1987 New York Mets Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 92-70
Finished 2nd in the NL's East Division
Attendance: 3,034,129, Avg. 38,318
Ballpark: Shea Stadium
Manager: Davey Johnson (92-70)
Location: New York, New York

1987 New York Mets Roster
1987 New York Mets Results

The New York Mets of the National League ended the 1987 season with a record of 92 wins and 70 losses, finishing second in the NL's East Division.

The Mets scored 823 runs, best in the league. New York conceded 698 runs. Darryl Strawberry walloped 39 home runs for the squad, while Gary Carter, Keith Hernandez, Howard Johnson and Kevin McReynolds each added 20 or more also. Darryl Strawberry recorded 104 runs batted in. Keith Hernandez paced all regular hitters with a .290 average. Dwight Gooden topped the team with 15 wins and a team-best 3.21 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Davey Johnson coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Dwight Gooden	15	7	.682	3.21	25	25	0	7	3	0	179.7	162	68	64	11	53	2	148	2	1	1	730
Sid Fernandez	12	8	.600	3.81	28	27	0	3	1	0	156.0	130	75	66	16	67	8	134	8	0	2	665
Ron Darling	12	8	.600	4.29	32	32	0	2	0	0	207.7	183	111	99	24	96	3	167	3	3	6	891
Terry Leach	11	1	.917	3.22	44	12	7	1	1	0	131.3	132	54	47	14	29	5	61	1	1	0	542
Rick Aguilera	11	3	.786	3.60	18	17	0	1	0	0	115.0	124	53	46	12	33	2	77	3	0	9	494
Roger McDowell	7	5	.583	4.16	56	0	45	0	0	25	88.7	95	41	41	7	28	4	32	2	1	3	384
David Cone	5	6	.455	3.71	21	13	3	1	0	1	99.3	87	46	41	11	44	1	68	5	4	2	420
Doug Sisk	3	1	.750	3.46	55	0	17	0	0	3	78.0	83	38	30	5	22	4	37	3	0	2	339
Bob Ojeda	3	5	.375	3.88	10	7	0	0	0	0	46.3	45	23	20	5	10	1	21	0	0	1	192
Randy Myers	3	6	.333	3.96	54	0	18	0	0	6	75.0	61	36	33	6	30	5	92	0	0	3	314
John Mitchell	3	6	.333	4.11	20	19	0	1	0	0	111.7	124	64	51	6	36	3	57	2	1	7	493
Jesse Orosco	3	9	.250	4.44	58	0	41	0	0	16	77.0	78	41	38	5	31	9	78	2	0	2	335
John Candelaria	2	0	1.000	5.84	3	3	0	0	0	0	12.3	17	8	8	1	3	0	10	0	1	0	57
Gene Walter	1	2	.333	3.20	21	0	6	0	0	0	19.7	18	10	7	1	13	3	11	1	0	1	89
Don Schulze	1	2	.333	6.23	5	4	1	0	0	0	21.7	24	15	15	4	6	0	5	1	0	0	91
Bob Gibson	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	4
Tom Edens	0	0		6.75	2	2	0	0	0	0	8.0	15	6	6	2	4	0	4	0	0	2	42
Jeff Innis	0	1	.000	3.16	17	1	8	0	0	0	25.7	29	9	9	5	4	1	28	1	1	1	109
Totals	92	70	.568	3.84	470	162	146	16	5	51	1454.0	1407	698	621	135	510	51	1032	34	13	42	6191

