Unofficial fan project
Destination 04 1986 · Shea Stadium
The MetsTime Machine
The Dream Season. They won 108 games, argued with each other, terrified opponents, and needed the craziest Game 6 comeback to win it all.
Pick a year
Pick your route
More than a timeline.
Start with a year, a player, a game, or one of the decisions that made Mets history so strange.
Time Machine
Every year, including the ugly ones. Pick a season and see what actually happened.
Take a look →02Mets Legends
The stars, the cult heroes, the heartbreakers, and the guys Mets fans still argue about.
Take a look →03Moments & Records
The catches, collapses, comebacks, and weirdness you cannot explain to non-Mets fans.
Take a look →04Build a Roster
Build the team you wish the front office had built.
Take a look →Featured stop
The Dream Season
They won 108 games, argued with each other, terrified opponents, and needed the craziest Game 6 comeback to win it all.
Go to 1986Inside the archive
Every side of the story.
Some pages are about the good stuff. Others are about the trades, collapses, and decisions that still make fans angry.
How It Began
A brand-new team, a terrible first season, and a fan base that showed up anyway.
↗02Mets Firsts
The first win, first homer, first no-hitter—and the first time the Mets made history by accident.
↗03Strangest Moments
The stuff that sounds made up until you check the box score.
↗04Trades & Signings
The deals that made fans celebrate, panic, or ask what the front office was thinking.
↗05Player Profiles
The careers, peaks, injuries, and moments people still bring up.
↗06Awards & Honors
The numbers, plaques, and honors that show who actually mattered.
↗07Ballparks & Uniforms
Polo Grounds, Shea, Citi, racing stripes, black jerseys, and the Apple.
↗Featured legend
Tom Seaver
Seaver was the first great Met—and the reason the franchise started to believe it could become something. The player pages tell his story, along with Wright, Doc, deGrom, Strawberry, and the names you selected.
See the player listInteractive feature
Build your all-time Mets roster.
Pick the lineup, rotation, bullpen, bench, and manager. Then see if your team is actually better than the ones the Mets gave us.
Build the teamAbout this project
Built by a Mets fan, for Mets fans.
The Mets Time Machine started as a portfolio project by Eli and grew into a place for the seasons, players, games, and front-office decisions that people still argue about. The goal is simple: tell Mets history with facts, detail, and an actual point of view—not like a team press release.
This is an unofficial fan project. It is not connected to the New York Mets or Major League Baseball.
Sources & credits
Where the facts came from.
Records, statistics, rosters, awards, and season results were checked against the sources below. Each season page also links to more reading.
The Citi Field photo is public domain through Wikimedia Commons. The logo and main time-machine artwork were created for this project.