1979 New York Mets

63-99 • 0.389 Win% • 6th in NL E

📊 Season Record

63 Wins
99 Losses
0.389 Win %
6th Rank
593 R 706 RA
Diff -113

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593 Runs Scored
706 Runs Allowed
-113 Run Diff
788K Attendance

📈 vs. 1979 NL Average

Batting Avg .250 4% below the 1979 league average (.260)
OBP .311 4% below the 1979 league average (.323)
SLG .289 11% below the 1979 league average (.325)
Team ERA 3.84 3% worse than the 1979 league average (3.73)
Runs Scored 593 13% below the 1979 league average (682 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumShea Stadium
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Home Games 82
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Total Attendance 788,764
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Avg per Game 9,619

⚾ Batting Leaders

Batting Avg

1 Steve Henderson 0.306 2 Lee Mazzilli 0.303 3 Joel Youngblood 0.275 4 Alex Trevino 0.271 5 Richie Hebner 0.268

Home Runs

1 Joel Youngblood 16 2 Lee Mazzilli 15 3 Richie Hebner 10 4 John Stearns 9 5 Steve Henderson 5

RBI

1 Richie Hebner 79 2 Lee Mazzilli 79 3 John Stearns 66 4 Doug Flynn 61 5 Joel Youngblood 60
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Frank Taveras 153 635 89 167 0 0 1 33 33 72 42 0.263
Lee Mazzilli 158 597 78 181 0 0 15 79 93 74 34 0.303
Joel Youngblood 158 590 90 162 0 0 16 60 60 84 18 0.275
Doug Flynn 157 555 35 135 0 0 4 61 17 46 0 0.243
John Stearns 155 538 58 131 0 0 9 66 52 57 15 0.243
Richie Hebner 136 473 54 127 0 0 10 79 59 59 3 0.268
Willie Montanez 109 410 36 96 0 0 5 47 25 48 0 0.234
Steve Henderson 98 350 42 107 0 0 5 39 38 58 13 0.306
Elliott Maddox 86 224 21 60 0 0 1 12 20 27 3 0.268
Alex Trevino 79 207 24 56 0 0 0 20 20 27 2 0.271
Ed Kranepool 82 155 7 36 0 0 2 17 13 18 0 0.232
Dan Norman 44 110 9 27 0 0 3 11 10 26 2 0.245
Bruce Boisclair 59 98 7 18 0 0 0 4 3 24 0 0.184
Gil Flores 70 93 9 18 0 0 1 10 8 17 2 0.194
Ron Hodges 59 86 4 14 0 0 0 5 19 16 0 0.163
Craig Swan 35 81 3 10 0 0 0 2 6 38 0 0.123
Kelvin Chapman 35 80 7 12 0 0 0 4 5 15 0 0.150
Pete Falcone 33 52 1 9 0 0 0 2 2 19 0 0.173
Kevin Kobel 30 46 1 9 0 0 0 2 0 18 0 0.196
Jose Cardenal 11 37 8 11 0 0 2 4 6 3 1 0.297
Dock Ellis 17 26 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 7 0 0.077
Tom Hausman 19 26 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0.115
Andy Hassler 29 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 17 0 0.000
Pat Zachry 7 16 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0.125
Neil Allen 50 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0.000
Mike Scott 18 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 0 0.000
Wayne Twitchell 33 8 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0.375
Juan Berenguer 5 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0.143
Sergio Ferrer 32 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 0.000
Tim Foli 3 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ray Burris 4 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.167
Dale Murray 58 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0.000
Jesse Orosco 18 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0.000
Ed Glynn 46 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
John Pacella 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Skip Lockwood 28 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Roy Lee Jackson 8 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
Dwight Bernard 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.000
Jeff Reardon 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

ERA

1 Skip Lockwood 1.49 2 Tom Hausman 2.75 3 Juan Berenguer 2.93 4 Ed Glynn 3.00 5 Craig Swan 3.29

Wins

1 Craig Swan 14 2 Neil Allen 6 3 Pete Falcone 6 4 Kevin Kobel 6 5 Wayne Twitchell 5

Strikeouts

1 Craig Swan 145 2 Pete Falcone 113 3 Kevin Kobel 67 4 Neil Allen 65 5 Andy Hassler 53
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
Craig Swan 14 13 3.29 35 35 0 251.1 57 145
Pete Falcone 6 14 4.16 33 31 0 184.0 76 113
Kevin Kobel 6 8 3.51 30 27 0 161.2 46 67
Neil Allen 6 10 3.55 50 5 8 99.0 47 65
Dale Murray 4 8 4.82 58 0 4 97.0 52 37
Dock Ellis 3 7 6.04 17 14 0 85.0 34 41
Andy Hassler 4 5 3.70 29 8 4 80.1 42 53
Tom Hausman 2 6 2.75 19 10 2 78.2 19 33
Wayne Twitchell 5 3 5.23 33 2 0 63.2 55 44
Ed Glynn 1 4 3.00 46 0 7 60.0 40 32
Mike Scott 1 3 5.33 18 9 0 52.1 20 21
Dwight Bernard 0 3 4.70 32 1 0 44.0 26 20
Pat Zachry 5 1 3.59 7 7 0 42.2 21 17
Skip Lockwood 2 5 1.49 27 0 9 42.1 14 42
Jesse Orosco 1 2 4.89 18 2 0 35.0 22 22
Juan Berenguer 1 1 2.93 5 5 0 30.2 12 25
Ray Burris 0 2 3.32 4 4 0 21.2 6 10
Jeff Reardon 1 2 1.74 18 0 2 20.2 9 10
Roy Lee Jackson 1 0 2.20 8 0 0 16.1 5 10
John Pacella 0 2 4.41 4 3 0 16.1 4 12

👥 Roster (39)

Neil Allen Juan Berenguer Dwight Bernard Bruce Boisclair Ray Burris Jose Cardenal Kelvin Chapman Dock Ellis Pete Falcone Sergio Ferrer Gil Flores Doug Flynn +27 more

39 players

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