1998 New York Mets Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 88-74
Finished 2nd in the NL's East Division
Attendance: 2,287,948, Avg. 29,714
Ballpark: Shea Stadium
Manager: Bobby Valentine (88-74)
Location: New York, New York

1998 New York Mets Roster
1998 New York Mets Results

The New York Mets of the National League ended the 1998 season with a record of 88 wins and 74 losses, finishing second in the NL's East Division.

The Mets plated 706 runs and yielded 645 runs. Mike Piazza paced New York with 23 home runs, while Edgardo Alfonzo, Brian McRae and John Olerud each walloped 20 or more also. John Olerud drove in 93 runs and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .354 average. Al Leiter led the team with 17 wins, and Rick Reed as well added 15 or more victories as well Al Leiter earned a 2.47 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Bobby Valentine 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
Al Leiter	17	6	.739	2.47	28	28	0	4	2	0	193.0	151	55	53	8	71	2	174	11	1	4	789
Rick Reed	16	11	.593	3.48	31	31	0	2	1	0	212.3	208	84	82	30	29	2	153	6	0	1	845
Bobby Jones	9	9	.500	4.05	30	30	0	0	0	0	195.3	192	94	88	23	53	2	115	8	2	2	804
Dennis Cook	8	4	.667	2.38	73	0	18	0	0	1	68.0	60	21	18	5	27	4	79	3	1	1	286
Armando Reynoso	7	3	.700	3.82	11	11	0	0	0	0	68.3	64	31	29	4	32	3	40	5	2	2	292
Masato Yoshii	6	8	.429	3.93	29	29	0	1	0	0	171.7	166	79	75	22	53	5	117	6	1	5	724
Turk Wendell	5	1	.833	2.93	66	0	17	0	0	4	76.7	62	25	25	4	33	9	58	2	0	1	319
Mel Rojas	5	2	.714	6.05	50	0	19	0	0	2	58.0	68	39	39	9	30	5	41	3	0	2	262
Greg McMichael	4	1	.800	4.06	30	0	12	0	0	1	31.0	41	19	14	7	15	5	22	2	1	3	149
Hideo Nomo	4	5	.444	4.82	17	16	0	1	0	0	89.7	73	49	48	11	56	2	94	1	3	9	392
Brian Bohanon	2	4	.333	3.15	25	4	4	0	0	0	54.3	47	21	19	4	21	2	39	6	0	1	230
Willie Blair	1	1	.500	3.14	11	2	2	0	0	0	28.7	23	10	10	4	10	0	21	1	0	1	116
Jeff Tam	1	1	.500	6.28	15	0	5	0	0	0	14.3	13	10	10	2	4	1	8	2	0	0	60
Greg McMichael	1	2	.333	3.97	22	0	6	0	0	0	22.7	23	12	10	1	14	2	22	1	0	2	102
John Hudek	1	4	.200	4.00	28	0	15	0	0	0	27.0	23	13	12	2	19	3	28	2	0	0	123
Dave Mlicki	1	4	.200	5.68	10	10	0	1	0	0	57.0	68	38	36	8	25	4	39	5	0	4	264
Rigo Beltran	0	0		3.38	7	0	0	0	0	0	8.0	6	3	3	1	4	0	5	0	0	0	33
Bill Pulsipher	0	0		6.91	15	1	1	0	0	0	14.3	23	11	11	2	5	1	13	0	0	0	68
Brad Clontz	0	0		9.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	4	3	3	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	14
John Franco	0	8	.000	3.62	61	0	54	0	0	38	64.7	66	28	26	4	29	7	59	4	0	2	289
Totals	88	74	.543	3.77	561	162	153	9	3	46	1458.0	1381	645	611	152	532	59	1129	68	11	40	6161

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
John Olerud	160	665	557	91	197	36	4	22	93	2	2	96	73	.354	.447	.551	.998	307	15	4	1	7	11
Edgardo Alfonzo	144	630	557	94	155	28	2	17	78	8	3	65	77	.278	.355	.427	.782	238	11	3	2	3	1
