1968 New York Mets

73-89 • 0.451 Win% • 9th in NL

📊 Season Record

73 Wins
89 Losses
0.451 Win %
9th Rank
473 R 499 RA
Diff -26

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473 Runs Scored
499 Runs Allowed
-26 Run Diff
1,781K Attendance

📈 vs. 1968 NL Average

Batting Avg .227 6% below the 1968 league average (.243)
OBP .277 7% below the 1968 league average (.297)
SLG .271 7% below the 1968 league average (.291)
Team ERA 2.72 9% better than the 1968 league average (2.99)
Runs Scored 473 15% below the 1968 league average (558 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumShea Stadium
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Home Games 82
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Total Attendance 1,781,657
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Avg per Game 21,727

⚾ Batting Leaders

Batting Avg

1 Cleon Jones 0.297 2 Jerry Grote 0.282 3 Ed Charles 0.276 4 Ken Boswell 0.261 5 Ron Swoboda 0.242

Home Runs

1 Ed Charles 15 2 Cleon Jones 14 3 Art Shamsky 12 4 Ron Swoboda 11 5 Tommie Agee 5

RBI

1 Ron Swoboda 59 2 Cleon Jones 55 3 Ed Charles 53 4 Art Shamsky 48 5 Jerry Grote 31
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Cleon Jones 147 509 63 151 0 0 14 55 31 98 23 0.297
Ron Swoboda 132 450 46 109 0 0 11 59 52 113 8 0.242
Jerry Grote 124 404 29 114 0 0 3 31 44 81 1 0.282
Bud Harrelson 111 402 38 88 0 0 0 14 29 68 4 0.219
Ed Kranepool 127 373 29 86 0 0 3 20 19 39 0 0.231
Ed Charles 117 369 41 102 0 0 15 53 28 57 5 0.276
Tommie Agee 132 368 30 80 0 0 5 17 15 103 13 0.217
Art Shamsky 116 345 30 82 0 0 12 48 21 58 1 0.238
Ken Boswell 75 284 37 74 0 0 4 11 16 27 7 0.261
Al Weis 90 274 15 47 0 0 1 14 21 63 3 0.172
Phil Linz 78 258 19 54 0 0 0 17 10 41 1 0.209
J. C. Martin 78 244 20 55 0 0 3 31 21 31 0 0.225
Jerry Buchek 73 192 8 35 0 0 1 11 10 53 1 0.182
Larry Stahl 53 183 15 43 0 0 3 10 21 38 3 0.235
Kevin Collins 58 154 12 31 0 0 1 13 7 37 0 0.201
Don Bosch 50 111 14 19 0 0 3 7 9 33 0 0.171
Greg Goossen 38 106 4 22 0 0 0 6 10 21 0 0.208
Tom Seaver 38 95 5 15 0 0 0 3 3 44 0 0.158
Jerry Koosman 35 91 3 7 0 0 1 4 3 62 0 0.077
Don Cardwell 30 61 3 3 0 0 1 4 0 34 0 0.049
Dick Selma 39 58 4 12 0 0 0 1 0 20 1 0.207
Nolan Ryan 21 44 2 5 0 0 0 2 2 29 0 0.114
Al Jackson 27 28 2 7 0 0 0 2 0 9 0 0.250
Bob Heise 6 23 3 5 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0.217
Jim McAndrew 12 22 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 15 0 0.045
Mike Jorgensen 8 14 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0.143
Cal Koonce 55 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 0 0.000
Danny Frisella 19 12 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 1 0.083
Ron Taylor 58 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0.000
Duffy Dyer 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0.333
Bill Short 34 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Bill Connors 9 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1.000
Les Rohr 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.000
Don Shaw 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

ERA

1 Jerry Koosman 2.08 2 Tom Seaver 2.20 3 Jim McAndrew 2.28 4 Cal Koonce 2.41 5 Ron Taylor 2.70

Wins

1 Jerry Koosman 19 2 Tom Seaver 16 3 Dick Selma 9 4 Don Cardwell 7 5 Cal Koonce 6

Strikeouts

1 Tom Seaver 205 2 Jerry Koosman 178 3 Nolan Ryan 133 4 Dick Selma 117 5 Don Cardwell 82
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
Tom Seaver 16 12 2.20 36 35 1 277.2 48 205
Jerry Koosman 19 12 2.08 35 34 0 263.2 69 178
Don Cardwell 7 13 2.96 29 25 1 179.2 50 82
Dick Selma 9 10 2.76 33 23 0 169.2 54 117
Nolan Ryan 6 9 3.09 21 18 0 134.0 75 133
Cal Koonce 6 4 2.41 55 2 11 97.0 32 50
Al Jackson 3 7 3.69 25 9 3 92.2 17 59
Jim McAndrew 4 7 2.28 12 12 0 79.0 17 46
Ron Taylor 1 5 2.70 58 0 13 76.2 18 49
Danny Frisella 2 4 3.91 19 4 2 50.2 17 47
Bill Short 0 3 4.75 34 0 1 30.1 14 24
Bill Connors 0 1 9.00 9 0 0 14.0 7 8
Don Shaw 0 0 0.73 7 0 0 12.1 5 11
Les Rohr 0 2 4.50 2 1 0 6.0 7 5

👥 Roster (34)

Tommie Agee Don Bosch Ken Boswell Jerry Buchek Don Cardwell Ed Charles Kevin Collins Bill Connors Duffy Dyer Danny Frisella Greg Goossen Jerry Grote +22 more

34 players

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