The 3 biggest Mets playoff villains who played for the Dodgers

3) Chase Utley

To be honest, Chase Utley was the type of player that you would love to have on YOUR team. He was a clutch, hard-nosed player that always seemed to have the Mets number. During his career, he hit 39 home runs of his 259 career homers against the Mets.

By 2015, Utley was winding down his career at age 36 and he was traded to the Dodgers for a much-needed support player down the stretch. As fate would have it, he would be there with the Dodgers to face the Mets in the National League Division Series.

And while an opposing player hitting a dramatic home run, or blowing a pitch by a Met for Strike Three would be enough to invite the ire of Mets fans, physically hurting someone with a malicious intent would seem to put them into the Pete Rose Hall of Shame.

The Mets were not the best team in 2015, but they were certainly the hottest team, riding the bat of Yoenis Cespedes and arms of their young rotation. They had the momentum.

And Utley had plenty of momentum when he slid hard into Ruben Tejada to break up a double play in the seventh inning of Game 2 of the NLDS. Utley upended Tejada in such a way that the result was a broken fibula for Tejada that ended his season right there.

Utley would be suspended by MLB and he would eventually send an apology through Mets captain David Wright. But he will always be the ultimate playoff villain in the eyes of New York Mets fans.