We started with 68 of the most beloved New York Mets players of all-time. After four play-in rounds, our Mets Madness Tournament went to a field of 64. After five weeks, we’re down to 32.
This is how things turned out in the first round of Mets Madness over on the Rising Apple Twitter page:
December 1: Steven Matz wins with 60% of the vote over Joe McEwing for the number 11 seed
December 2: Endy Chavez wins with 63% of the vote over Billy Wagner for the number 15 seed
December 3: Art Shamsky wins with 85% of the vote over Jack Fisher for the number 14 seed
December 4: Lenny Dykstra wins with 53% of the vote over Ray Knight for the number 16 seed
December 5: Wilmer Flores (7) wins with 52% of the vote over Curtis Granderson (10)
December 6: Gary Carter (5) wins with 93% of the vote over Sid Fernandez (12)
December 7: Bartolo Colon (3) wins with 77% of the vote over Benny Agbayani (14)
December 8: Tom Seaver (1) wins with 95% of the vote over Wayne Garrett (16)
December 9: Noah Syndergaard (6) wins with 93% of the vote over Steven Matz (11)
December 10: Ron Darling (4) wins with 86% of the vote over Todd Hundley (13)
December 11: Edgardo Alfonzo (2) wins with 71% of the vote over Endy Chavez (15)
December 12: Cleon Jones (9) wins with 89% of the vote over Ron Hunt (8)
December 13: Jose Reyes (5) wins with 63% of the vote over Pedro Martinez (12)
December 14: Darryl Strawberry (3) wins with 97% of the vote over Bret Saberhagen (14)
December 15: Mike Piazza (1) wins with 94% of the vote over Al Leiter (16)
December 16: Tommie Agee (10) wins with 80% of the vote over John Stearns (7)
December 17: Johan Santana (4) wins with 74% of the vote over Matt Harvey (13)
December 18: Dwight Gooden (2) wins with 92% of the vote over Bob Ojeda (15)
December 19: Jesse Orosco (8) wins with 73% of the vote over Lee Mazzilli (9)
December 20: Jerry Grote (6) wins with 66% of the vote over Felix Millan (11)
December 21: Carlos Beltran (3) wins with 71% of the vote over Carlos Delgado (14)
December 22: Keith Hernandez (1) wins with 96% of the vote over Lenny Dykstra (16)
December 23: Yoenis Cespedes (10) wins with 51% of the vote over Daniel Murphy (7)
December 24: Nolan Ryan (12) wins with 61% of the vote over Jon Matlack (5)
December 25: Jacob deGrom (2) wins with 98% of the vote over Jeurys Familia (15)
December 26: Mookie Wilson (8) wins with 87% of the vote over Wally Backman (9)
December 27: Rusty Staub (6) wins with 53% of the vote over the vote over R.