Brian McRae	159	645	552	79	146	36	5	21	79	20	11	80	90	.264	.360	.462	.822	255	5	5	3	5	3
Mike Piazza	109	446	394	67	137	33	0	23	76	1	0	47	53	.348	.417	.607	1.024	239	12	2	0	3	10
Carlos Baerga	147	551	511	46	136	27	1	7	53	0	1	24	55	.266	.303	.364	.667	186	21	6	3	7	6
Rey Ordonez	153	548	505	46	124	20	2	1	42	3	6	23	60	.246	.278	.299	.577	151	11	1	15	4	7
Butch Huskey	113	402	369	43	93	18	0	13	59	7	6	26	66	.252	.300	.407	.707	150	13	1	2	4	3
Luis Lopez	117	295	266	37	67	13	2	2	22	2	2	20	60	.252	.312	.338	.650	90	10	4	3	2	3
Bernard Gilkey	82	305	264	33	60	15	0	4	28	5	1	32	66	.227	.317	.330	.646	87	6	4	2	3	1
Matt Franco	103	187	161	20	44	7	2	1	13	0	1	23	26	.273	.366	.360	.726	58	8	1	1	1	6
Tony Phillips	52	229	188	25	42	11	0	3	14	1	1	38	44	.223	.351	.330	.681	62	1	0	1	2	0
Lenny Harris	75	184	168	18	39	7	0	6	17	5	2	9	12	.232	.272	.381	.653	64	5	1	4	2	1
Todd Hundley	53	142	124	8	20	4	0	3	12	1	1	16	55	.161	.261	.266	.527	33	0	1	0	1	0
Todd Pratt	41	71	69	9	19	9	1	2	18	0	0	2	20	.275	.296	.522	.818	36	0	0	0	0	0
Rich Becker	49	121	100	15	19	4	2	3	10	3	1	21	42	.190	.331	.360	.691	36	1	0	0	0	2
Alberto Castillo	38	99	83	13	17	4	0	2	7	0	2	9	17	.205	.290	.325	.616	27	1	1	6	0	0
Jermaine Allensworth	34	57	54	9	11	2	0	2	4	0	2	2	16	.204	.246	.352	.597	19	0	1	0	0	0
Bobby Jones	30	62	48	1	9	1	0	0	4	0	0	2	21	.188	.220	.208	.428	10	1	0	12	0	0
Jim Tatum	35	57	50	4	9	1	2	2	13	0	0	3	19	.180	.211	.400	.611	20	0	0	0	4	0
Hideo Nomo	17	33	30	3	8	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	11	.267	.290	.267	.557	8	0	0	2	0	0
Rick Reed	31	79	64	6	8	0	0	1	5	0	0	3	21	.125	.164	.172	.336	11	0	0	12	0	0
Jay Payton	15	23	22	2	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.318	.348	.364	.711	8	0	0	0	0	0
Tim Spehr	21	60	51	3	7	1	0	0	3	1	0	7	16	.137	.267	.157	.424	8	0	2	0	0	1
Brian Bohanon	25	14	14	1	6	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	4	.429	.429	.500	.929	7	0	0	0	0	0
Preston Wilson	8	22	20	3	6	2	0	0	2	1	1	2	8	.300	.364	.400	.764	8	0	0	0	0	0
Wayne Kirby	26	33	31	5	6	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	9	.194	.219	.258	.477	8	0	0	1	0	0
Jorge Fabregas	20	34	32	3	6	0	0	1	5	0	0	1	6	.188	.212	.281	.493	9	1	0	1	0	0
Al Leiter	28	69	57	1	6	3	0	0	4	0	0	7	32	.105	.203	.158	.361	9	0	0	5	0	0
Craig Paquette	7	19	19	3	5	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	.263	.263	.368	.632	7	3	0	0	0	0
Armando Reynoso	11	31	30	2	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	.167	.167	.233	.400	7	0	0	1	0	0
Dave Mlicki	10	21	16	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	.188	.278	.188	.465	3	0	0	3	0	0
Masato Yoshii	29	59	48	3	3	1	0	0	3	0	0	3	27	.063	.118	.083	.201	4	0	0	8	0	0
Rick Wilkins	5	17	15	3	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	2	.133	.235	.133	.369	2	0	0	0	0	0
Benny Agbayani	11	16	15	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	5	.133	.188	.133	.321	2	1	0	0	0	0
