{"id":65844,"date":"2025-05-30T09:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/65844\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T09:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:05:16","slug":"ny-mets-uniform-patch-honors-ed-kranepool-with-no-7-on-their-sleeves-for-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/65844\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Mets uniform patch honors Ed Kranepool with No. 7 on their sleeves for 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Mets<\/a> are honoring Ed Kranepool with a No. 7 patch on their sleeves throughout the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Kranepool, a Mets Hall of Fame and member of the 1969 World Series championship team, died at age 79 last September.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

The first baseman was the longest-tenured Met in franchise history. He debuted during the team’s inaugural season in 1962 and played with the team until 1979.<\/p>\n

\"Former<\/p>\n

Former New York Mets first baseman Ed Kranepool in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf all the stats and records Ed accomplished throughout his career, the thing he was most proud of was that he spent his entire Major League career in a Mets uniform,\u201d former teammate Art Shamsky said in a statement. \u201cEd would be touched that the team will be wearing his number seven on their uniform all year long.\u201d<\/p>\n

The square black patch with a white No. 7 will be worn on all of the Mets’ jerseys.<\/p>\n

Ed Kranepool and his Mets’ legacy<\/p>\n

The left-handed hitting Kranepool was an All-Star during the 1965 season and collected 1,418 hits \u2014 third-most in franchise history. The New York native, who appeared in a franchise record 1,853 games for the club, isalso in the club’s top 10 in doubles, RBI, walks and runs scored.<\/p>\n

Kranepool was inducted into the Mets’ Hall of Fame during the 1990 season.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: NY Mets uniform patch honors Ed Kranepool with No. 7 on sleeves<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Mets are honoring Ed Kranepool with a No. 7 patch on their sleeves throughout the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,17784,6469,17785,101,17786,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-65844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-ed-kranepool","10":"tag-franchise-history","11":"tag-inaugural-season","12":"tag-mets","13":"tag-mets-hall-of-fame","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-mets","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114595989009528935","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}