Everyone knows the best seasons in New York Mets history. Dwight Gooden in 1985. Jacob deGrom in 2018. Tom Seaver in 1971. Or 1973. Or 1975. However, not everyone knows who had the best season at each age. Some of the seasons above will be featured in this article, surprisingly, not all of them make the cut.
Obviously, some players have their birthday mid-season, so technically they will play that year at two different ages. However, for these purposes, we will go off of what age Baseball-Reference says the season was played at.
For example, Max Scherzer’s birthday is July 27 — mid-season. That means he will play the 2022 season as both a 37- and 38-year-old. To solve this issue, we turn to Baseball-Reference, which has 2022 as Scherzer’s age-37 season, so that’s what it will be. To go by anything else would be arbitrary.
There are 27 ages on this list, and only nine of them belong to hitters.
It is the Mets we’re talking about after all. This is a pitching franchise, through and through.
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