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Keith Hernandez	154	676	587	87	170	28	2	18	89	0	2	81	104	.290	.377	.436	.813	256	15	4	0	4	8
Kevin McReynolds	151	639	590	86	163	32	5	29	95	14	1	39	70	.276	.318	.495	.813	292	13	1	1	8	5
Darryl Strawberry	154	640	532	108	151	32	5	39	104	36	12	97	122	.284	.398	.583	.981	310	4	7	0	4	13
Howard Johnson	157	645	554	93	147	22	1	36	99	32	10	83	113	.265	.364	.504	.868	279	8	5	0	3	18
Lenny Dykstra	132	479	431	86	123	37	3	10	43	27	7	40	67	.285	.352	.455	.806	196	1	4	4	0	3
Gary Carter	139	573	523	55	123	18	2	20	83	0	0	42	73	.235	.290	.392	.682	205	14	1	1	6	1
Mookie Wilson	124	425	385	58	115	19	7	9	34	21	6	35	85	.299	.359	.455	.814	175	2	2	2	1	8
Rafael Santana	139	470	439	41	112	21	2	5	44	1	1	29	57	.255	.302	.346	.648	152	11	1	0	1	10
Tim Teufel	97	350	299	55	92	29	0	14	61	3	2	44	53	.308	.398	.545	.943	163	7	2	3	2	2
Wally Backman	94	335	300	43	75	6	1	1	23	11	3	25	43	.250	.307	.287	.593	86	5	0	9	1	0
Dave Magadan	85	216	192	21	61	13	1	3	24	0	0	22	22	.318	.386	.443	.829	85	5	0	1	1	2
Lee Mazzilli	88	148	124	26	38	8	1	3	24	5	3	21	14	.306	.399	.460	.858	57	3	0	0	3	3
Barry Lyons	53	143	130	15	33	4	1	4	24	0	0	8	24	.254	.301	.392	.693	51	1	2	0	3	1
Keith Miller	25	57	51	14	19	2	2	0	1	8	1	2	6	.373	.407	.490	.898	25	1	1	3	0	0
Dwight Gooden	25	71	64	4	14	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	9	.219	.227	.219	.446	14	1	0	5	1	0
Bill Almon	49	62	54	8	13	3	0	0	4	1	0	8	16	.241	.339	.296	.635	16	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Aguilera	18	47	40	5	9	1	0	1	3	0	0	1	17	.225	.244	.325	.569	13	0	0	6	0	0
Ron Darling	32	77	65	5	8	5	0	0	4	0	0	2	22	.123	.149	.200	.349	13	0	0	10	0	0
Sid Fernandez	29	55	43	2	7	1	1	0	2	0	0	1	19	.163	.178	.233	.410	10	2	0	10	1	0
Kevin Elster	5	10	10	1	4	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.400	.400	.600	1.000	6	1	0	0	0	0
John Mitchell	20	40	35	1	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	14	.114	.114	.143	.257	5	0	0	5	0	0
Gregg Jefferies	6	6	6	0	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.667	1.167	4	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Carreon	9	13	12	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	.250	.308	.250	.558	3	0	0	0	0	0
Roger McDowell	56	14	13	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.231	.286	.308	.593	4	0	0	0	0	0
Randy Myers	54	7	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.286	.286	.286	.571	2	0	0	0	0	0
David Cone	21	35	31	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	.065	.094	.097	.191	3	0	1	3	0	0
Terry Leach	44	39	33	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	14	.061	.114	.061	.175	2	0	0	4	0	0
Clint Hurdle	3	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
John Candelaria	3	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Ojeda	10	16	14	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.071	.188	.071	.259	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Edens	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gene Walter	21	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	1	0	0
Jeff Innis	17	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Sisk	55	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Don Schulze	5	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	2	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	1	0	0
Randy Milligan	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Al Pedrique	5	7	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jesse Orosco	58	9	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Bob Gibson	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2143	6333	5601	823	1499	287	34	192	771	159	49	592	1012	.268	.339	.434	.773	2430	94	31	70	39	74

