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Message: [QUOTE="connie, post: 2734062, member: 7882"] Oy. Even then, I did not understand why. I know Ed Charles had retired at end of '69, and Wayne Garrett was quite young. (And let's not forget the other piece -- 3rd baseman Joy Foy for Amos Otis. Yikes!) Did the Mets really need a 3rd basemen that badly? I know Fregosi was a 4 or 5 time All-Star. But he was about 30, and his AL numbers had basically plateaued for years. And coming to a pitcher's park did not bode well. Still, would could've known? I remember hearing a joke in the mid-70s -- something like, "The Mets have the best team in baseball; it's just that all our best players are on other teams." [/QUOTE]