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Originally Posted by Merkle923
Two rookie cards (1963, 1964), no major league games. 405 RBI in 607 minor league games, and one of a thousand Met first base prospects and transients who got a day at the position from the day they bought Marv Throneberry through the day they traded for Keith Hernandez.
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I was getting ready to post this as I've been looking for a decent color image of this gent.
Bill Haas was one of the players acquired by the Mets in the so-called "help the poor" draft (for the Colts and Mets) in the 1963-64 off season. The Mets did get Fat Jack Fisher from the Giants in that draft, which worked out alright. Haas was a hitting prospect for the Dodgers who was expected to make the Mets major league squad. But his glove, reportedly, made Dick Stuart look like a gold glover. He was farmed out to AAA Buffalo to work on his fielding and he did improve, but then his bat fell asleep. Hitting around .180 a month into the season with ZERO RBIs, the Mets wanted to send Bill to AA Williamsport, but Bill wanted none of it and "quit"...or at least threatened to. He must have thought better of it as he did report to Williamsport in the end and remained in the system through 1966, but never did play in the majors.
Some very quick and rudimentary color correction and brightening applied.