappeared. The club batted .219 as a unit, nor did they hit with any power to speak of. Last year’s chief slugger Frank Thomas dropped from 34 home runs to 15 this time around; ex-Dodger hero Duke Snider was right behind him with 14. Rookie Jim Hickman led the club with 17 long balls; no one else had more than ten. Former Milwaukee Braves swingman Carl Willey had a pretty good year as a starting pitcher, and Roger Craig and Al Jackson were their steady if unspectacular selves. Craig lost more than 20 games for the second consecutive season, but Jackson tallied a surprising 13 victories to lead the club. Besides Hickman, the Mets boasted another significant rookie: second baseman Ron Hunt, who would finish second behind Pete Rose in the Rookie of the Year voting. The Mets won eleven more games than they had in 1962, creeping over 12 games closer to first place, but they still finished 15 games behind their nearest competition, their cohorts from the expansion draft, the Houston Colt .45s.

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