Your dream roster for your favorite team

ooh a platoon in LF, I like it. Again with the Closer argument, there is a lot of talk about a "closer mentality", we can't doubt Aguilera (though if you want to argue Nathan that's fine) closing ability. I could go setup for Santana, but then I wonder if Nathan would be better in that role as well, we could also argue Reardon. With three legit closers in the bullpen, I don't know if I go Santana over any of them. What a good problem to have.

tpeichel said:

Hmm, Santana was awesome in the pen. If he is going to be in the pen,I'd have him close though. I think I'd stick with Oliva's bat in the OF. He did win a Gold GLove in 1966 when he had good knees and with Puckett and Winfield you have thirteen gold gloves between them so I wouldn't be concerned about outfield defense. With Winfield's arm, I think you want him in RF with Oliva in left. Torii is a great late-inning defensive replacement. Now that I think about it, what might be ideal is a platoon. Here are the splits: Oliva -vs- right handers (.319/.372/.518) Hunter -vs- left handers (.290/.353/.489)

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Updated my team, went with the Oliva/Hunter platoon as suggested, and added another with thome/goslin. also added batting orders

muskiesfan said:

I had a lot of fun with this, but it was awfully difficult. A lot of good players get left off.

Compose a 25 man roster for your favorite team. It has to be made up of players that actually played for that team.

Here is the one I did for the Reds. I must have changed it 10+ times and still keep thinking I need to make some changes. :lol: I thought about dropping a pitcher or two to add some more people to the bench.

C Johnny Bench
1B Ted Kluszewski
2B Joe Morgan
SS Barry Larkin
3B Pete Rose
RF Frank Robinson
CF Ken Griffey, Jr.
LF Adam Dunn

Bench
C Ernie Lombardi
OF Vada Pinson
IF Brandon Phillips
IF Dave Concepcion


SP Eppa Rixey
SP Tom Browning
SP Bucky Walters
SP Paul Derringer
SP Tony Mullane

RP Clay Carroll
RP John Franco
RP Joe Nuxhall
RP Rob Dibble
RP Pedro Borbon
RP Rawly Eastwick
RP Aroldis Chapman
RP Danny Graves

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Great concept for a thread. I'd have to think about it for a while.

Looking at yours though made me think one thing. Is the Reds pitching that historically bad?

Super Mario said:

Great concept for a thread. I'd have to think about it for a while.

Looking at yours though made me think one thing. Is the Reds pitching that historically bad?

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I didn't even read others posts that closely, but reading your comment to his made me think of something...
Where's Tom Seaver?

I'll play

1B- Jimmie Foxx
2B- Dustin Pedroia
SS- Joe Cronin
3B- Wade Boggs
LF- Ted Williams
CF- Carl Yastrzemski (young Yaz could and did play some CF )
RF- Dwight Evans
C- Carlton Fisk
DH- David Ortiz

Bench
Manny Ramirez OF
Fred Lynn OF
Jim Rice OF
Bobby Doerr IF
Nomar Garciaparra IF
Jason Varitek C

SP
Babe Ruth
Pedro Martinez
Roger Clemens
Cy Young
Smokey Joe Wood

RP
Dennis Eckersley
Curt Schilling
Lefty Grove
Jon Lester
Luis Tiant

Coaching Staff
Manager- Terry Francona
Pitching Coach- John Farrell
Bench Coach- Bill Carrigan

Reds have had unfortunate luck in drafting and raising pitching talent.

If you have some time you should check out Maloney. He was out of baseball by the time he was 31 but was a shutout machine in his early 20s.

What could have been.

The Cardinal fans have the luxury of adding pitchers like Cy Young, John Smoltz and Fernando Valenzuela to their list, if someone chose to.

I'd have to think about that more, but that's just some rare, little time played, players that were on the roster. As was Bobby Bonilla.

C Ivan Rodriguez
1B Jeff Bagwell
2B Craig Biggio
SS Dickie Thon
3B Ken Caminiti
RF Hunter Pence
CF Cesar Cedeno
LF Lance Berkman

Bench
C Brad Ausmus
OF Luis Gonzalez
IF Joe Morgan
IF Bill Doran


SP Nolan Ryan
SP Roger Clemens
SP Randy Johnson
SP Andy Pettitte
SP Curt Schilling

RP Billy Wagner
RP Mike Hampton
RP Roy Oswalt
RP Shane Reynolds
RP Daryl Kile
RP Larry Dierker
RP Joe Neikro
RP JR Richard

Wow, this is hard to do. I'm assuming this would be in Playoff or world series type situations where Starting Pitchers would be used as middle relievers.

