Time to create and post up a long overdue career-capper for one of the "Amazin'" New York Mets, Al Weis, who capped off a nice 10-year Big League career with 11 games in 1971:
Weis went
0-11 at the plate over those 11 games for the Mets, also putting in time
at Second and Third at the age of 33 in what turned out to be the last
action of his Major League tenure.
He originally came up to
the Big Leagues with the Chicago White Sox in 1962, playing in the South
Side of Chicago for six years before getting traded to the Mets along
with Tommie Agee in December of 1967 for four players, including Tommy
Davis and Jack Fisher.
Never a full-time player, he'd usually
see time as a defensive replacement late in the game, or some
pinch-hitting duties, which saw him accumulate only 1763 plate
appearances over 800 games, hitting .219 with 346 hits in 1578 at-bats.
Though
he did manage to hit .296 over 135 at-bats in 1965 for the White Sox,
every other season saw him usually South of the .250 mark.
By
the time he retired, he finished with the aforementioned .219 average,
along with 195 runs scored, 115 runs batted in, seven homers and 55
stolen bases, and of course a World Championship as a member of those
historic 1969 Mets.
Not too shabby!
