New York Mets / New York Yankees Combo

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Hello Baseball Fever Fans:

Here is a comprehensive list of players who PLAYED for both the New York Mets and New York Yankees. Each name is also linked to their career stats. Why? So you can answer or create other questions like who also played for the Brooklyn Dodgers? Or the New York Giants? Or all four? Or maybe who has a ring from both modern teams? There is no limit to the questions (or answers) you can make and I hope you have some fun.

Yankees who were Mets / Mets who were Yankees
(in alphabetical order & current thru January 2005)

Juan Acevedo
Jack Aker
Neil Allen
Sandy Alomar
Jason Anderson
Tucker Ashford
Armando Benitez
Yogi Berra
Daryl Boston
Tim Burke
Ray Burris
Miguel Cairo
John Candelaria
Duke Carmel
Alberto Castillo
Rick Cerone
Tony Clark
David Cone
Billy Cowan
Dock Ellis
Kevin Elster
Alvaro Espinoza
Tony Fernandez
Tim Foli
Bob Friend
Karim Garcia
Rob Gardner
Paul Gibson
Jesse Gonder
Doc Gooden
Lee Guetterman
Greg Harris
Rickey Henderson
Felix Heredia
Keith Hughes
Stan Jefferson
Lance Johnson
Dave Kingman
Tim Leary
Al Leiter
Phil Linz
Graeme Lloyd
Phil Lombardi
Elliott Maddox
Josias Manzanillo
Lee Mazzilli
Rob MacDonald
Doc Medich
Dale Murray
Bob Ojeda
John Olerud
Jesse Orosco
John Pacella
Len Randle
Willie Randolph
Jeff Reardon
Hal Reniff
Kenny Rogers
Ray Sanchez
Rafael Santana
Don Schulze
Bill Short
Charley Smith
Shane Spencer
Roy Staiger
Mike Stanton
Darryl Strawberry
Tom Sturdivant
Bill Sudakis
Ron Swoboda
Frank Tanana
Tony Tarasco
Walt Terrell
Ralph Terry
Ryan Thompson
Marv Throneberry
Dick Tidrow
Mike Torrez
Bubba Trammell
Robin Ventura
Jose Vizcaino
Claudell Washington
Allen Watson
David Weathers
Wally Whitehurst
Gene Woodling
Todd Zeile

Yankees Managers who were Mets Managers / Mets Managers who were Yankees Managers
(in alphabetical order & current thru January 2005)

Yogi Berra
Dallas Green
Casey Stengel
Joe Torre

Hope you enjoyed this list and my sincere thanks to all those who contributed, helped update it, thought of ideas (managers) and kept it accurate throughout the 2004 season. If somebody new comes along please let me know and I'll keep the list current. It was last updated on November 4, 2007 and is comprehensive once again.

Sean

[wexy56]

We have to add Felix Heredia.

[Mattingly]

Miguel Cairo

[west coast orange and black]

are there any players who played for both teams while both teams shared shea stadium for home games during the renovation of yankee stadium?

[RuthMayBond]

are there any players who played for both teams while both teams shared shea stadium for home games during the renovation of yankee stadium?

What year(s) was that?

[west coast orange and black]

'75 is my guess.
wait: '74 and '75.
no... wait...

shoot. well, those are my guesses, rhumba man.

[RuthMayBond]

Bill Sudakis? Jack Aker, Dave Kingman, Doc Medich were close.

[YankeesChick]

What year(s) was that?

They shared the stadium from 1974-1975

[BasEbaLlKnoItAll]

After this thread was originally posted someone provided a similar list of Yankees and Red Sox in this thread. Appears that is now gone. Anyone have any idea where it was moved to?

[RuthMayBond]

After this thread was originally posted someone provided a similar list of Yankees and Red Sox in this thread. Appears that is now gone. Anyone have any idea where it was moved to?

