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MLB: 8 of baseball’s most infamous one-year wonders

By Ryan Morik

DETROIT - SEPTEMBER 3: Joel Zumaya #54 of the Detroit Tigers pitches against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim on September 3, 2006 at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan. Los Angeles won the game 2-1. (Photo By Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
DETROIT - SEPTEMBER 3: Joel Zumaya #54 of the Detroit Tigers pitches against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim on September 3, 2006 at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan. Los Angeles won the game 2-1. (Photo By Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) /
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Mike Jacobs of the New York Mets bats during 2-1 loss to the San Francisco Giants at SBC Park in San Francisco, Calif. on Saturday, August 27, 2005. (Photo by Kirby Lee/Getty Images)
Mike Jacobs of the New York Mets bats during 2-1 loss to the San Francisco Giants at SBC Park in San Francisco, Calif. on Saturday, August 27, 2005. (Photo by Kirby Lee/Getty Images) /

Mike Jacobs

.310/.375/.710, 11 HR, 23 RBI in first 30 games in 2005

A late-season call up, Mike Jacobs hit a three-run home run in his first big league at bat, and he had seven hits, four of them home runs, in his first 13 at bats. The Mets narrowly missed the postseason that season, but Jacobs was a leader of the charge in that great 2006 season, right?

Well, wrong. The Mets knew something, and they traded him, Yusmeiro Petit, and Grant Psomas to the Marlins for Carlos Delgado. While Jacobs did hit a career-high 32 home runs in 2008, nothing came close to his first season in the big leagues. He owned a .770 OPS for the rest of this career. He even made a return to the Mets in 2010, but that was a short-lived stint, playing just seven games that season. He retired in 2012.

All while the guy who the Mets got in that deal was awesome. In his three full years as a Met (he only played 26 games in the final year of his career), he put up an .854 in his age 34-36 seasons, hitting 100 home runs and driving in 316 runs in that span.

Looks like the Mets won that trade.

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