Beltran and the all-time Mets

A little exercise for Mets fans, now that Carlos Beltran is in San Francisco: Where would you place Beltran on the all-time depth chart.

Here is my starting nine:

C: Mike Piazza
1B: Keith Hernandez
2B: Edgardo Alfonzo
3B: David Wright
SS: Jose Reyes
LF: Cleon Jones
CF: Carlos Beltran
RF: Darryl Strawberry
SP: Tom Seaver

Bench
C: Gary Carter
1B: John Olerud and Carlos Delgado
2B: Felix Millan
3B: Robin Ventura
SS: Bud Harrelson
OF: Rusty Staub, Tommie Agee, Lenny Dykstra, Mookie Wilson
SP: Dwight Gooden, Jerry Koosman, Ron Darling, Al Leiter, Johan Santana
RP: John Franco, Jesse Orosco, Roger McDowell, Randy Myers, Tug McGraw, Billy Wagner

So, friendly fans of the Mets: What players did I leave out?

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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