Maybe it was moved here

http://www.baseball-reference.com/fr...t=Find+Players

[BasEbaLlKnoItAll]

Maybe it was moved here

http://www.baseball-reference.com/fr...t=Find+Players

Wow, thanks a lot, lots of help here.

[VIBaseball]

are there any players who played for both teams while both teams shared shea stadium for home games during the renovation of yankee stadium?

I don't think anybody was both a Met and Yankee during the two shared years.

Here is a favorite trivia question of mine:

There are six men who have hit regular-season homers at Shea Stadium as members of both the Mets and Yankees. Name them.

[Brooklyn]

I don't think anybody was both a Met and Yankee during the two shared years.

Here is a favorite trivia question of mine:

There are three men who have hit regular-season homers at Shea Stadium as members of both the Mets and Yankees. Name them.

Might want to move this to trivia.

The only player I can think of that was on the Yankees in 74/75 and played on the Mets is Elliot Maddux. Not much of a HR hitter, but might have dinged one for both teams.

[VIBaseball]

Maddox is one.

I think this particular question is on topic here, though it would certainly be at home under trivia. I have posted it there, with a correction -- there are six guys who've achieved this feat, not three.

[Dalkowski110]

Didn't Ron Swoboda also do it? And what about Jose Vizcaino? How about Strawberry?

[Dodgerfan1]

Lee Mazzilli?

[sultanofswat3]

Didn't Ron Swoboda also do it? And what about Jose Vizcaino? How about Strawberry?

Swoboda's last year was 73...

[Dalkowski110]

You're right...I thought he played a few games in '74, but was wrong.

[Cowtipper]

Here are some more guys that should be on that list:

Darren Bragg (Mets: 2001, Yankees: 2001)
Wilson Delgado (Mets: 2004, Yankees: 2000)
Octavio Dotel (Mets: 1999, Yankees: 2006)
Scott Erickson (Mets: 2004, Yankees: 2006)
Orlando Hernandez (Mets: 2006-, Yankees: 1998-2004)
Matt Lawton (Mets: 2001, Yankees: 2005)
Ricky Ledee (Mets: 2006-2007), Yankees: 1998-2000)
Terrence Long (Mets: 1999, Yankees: 2006)
Cory Lidle (Mets: 1997, Yankees: 2006)
Doug Mientkiewicz (Mets: 2005, Yankees: 2007)
CJ Nitkowski (Mets: 2001, Yankees: 2004)
Juan Padilla (Mets: 2005, Yankees: 2004)
Kelly Stinnett (Mets: 1994-1995; 2006, Yankees: 2006)

[Yankees12]

Maddox is one.

I think this particular question is on topic here, though it would certainly be at home under trivia. I have posted it there, with a correction -- there are six guys who've achieved this feat, not three.

Strawberry is definitely one (he hit a homer at Shea as a Yankee in a home game in 1998, and he might have hit some in interleague play), I'd imagine Ventura and Elliot Maddux are, and I'm going to take a few wild guesses here and say that Todd Zeile, Miguel Cairo, and John Olerud round out the category.

Naturally, all of these players had to be Yankees either during '74-'75 or from '98 to today (since the 1997 Interleague Series was played at Yankee Stadium).

(Considering I wasn't born yet during the YS renovation, and the '74 and '75 Yanks were not notable teams, I really don't know too well who was on those teams, and who on those teams played for the Mets. I wouldn't be surprised to see at least 2 of those 6 players be from that era, and not the interleague era.)

[Tacosaregood/metsguy234]

Add Andy Phillips to that list now, played a couple of games for the Mets this year.

[milladrive]

Guess we can add Brandon Knight and Xavier Nady to the list.

[Keyser Soze]

Tony Clark was one of the six players, i was at a subway series game when he hit 2 at shea as a yankee

[milladrive]

Add Gary Sheffield.

[Ralph Zig Tyko]

are there any players who played for both teams while both teams shared shea stadium for home games during the renovation of yankee stadium?

Elliot Maddox?