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Time Traveler Tuesdays: Mets First Basemen of the 1970s: Ed Kranepool, Kingman, Milner and a Decade of Change

Time Traveler Tuesdays: Mets First Basemen of the 1970s: Ed Kranepool, Kingman, Milner and a Decade of Change

Time Traveler Tuesdays: Mets First Basemen of the 1970s: Ed Kranepool, Kingman, Milner and a Decade of Change

Last week, we decided Ed Kranepool was the best Mets 1st baseman of the 1960s. He was a solid fielding option who could also hit for average. The 1970s, however, did not start the way Kranepool or anyone else had planned for the life-long Met. Kranepool started in 1970, probably trying way too hard, after a humbling 1969 season. The Mets organization went out and traded for a slugging first baseman in '69, Donn Clendenon, who ended up being World Series MVP. Clendenon returne

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