New York Metropolitans Yearly Starters

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Year and record in Bold indicates they won pennant.

Shading is not used to differentiate the players' performances. It is merely used to quickly illustrate long strings of games/years played by a single player. When a player in the column changes, so does the color of the shading.

Most Common Starters

Year	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF
Most Years	Holbert	Orr	Forster	Hankinson	Nelson	Kennedy	Roseman	Brady
Most Games	Holbert 271 gms Reipschlager 196 gms Donahue 70 gms Sommers 31 gms Crotty 14 gms	Orr 447 gms Brady 91 gms O'Brien 20 gms O'Brien 10 gms Esterbrook 9 gms	Troy 149 gms Forster 114 gms Crane 96 gms Gerhardt 84 gms Meister 59 gms	Hankinson 357 gms Esterbrook 209 gms Reipschlager 6 gms Holbert 5 gms Cross 4 gms	Nelson 419 gms Radford 76 gms McLaughlin 63 gms Cross 13 gms Houck 10 gms	Kennedy 288 gms O'Brien 121 gms Roseman 105 gms Behel 26 gms Holbert 12 gms	Roseman 290 gms O'Rourke 76 gms Jones 50 gms Behel 33 gms Nelson 29 gms	Brady 354 gms Roseman 98 gms Nelson 44 gms Radford 36 gms Hogan 26 gms
1887 (44-89)	Holbert	Orr	Gerhardt	Hankinson	Radford	O'Brien	Jones	Nelson
1886 (53-82)	Reipschlager	Orr	Forster	Hankinson	Nelson	Roseman	Behel	Brady
1885 (44-64)	Reipschlager	Orr	Forster	Hankinson	Nelson	Kennedy	Roseman	Brady
1884 (75-32)	Holbert	Orr	Troy	Esterbrook	Nelson	Kennedy	Roseman	Brady
1883 (54-42)	Holbert	Brady	Crane	Esterbrook	Nelson	Kennedy	O'Rourke	Roseman
5 years	2 players	2 players	4 players	2 players	2 players	3 players	4 players	3 players

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