In the
initial installment of this post, I offered up a definition of the phrase
flash in the pan as someone who gets off to a promising start but can't sustain it. The 3 players discussed in Part 1 of this post fit the most commonly used definition of the term. Víctor Díaz, Anderson Hernández, and Juan Padilla all enjoyed a brief burst of success, but none lasted very long in the majors. All players in both parts of this post played for the 2005 New York Mets ballclub.
The 3 players I will write about in Part 2 were different than the 3 discussed in Part 1. They all enjoyed longer major league careers than Díaz, Hernández, and Padilla. Even the initial success they enjoyed was bigger and lasted longer. Still, they all failed to live up to their initial fanfare but were interesting stories nonetheless.
