Staiger batted a respectable .252 for the Mets, with 31 hits over 123 at-bats, with a couple of homers, 16 runs scored and eleven runs batted in exactly 40 games.
The previous season he had some substantial time in Queens, playing in 95 games, ending up with a .220 batting average based on 67 hits over 304 at-bats with career-highs in runs (23) and RBI’s (26).
After a trade to the New York Yankees for Sergio Ferrer in the off-season, he’d end up playing four more season of pro ball, all in the Yankees system, though he did appear in four games during the 1979 season, collecting three hits in 11 at-bats for a .273 average.
That would be all for his MLB tenure though, as he would end up with a batting average of .228, with 104 hits in 457 at-bats over 152 games in his four-year career.