Willie Blair	11	6	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.250	.500	.250	.750	1	0	0	0	0	0
Shawn Gilbert	3	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Kinkade	3	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turk Wendell	66	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Tam	15	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dennis Cook	73	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rigo Beltran	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Pulsipher	16	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Greg McMichael	30	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ralph Milliard	10	1	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Todd Haney	3	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	0	0	0
John Franco	61	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mel Rojas	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Brad Clontz	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Hudek	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Greg McMichael	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2358	6255	5510	706	1425	289	24	136	671	62	46	572	1049	.259	.330	.394	.724	2170	126	37	88	48	55

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
John Olerud	1B	157	149	1336.7	1258	116	5	119	.996	9.251	8.752	0	0	0
Matt Franco	1B	11	6	72.3	68	4	0	3	1.000	8.959	6.545	0	0	0
Jim Tatum	1B	9	4	34.0	32	1	0	1	1.000	8.735	3.667	0	0	0
Todd Pratt	1B	3	3	10.3	11	0	0	1	1.000	9.581	3.667	0	0	0
Craig Paquette	1B	2	0	2.7	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.125	1.500	0	0	0
Tim Spehr	1B	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0
Lenny Harris	1B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Carlos Baerga	2B	144	135	1164.7	289	340	9	97	.986	4.861	4.368	0	0	0
Luis Lopez	2B	50	27	280.7	74	85	4	16	.975	5.099	3.180	0	0	0
Ralph Milliard	2B	5	0	7.7	3	2	1	0	.833	5.870	1.000	0	0	0
Lenny Harris	2B	2	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	.500	0	0	0
Todd Haney	2B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Edgardo Alfonzo	3B	144	136	1232.0	117	248	9	20	.976	2.666	2.535	0	0	0
Matt Franco	3B	13	11	84.0	5	18	0	2	1.000	2.464	1.769	0	0	0
Lenny Harris	3B	10	7	49.3	2	11	1	1	.929	2.372	1.300	0	0	0
Luis Lopez	3B	11	3	44.7	1	12	0	2	1.000	2.619	1.182	0	0	0
Craig Paquette	3B	4	3	26.0	2	2	0	1	1.000	1.385	1.000	0	0	0
Jim Tatum	3B	3	2	17.0	2	2	0	0	1.000	2.118	1.333	0	0	0
Mike Kinkade	3B	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Shawn Gilbert	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mike Piazza	C	99	99	845.3	680	57	8	5	.989	7.847	7.444	5	74	28	27.5
Alberto Castillo	C	35	28	245.7	193	15	2	3	.990	7.620	5.943	1	13	15	53.6
Tim Spehr	C	21	15	147.0	118	10	0	1	1.000	7.837	6.095	1	12	7	36.8
Todd Pratt	C	16	8	90.7	67	4	2	1	.973	7.048	4.438	2	5	4	44.4
Jorge Fabregas	C	12	5	63.3	62	6	2	2	.971	9.663	5.667	2	8	3	27.3
