Sabermetric trivia: Name top WAR player on 1986 Mets

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Go for it.

We can name top 5, to spice it up, too.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

No cheating. Let's make it fun.

[JAKEPEAVY21]

Gooden

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Gooden

No, but he is in top5.

He was ROY in '84. DOMINANT, cyY in '85. Good but not great in '86.

[BRAVES1985]

keith hernandez
strawberry
carter
dykstra
mookie

[BRAVES1985]

top war i will say lenny

[ChuckyTheGoat]

keith hernandez
strawberry
carter
dykstra
mookie

Very good guess. Keith H was 1st, LennyD 2nd.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Answer:

Keith Hernandez 5.5
Len Dykstra 4.7
Ron Darling 4.4
Dwight Gooden 4.3
Bobby Ojeda 4.3

[ChuckyTheGoat]

I thought this was an interesting one. Such a loaded team. A few comments:

* Strawberry was 7th, 3.4. He was always vulnerable to LHP, particularly in that yr.

* Wally Backman was 8th, 3.2. He was a low-walk guy, but did hit .320 that yr.

* Ray Knight was 12th, 2.4. Knight had a big year and was WS MVP. But he was shot after, didn't re-sign, retired within two years b4 going into announcing/managing.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

keith hernandez
strawberry
carter
dykstra
mookie

BTW, Carter was 6th...and Mookie was 9th.

[BRAVES1985]

ya just saw the 30 for 30 documentary about doc and strawberry so alot of those names were in my head ..... yes very good team they had

[ChuckyTheGoat]

ya just saw the 30 for 30 documentary about doc and strawberry so alot of those names were in my head ..... yes very good team they had

For sure. It's so ez for the critics to take shots at uber-talents. Doc + Darryl made it look SO easy.

Gooden was dominant at a very young age. And Darryl easily had the sweetest LH power stroke imaginable.

As much as the critics want to shoot daggers at Doc + Darryl...each still wound up having successful careers (by any normal standard). Their career WAR figures are north of some HOFers.