A unique trait shared by the worst NY Mets team of all-time and one of their best

The 1962 New York Mets and the 2000 club don’t get brought up in the same breath because if you’re going to talk about them both, you’re probably rattling off the entire team’s history or something along those lines. Separated by 38 years of existence, the two clubs share one unique trait.

It’s rare in MLB many walks of life to encounter someone who shares your name. When it happens, you have to get to know the person just in case there was some mistake at the hospital. Both players named Max Muncy sharing a birthday (although several years apart) or the Brady Feigl storyline of two players looking similar yet not sharing DNA proves there’s a glitch in the matrix somewhere.

Something similar has happened twice with the Mets. On both the inaugural 1962 team and later in 2000, teammates shared the same name.

How unique is it for two players to share a name on the same team?

Same names aren’t particularly special. Katy Perry is actually named Kate Hudson. Michael Keaton is Michael Douglas. In baseball, there are rarely shared names and sometimes players, like Ervin Santana, drop their given Johan as to not be confused with another the same way they do in Hollywood.

This didn’t apply for a cluster of men named Robert. On the 1962 Mets, Bob Miller and Bob Miller each played for them. One of them, a 23-year-old righty, pitched to a 4.89 ERA in his one season with the team. Traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers after the season, he’d put together some really good seasons there and elsewhere in parts of 17 MLB seasons.

Meanwhile, the other Bob Miller, a lefty, played his final MLB season with the 1962 Mets. His 7.08 ERA had even them moving on.

Flash forward to 2000. The one you might know about, this team had two more Roberts, or versions of it, with the same shared surname. Bobby Jones and Bobby Jones both pitched together on the same NL Pennant winning ball club.

There was Bobby Jones, the starting pitcher who debuted in 1993 and stuck with the Mets through 2000. A first-round pick who made it to the 1997 All-Star Game, he is by far best known for his one-hitter in the NLDS that year.

The other Mr. Jones logged only 11 games in 2000 and another 12 in 2002 with all but one coming in relief.

Only four players in MLB history made it to the majors going by Bob or Bobby Jones. Bob or Bobby Miller is a little more common with six, including one active.

The odds of getting killed by a shark are 1 in 1.37 million. Having a Bob or Bobby on the Mets with a shared last name as someone else is far more common.

Missing by a few years, Chris Young (the pitcher) played for the Mets in 2011 and 2012. Chris Young (the outfielder) joined in 2014.

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