Rick Wilkins	C	4	4	34.0	21	1	1	0	.957	5.824	5.500	0	3	1	25.0
Todd Hundley	C	2	2	18.0	18	2	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	0	1	2	66.7
Jim Tatum	C	4	1	14.0	11	3	0	0	1.000	9.000	3.500	0	1	4	80.0
Brian McRae	OF	154	144	1305.3	302	8	4	3	.987	2.137	2.013	0	0	0
Butch Huskey	OF	103	94	796.3	166	8	4	1	.978	1.967	1.689	0	0	0
Bernard Gilkey	OF	77	67	602.7	121	9	1	1	.992	1.941	1.688	0	0	0
Tony Phillips	OF	51	49	428.3	86	2	3	0	.967	1.849	1.725	0	0	0
Lenny Harris	OF	65	29	329.3	80	3	1	0	.988	2.268	1.277	0	0	0
Rich Becker	OF	41	23	227.3	56	4	1	0	.984	2.375	1.463	0	0	0
Todd Hundley	OF	34	34	216.7	42	2	5	0	.898	1.828	1.294	0	0	0
Jermaine Allensworth	OF	31	12	133.3	22	0	0	0	1.000	1.485	.710	0	0	0
Matt Franco	OF	13	8	76.0	11	1	1	0	.923	1.421	.923	0	0	0
Wayne Kirby	OF	19	4	56.7	15	1	0	1	1.000	2.541	.842	0	0	0
Luis Lopez	OF	9	6	53.7	12	0	1	0	.923	2.012	1.333	0	0	0
Preston Wilson	OF	7	6	47.0	10	0	1	0	.909	1.915	1.429	0	0	0
Jay Payton	OF	10	3	38.0	6	1	0	0	1.000	1.658	.700	0	0	0
Benny Agbayani	OF	9	3	32.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.688	.667	0	0	0
Jim Tatum	OF	4	3	22.3	6	0	0	0	1.000	2.418	1.500	0	0	0
Craig Paquette	OF	1	1	7.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Todd Haney	OF	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Rick Reed	P	31	31	212.3	12	38	1	2	.980	2.119	1.613	0	0	0
Bobby Jones	P	30	30	195.3	14	35	2	3	.961	2.258	1.633	0	0	0
Al Leiter	P	28	28	193.0	4	18	0	0	1.000	1.026	.786	0	0	0
Masato Yoshii	P	29	29	171.7	14	20	3	2	.919	1.783	1.172	0	0	0
Hideo Nomo	P	17	16	89.7	4	12	0	0	1.000	1.606	.941	0	0	0
Turk Wendell	P	66	0	76.7	5	12	1	0	.944	1.996	.258	0	0	0
Armando Reynoso	P	11	11	68.3	5	24	1	2	.967	3.820	2.636	0	0	0
Dennis Cook	P	73	0	68.0	2	9	1	1	.917	1.456	.151	0	0	0
John Franco	P	61	0	64.7	4	16	0	2	1.000	2.784	.328	0	0	0
Mel Rojas	P	50	0	58.0	6	11	1	1	.944	2.638	.340	0	0	0
Dave Mlicki	P	10	10	57.0	6	8	1	0	.933	2.211	1.400	0	0	0
Brian Bohanon	P	25	4	54.3	6	16	1	1	.957	3.644	.880	0	0	0
Greg McMichael	P	30	0	31.0	1	5	0	0	1.000	1.742	.200	0	0	0
Willie Blair	P	11	2	28.7	0	6	0	0	1.000	1.884	.545	0	0	0
John Hudek	P	28	0	27.0	1	5	0	0	1.000	2.000	.214	0	0	0
Greg McMichael	P	22	0	22.7	3	4	0	1	1.000	2.779	.318	0	0	0
Jeff Tam	P	15	0	14.3	3	1	0	0	1.000	2.512	.267	0	0	0
Bill Pulsipher	P	15	1	14.3	0	5	0	0	1.000	3.140	.333	0	0	0
Rigo Beltran	P	7	0	8.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.125	.143	0	0	0
Brad Clontz	P	2	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	.500	0	0	0
Rey Ordonez	SS	151	147	1289.0	265	401	17	82	.975	4.650	4.411	0	0	0
Luis Lopez	SS	39	15	167.0	36	47	6	17	.933	4.473	2.128	0	0	0
Ralph Milliard	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Edgardo Alfonzo	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		2148	1458	13122.0	4374	1672	101	395	.984	4.147	2.815	11	117	64	35.4

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