"Then there was the drudgery of keeping the data fresh. At some point, the work here became less about the Mets and more about chronicling whichever 13th reliever the Mets had up for the day. By the time he's entered in, he's gone, and I'm like anyone else looking up what number the next one is wearing on Mets.com. In a few days or weeks I've forgotten these guys even existed"
"The new owner intends to refashion it, which is nice, but it leaves the uni-number data in some uncertainty. In case you don't know I moved that info from here to UMDB several years ago and I still manually maintain that part of it. It's not clear if that be the case in the future."
"There's been a confluence of events that's kept me away, and laziness/real job is only part of it. Like the Mets I sort of petered out at the end of last season. I was never expecting anything along the lines of 2024 but that was a rotten season for the Mets who somehow both sucked and underachieved simultaneously. They gave up when I did."
The Mets endured a rotten 2024 season, simultaneously performing poorly and underachieving. Keeping uniform-number data current became drudgery as numerous transient relievers cycled through the roster. Obscure players became ephemeral and lost individual narratives, straining memory and record-keeping. Ongoing uni-number retirements created dissonance because team practices and purposes differ. The Ultimate Mets Database is being transferred after 25 years, and the new owner plans to refashion the site, leaving uniform-number data uncertain. The uniform-number information was moved to UMDB years ago and remains manually maintained. Retirement of the project is under consideration, but a website redesign and renewed effort are planned.
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