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Keith Hernandez	1B	154	151	1315.3	1298	149	10	110	.993	9.901	9.396	0	0	0
Dave Magadan	1B	13	7	70.7	71	7	2	4	.975	9.934	6.000	0	0	0
Lee Mazzilli	1B	13	4	51.0	58	2	0	1	1.000	1.588	4.615	0	0	0
Gary Carter	1B	4	0	10.0	10	0	0	1	1.000	9.000	2.500	0	0	0
Bill Almon	1B	2	0	3.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	15.000	2.500	0	0	0
Tim Teufel	1B	1	0	2.0	1	1	1	1	.667	9.000	2.000	0	0	0
Clint Hurdle	1B	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Wally Backman	2B	87	77	654.7	131	210	6	44	.983	4.688	3.920	0	0	0
Tim Teufel	2B	92	71	652.0	138	213	10	43	.972	4.845	3.815	0	0	0
Keith Miller	2B	16	13	114.7	21	38	2	6	.967	4.631	3.688	0	0	0
Bill Almon	2B	10	1	29.7	4	7	1	1	.917	3.337	1.100	0	0	0
Al Pedrique	2B	1	0	3.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	9.000	3.000	0	0	0
Howard Johnson	3B	140	127	1144.3	82	235	21	15	.938	2.493	2.264	0	0	0
Dave Magadan	3B	50	35	309.7	17	85	2	5	.981	2.964	2.040	0	0	0
Gary Carter	C	135	132	1142.0	874	70	9	13	.991	7.440	6.993	5	122	46	27.4
Barry Lyons	C	49	30	312.0	223	17	4	0	.984	6.923	4.898	4	39	11	22.0
Darryl Strawberry	OF	151	149	1296.3	272	6	8	3	.972	1.930	1.841	0	0	0
Kevin McReynolds	OF	150	147	1294.0	286	8	4	0	.987	2.045	1.960	0	0	0
Lenny Dykstra	OF	118	100	866.0	239	4	3	1	.988	2.525	2.059	0	0	0
Mookie Wilson	OF	109	76	744.3	205	3	8	2	.963	2.515	1.908	0	0	0
Lee Mazzilli	OF	25	11	127.7	24	1	0	0	1.000	1.762	1.000	0	0	0
Mark Carreon	OF	5	2	21.0	4	0	1	0	.800	1.714	.800	0	0	0
Gary Carter	OF	1	1	8.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	2.000	0	0	0
Howard Johnson	OF	2	0	3.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bill Almon	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Ron Darling	P	32	32	207.7	17	43	3	5	.952	2.600	1.875	0	0	0
Dwight Gooden	P	25	25	179.7	15	22	3	3	.925	1.853	1.480	0	0	0
Sid Fernandez	P	28	28	156.0	4	12	1	0	.941	.923	.571	0	0	0
Terry Leach	P	44	12	131.3	18	21	2	3	.951	2.673	.886	0	0	0
Rick Aguilera	P	18	17	115.0	7	29	2	1	.947	2.817	2.000	0	0	0
John Mitchell	P	20	19	111.7	16	21	6	3	.860	2.982	1.850	0	0	0
David Cone	P	21	13	99.3	12	10	1	0	.957	1.993	1.048	0	0	0
Roger McDowell	P	56	0	88.7	10	17	0	1	1.000	2.741	.482	0	0	0
Doug Sisk	P	55	0	78.0	5	19	0	0	1.000	2.769	.436	0	0	0
Jesse Orosco	P	58	0	77.0	4	9	0	1	1.000	1.519	.224	0	0	0
Randy Myers	P	54	0	75.0	5	9	1	0	.933	1.680	.259	0	0	0
Bob Ojeda	P	10	7	46.3	5	6	0	2	1.000	2.137	1.100	0	0	0
Jeff Innis	P	17	1	25.7	3	2	0	0	1.000	1.753	.294	0	0	0
Don Schulze	P	5	3	21.7	6	6	0	0	1.000	4.985	2.400	0	0	0
Gene Walter	P	21	0	19.7	2	2	1	1	.800	1.831	.190	0	0	0
John Candelaria	P	3	3	12.3	2	1	0	0	1.000	2.189	1.000	0	0	0
Tom Edens	P	2	2	8.0	0	4	1	0	.800	4.500	2.000	0	0	0
Bob Gibson	P	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Rafael Santana	SS	138	129	1125.3	213	396	17	82	.973	4.871	4.413	0	0	0
Howard Johnson	SS	38	26	225.7	36	70	5	12	.955	4.227	2.789	0	0	0
Bill Almon	SS	22	4	71.3	8	27	1	3	.972	4.416	1.591	0	0	0
Kevin Elster	SS	3	2	18.0	4	6	1	0	.909	5.000	3.333	0	0	0
Al Pedrique	SS	4	1	13.7	2	7	0	0	1.000	5.927	2.250	0	0	0
Totals		2005	1458	13086.0	4362	1797	137	367	.978	4.236	3.072	9	161	57	26.1

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