In honor of Johnny Franco being announced as the newest member of the Mets Hall of Fame, I tthought it would be a good time to list the Top Ten Met Save Leaders. Notice how many more saves Franco has then any other Met pitcher. It is over a hundred more then the reliever in second place.
Here is the Top Ten:
1) --John Franco---276
2) Armando Benitez---160
3) Jesse Orosco--107
4) Billy Wagner--101
5) Tug McGraw---85
6) Roger McDowell--84
7) K Rod--83 (I'm sure he would have fought to stay if he knew he was only three away from being 5th on the list)
8) Neil Allen--69
9) Skip Lockwood--65
10) Braden Looper---57
My top three are:
3) John Franco---Best Met Reliever of all-time and should have had a World Series ring.
2) Tug McGraw--Loved his fun loving qualities and his enthusism. Rarely has a relief pitcher completely changed a team mindset as he did in their 1973 run
1) Jesse Orosco---When I think of Orosco, I think of the '86 World Series and how clutch he was. Without taking anything away from Ray Knight, Orosco should have been MVP. The reason the Mets won the Series is we had Orosco and they had Schiraldi.
Who is your favorite Met reliever?
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