My All-Time St. Louis Cardinals team.




Mgr - Tony LaRussa (HOF)

C - Yadier Molina
1B - Albert Pujols
2B - Rogers Hornsby (HOF)
SS - Ozzie Smith (HOF)
3B - Scott Rolen
RF - Lou Brock (HOF)
CF - Curt Flood
LF - Stan Musial (HOF)

Bench
C - Ted Simmons
OF - Joe Medwick (HOF)
OF - Enos Slaughter (HOF)
IF - Frankie Frisch (HOF)
IF - Joe Torre (HOF)

SP - Bob Gibson (HOF)
SP - Dizzy Dean (HOF)
SP - Steve Carlton (HOF)
SP - Chris Carpenter
SP - Cy Young (HOF)

RP - Adam Wainwright
RP - Bruce Sutter (HOF)
RP - Bob Forsch
RP - Grover Cleveland Alexander (HOF)
RP - Jesse Haines (HOF)
RP - Burleigh Grimes (HOF)
RP - Hoyt Wilhelm (HOF)


Went with the original posts format, but I took one relief pitcher, and added one man to my bench, and added a manager as well. And whether they are in the Hall of Fame.


What do you guys think?

Super Mario said:

My All-Time St. Louis Cardinals team.




Mgr - Tony LaRussa (HOF)

C - Yadier Molina
1B - Albert Pujols
2B - Rogers Hornsby (HOF)
SS - Ozzie Smith (HOF)
3B - Scott Rolen
RF - Lou Brock (HOF)
CF - Curt Flood
LF - Stan Musial (HOF)

Bench
C - Ted Simmons
OF - Joe Medwick (HOF)
OF - Enos Slaughter (HOF)
IF - Frankie Frisch (HOF)
IF - Joe Torre (HOF)

SP - Bob Gibson (HOF)
SP - Dizzy Dean (HOF)
SP - Steve Carlton (HOF)
SP - Chris Carpenter
SP - Cy Young (HOF)

RP - Adam Wainwright
RP - Bruce Sutter (HOF)
RP - Bob Forsch
RP - Grover Cleveland Alexander (HOF)
RP - Jesse Haines (HOF)
RP - Burleigh Grimes (HOF)
RP - Hoyt Wilhelm (HOF)


Went with the original posts format, but I took one relief pitcher, and added one man to my bench, and added a manager as well. And whether they are in the Hall of Fame.


What do you guys think?

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I'm with you with the exception of Flood. Has to be Edmonds in CF.

Mozzie22 said:

I'm with you with the exception of Flood. Has to be Edmonds in CF.

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I was conflicted on a few of them. I tried and tried to find someone who was better at 3B, but in my opinion, Rolen is the best 3B option, so I went with it.

CF was difficult too. If I had to change one thing, Edmonds would be inserted there. But I would bump Flood off entirely, because I'm not taking Slaughter off for Flood.

Bumping for baseball season.

C - Pudge
1B - Chris Davis
2B - Michael Young
3B - Beltre
SS - Arod (the version that mashed for the Rangers of course)
LF - Choo (need the Leadoff OBP)
CF - Josh Hamilton
RF - Ruben Sierra
DH - Juan Gonzalez

SPs
Nolan Ryan
Yu Darvish
Bert Blyleven
Fergie Jenkins
Kenny Rogers (loved how fast he always pitched)

Bench
C - Jim Sundberg (think that's spelled right)
IF - Elvis
IF - Mark Macklemore
IF - Palmeiro
IF - Mark Teixeira
OF - Craig Gentry (speed and defense)
OF - Rusty Greer

Pen
Joe Nathan
Neftali Feliz (before we messed him up by trying to make him a starter)
John Wettland
Eric Gagne (I think he joined us briefly)

I think they could get by with just four relievers, plus the rangers kinda have a history of suck in the pitching department. I'm sure I messed something up but I'm fairly young to so the older teams are not immediately in my mind



Ogando, Michael Young, Leonys Martin and all Texas Rangers

When a ton of people reply to this thread we should have some sort of vote to determine who everyone thinks would win a 7 game series.