The New York Mets will honor Tom Seaver by wearing his No. 41 on a patch this season, the club announced Monday.
Seaver died last August at the age of 75 from complications of Lewy body dementia and COVID-19.
Seaver won 311 games in a 20-year career that included 12 years with the Mets. He is the Mets’ all-time leader in wins (198), strikeouts (2,541), shutouts (44), ERA (2.57), complete games (171) and starts (395).
The right-hander was elected to the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 1992 with what at the time was the highest percentage of votes received — 98.84 percent.
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Seaver, the National League Rookie of the Year in 1967 with New York, finished with a career record of 311-205 with a 2.86 ERA and 3,640 strikeouts. He went 198-124 with the Mets (1967-77, 1983), winning the NL Cy Young Award in 1969, 1973 and 1975.
In 2019, the Mets named the street running in front of Citi Field “41 Tom Seaver Way.”
–Field Level Media