Editing New York Mets (section)

====1993====
{{Main|1993 New York Mets season}}

The lowest point of the experiment was the 1993 season when the Mets lost 103 games. In April of that year, Coleman accidentally hit Gooden's shoulder with a golf club while practicing his swing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/27/sports/baseball-gooden-gets-hit-before-he-can-pitch.html|title=Baseball; Gooden Gets Hit Before He Can Pitch|last=Sexton|first=Joe|date=April 27, 1993|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=December 19, 2023}}</ref> In July, Saberhagen threw a firecracker under a table near reporters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/28/sports/baseball-saberhagen-admits-to-joke.html|title=Baseball; Saberhagan Admits to Joke|date=July 28, 1993|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=December 19, 2023}}</ref> Their young pitching prospect [[Anthony Young (baseball)|Anthony Young]] started the 1993 season at 0–13 and his overall streak of 27 straight losses over two years set a new record. After Young's record-setting loss, Coleman threw a firecracker out of the team bus window and injured three people resulting in felony charges that effectively ended his Mets career; the Mets placed him on paid administrative leave for the remainder of the season, and announced less than a month before the end of the season that he would never play for them again. Only a few days later, Saberhagen was in trouble again, this time for spraying [[bleach]] at three reporters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-11-sp-22497-story.html|title=Saberhagan Apologizes for spraying bleach|date=August 11, 1993|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=December 19, 2023}}</ref> The meltdown season resulted in the worst record for a Mets team since 1965. In addition, two of the three remaining links to the 1986 team, [[Howard Johnson (baseball)|Howard Johnson]] and [[Sid Fernandez]], departed after the season via free agency.