New York Mets

Every MLB player the encyclopedia attributes to the New York Metsfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.

Every position room New York Mets has passed down, steadiest first. The 2B room is their most stable — 10 holders across 63 years, a new one every 6.3 on average.

1. 2B10 holders · 9 handoffs · 1963–2025 · one every 6.3y
   Ron Hunt1963–1966→Ken Boswell1967–1974→Felix Millan1973–1977→Doug Flynn1977–1981→Wally Backman1980–1988→Tim Teufel1986–1991→Jeff Kent1992–1996→Luis Castillo2007–2010→Daniel Murphy2008–2015→Jeff McNeil2018–2025
2. SS11 holders · 10 handoffs · 1965–2026 · one every 5.6y
   Bud Harrelson1965–1977→Tim Foli1970–1979→Frank Taveras1979–1981→Bill Almon1980–1987→Rafael Santana1984–1987→Kevin Elster1986–1992→Rey Ordonez1996–2002→José Reyes2003–2018→Rubén Tejada2010–2019→Asdrúbal Cabrera2016–2018→Francisco Lindor2021–2026
3. C11 holders · 10 handoffs · 1966–2026 · one every 5.5y
   Jerry Grote1966–1977→Ron Hodges1973–1984→John Stearns1975–1984→Alex Trevino1978–1990→Gary Carter1985–1989→Mackey Sasser1988–1992→Todd Hundley1990–1998→Kelly Stinnett1994–2006→Mike Piazza1998–2005→Travis d'Arnaud2013–2019→Francisco Alvarez2022–2026
4. 3B15 holders · 14 handoffs · 1964–2026 · one every 4.2y
   Charley Smith1964–1965→Ed Charles1967–1969→Wayne Garrett1969–1976→Lenny Randle1977–1978→Howard Johnson1985–1993→Dave Magadan1986–1992→Bobby Bonilla1992–1999→Edgardo Alfonzo1995–2002→Robin Ventura1999–2001→Todd Zeile2000–2004→David Wright2004–2018→Amed Rosario2017–2020→Todd Frazier2018–2020→J.D. Davis2019–2022→Brett Baty2022–2026
5. DH2 holders · 1 handoff · 2015–2022 · one every 4y
   Michael Conforto2015–2021→Dominic Smith2017–2022
6. 1B18 holders · 17 handoffs · 1962–2026 · one every 3.6y
   Ed Kranepool1962–1979→Mike Jorgensen1968–1983→Donn Clendenon1969–1971→John Milner1971–1977→Dave Kingman1975–1983→Willie Montanez1978–1979→Keith Hernandez1983–1989→Gregg Jefferies1987–1991→Eddie Murray1992–1993→Rico Brogna1994–1996→John Olerud1997–1999→Mike Jacobs2005–2010→Carlos Delgado2006–2009→Ike Davis2010–2014→Lucas Duda2010–2017→Wilmer Flores2013–2018→Pete Alonso2019–2025→Mark Vientos2022–2026

+2 more rooms with a shorter average hold.

Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1962–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.