Merge the Mets and Yankees?!?!?!?

jumbojohnny · Aug 14, 2009

At work we were having a discussion about the imaginary idea:

What is your team if you merged both NY teams for one team? A few things to keep this simple...

1- There will be a DH
2- Salaries dont matter (its an imaginary team)
3- No relief puitching, just a starting five and a closer
4- Only one player per position (other than pitching)
5- Assuming all players are healthy (considering most of the Mets are hurt)
6- Only using current staff, no former players.

1st Base--
2nd Base--
3rd Base--
Catcher--
Outfield
1-
2-
3-

Five Starters
1-
2-
3-
4-
5-

Closer

pujolsjunkie · Aug 14, 2009

SS - Jose Reyes
LF - Johnny Damon
1B - Mark Teixeira
DH - Alex Rodriguez
CF - Carlos Beltran
3B - David Wright
2B - Robinson Cano
RF - Nick Swisher
C - Jorge Posada

SP - Johan Santana
SP - CC Sabathia
SP - AJ Burnett
SP - Joba Chamberlain
SP - Andy Pettitte
CL - Mariano Rivera

Nikobaseball · Aug 14, 2009

The best merge of the two would be to take every player from the yankees and then get rid of every met

we'll take d. wright actually....

KOBEARODLT · Aug 14, 2009

pujolsjunkie said:
SS - Jose Reyes
LF - Johnny Damon
1B - Mark Teixeira
DH - Alex Rodriguez
CF - Carlos Beltran
3B - David Wright
2B - Robinson Cano
RF - Nick Swisher
C - Jorge Posada

SP - Johan Santana
SP - CC Sabathia
SP - AJ Burnett
SP - Joba Chamberlain
SP - Andy Pettitte
CL - Mariano Rivera

id take jeter any day of the week over reyes, even though he is older..

pujolsjunkie · Aug 14, 2009

KOBEARODLT said:
pujolsjunkie said:

SS - Jose Reyes
LF - Johnny Damon
1B - Mark Teixeira
DH - Alex Rodriguez
CF - Carlos Beltran
3B - David Wright
2B - Robinson Cano
RF - Nick Swisher
C - Jorge Posada

SP - Johan Santana
SP - CC Sabathia
SP - AJ Burnett
SP - Joba Chamberlain
SP - Andy Pettitte
CL - Mariano Rivera

Click to expand...

id take jeter any day of the week over reyes, even though he is older..

I understand someone feeling that way. I'm a Yankee fan and love Jeter, but for the purposes of this exercise, I'd take Reyes. When he's right, the guy is just electric. He's underrated. He's also far superior with the glove.

abncollectsautos · Aug 14, 2009

Short Stop- derek jeter
1st Base-- mark teixeira
2nd Base-- robinson cano
3rd Base-- david wright
Catcher-- jorge posada
center- carlos beltran
left- nick swisher
right- jeff francoeur
dh-arod

Five Starters
1- johan santana
2- aj burnett
3- cc sabathia
4- joba chamberlain
5- andy pettite

Closer-mariano rivera

matfanofold · Aug 14, 2009

pujolsjunkie said:
SS - Jose Reyes
LF - Johnny Damon
1B - Mark Teixeira
DH - Alex Rodriguez
CF - Carlos Beltran
3B - David Wright
2B - Robinson Cano
RF - Nick Swisher
C - Jorge Posada

SP - Johan Santana
SP - CC Sabathia
SP - AJ Burnett
SP - Joba Chamberlain
SP - Andy Pettitte
CL - Mariano Rivera

I think this is about as good as it gets. There may be 1 or 2 that could go eithor way, but for the most part, it's pretty clear cut on the options. Oh, and as far as Jeter.... If anyone is building this team with the future in mind, it's a no brainer to take Reyes. Even right now you would be hard pressed to convince me that Jeter is the better option for the immediate future. I just do not see anything Jeter is really better at, aside from leadership(which I personally do not believe but will give the benefit of the doubt). I'll take Reyes and his speed, glove, talent, and whole future over Jeters future any day of the week and have a better team and SS for it.

cowboysrule48 · Aug 14, 2009

I would probably put Arod at short and Wright and third...

Mighty Bombjack · Aug 14, 2009

Better idea to merge the Yankees and Red Sox. I pretty much view them as the same team anyway.

KOBEARODLT · Aug 14, 2009

matfanofold said:
pujolsjunkie said:

SS - Jose Reyes
LF - Johnny Damon
1B - Mark Teixeira
DH - Alex Rodriguez
CF - Carlos Beltran
3B - David Wright
2B - Robinson Cano
RF - Nick Swisher
C - Jorge Posada

SP - Johan Santana
SP - CC Sabathia
SP - AJ Burnett
SP - Joba Chamberlain
SP - Andy Pettitte
CL - Mariano Rivera

Click to expand...

I think this is about as good as it gets. There may be 1 or 2 that could go eithor way, but for the most part, it's pretty clear cut on the options. Oh, and as far as Jeter.... If anyone is building this team with the future in mind, it's a no brainer to take Reyes. Even right now you would be hard pressed to convince me that Jeter is the better option for the immediate future. I just do not see anything Jeter is really better at, aside from leadership(which I personally do not believe but will give the benefit of the doubt). I'll take Reyes and his speed, glove, talent, and whole future over Jeters future any day of the week and have a better team and SS for it.

jeter has a better average and comes up with clutch hits, reyes has shown me nothign so far in his career besides speed....with that said i agree with cowboys..im throwing arod at short and wright at third

UMich92 · Aug 14, 2009

I'd probably take a healthy Reyes over Jeter. But something about Reyes makes me wonder if we haven't already seen the best of him. His game is his legs and if he keeps injuring them, he's won't be the same player. And as far as ARod at SS, I'm not sure he could play there now that he has gotten much thicker and had the hip surgery.

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