I think my team could beat any other team there is... May 14th Manager- Dick Howser 2 WS NYY 5 pennants in 8 years Godfather of Florida State Baseball SP-"Big Ed" Walsh (HOF) 1904-1917 1st all-time ERA 1.82 SP-Roy Halladay TOR 2003 Cy Young SP-Dennis Martinez "El Presidente" 4 time AllStar 1978-1998 SP-Johnny Babich 1934-1941 SP-Brian Lawrence SD Padres 3.83 ERA LRP-Dick "Dirt" Tidrow NYY 2 WS LRP-Anthony Shumacher PHI MRP-Brad Rigby OAK/KC MRP-Takashi Kashiwada NYM MRP-Jim Crowell CIN (part of Danny Graves trade) SU-Shawn Barton SFG Cl-Dave LaRoche 126 career SVs 2 time AllStar 1B-Tony Perez (HOF) 2 WS MVP '67 28th all-time ExtraBH 2B-Joey Cora AllStar 1997 CHW/SEA 3B-Fran Mullins 1980-1986 SS-Tony Smith 1907-1911 Ca-Pat Borders TOR/HOU/CLE/SEA .256 BA UTIL-Jim Driscoll 1970-1972 LF-Hosken Powell .259 Minn 1978-1983 CF-"The Kentucky Colonel" Earle Combs (HOF) .325 BA 154 3B RF-Bob Thurman 1955-1959
My birthday team would lean heavily on Terry Pendleton, some adequite pitching...and especially Shoeless Joe Jackson...cause otherwise they are a buncha scrubs. C Norm Sherry (.215 presumably he could umpire too) 1b Bob Burda (.224 14 CAREER homers...just what you want in a first sacker) 2b Bob Peterson (.191 mostly a catcher by trade...but he played 2b a few times and I got a roster to fill) SS Howdy Caton (.226) 3b Terry Pendleton(.270 BA...1 MVP season) OF Shoeless Joe Jackson (.356 avg...95 Ribbies a year dead ball era) OF Tommy Tatum (.258...7 steals in a partial season) OF Jim Lentine (.263) SP Larry Jansen (21-5 as a rook, 122-89, 3.58 overall) SP/RP Eddie Fischer (85-70, 81 Svs, Beau for Liz Taylor) SP/RP Hi Bell (32-34, 3.69) SP William Van Landingham (27-26, 4.54) RP Art Johnson (7-16, 3.68)
Former 'Stros SS and 2-time All Star Craig Reynolds shares my birthday. As does Major League ******* and Astros killer Jim Leyritz.
My team is anchored by Whitey Ford... and not much else... SP - Whitey Ford SP - Bill Lee SP - Juan Eichelberger SP - Marc Wilkins SP - Frank Papish RP - Tim Spooneybarger C- Toby Hall 1B - Franklin Stubbs 2B - Bill Russell SS - Khalil Greene 3B - Mark Christman OF - Ted Uhlaender OF - George Bell OF - Jack Hayden
Mel Ott, Terry Steinbach and Ron Gant are the only ones worth fielding from my birthday (March 2nd). However.... Moe Berg, the Red Sox/White Sox catcher who became a spy during WWII, was born on March 2nd as well, and he counts for more than just baseball, so there!
My birthday (March 11th) was horrible. The only players of note were: OF Bobby Abreu OF Phil Bradley RP Steve Reed SP Saloman Torres
1b - Bill Buckner (.289) 2b - Craig Biggio (.287) ss - Les Bell (.290) 3b - Bobby Adams (.269) OF - John Anderson (.290) OF - Maurice Archdeacon (.333) OF - Pete Whisenant (.224) c- Charlie Hargreaves (.270) p - Lefty Tyler (2.95) p - Ben Tincup (3.10) p- Jim Roland (3.22) p - Sam Jones (3.59) p - Henry Gruber (3.67) p - Stan Baumgartner (3.70) p - Eddie Smith (3.82) With Craig Biggio as my anchor - I'm going to have to rely on my pitching and d.
From Jan. 24 Joe Cobb - career OBP of 1.000 (in 1 plate appearance), was on the Tigers with another Cobb, who had significantly more impact. George Ellison - career ERA of 0.00 (1.0 innings pitched) Johnny Dickshot - once hit .300 for a season, plus how could I not include a guy with the name Dickshot? John Briggs - his ERA jumped 11 points in 1 season. Rob Dibble - his first three years, never had an ERA over 2.09, in his last two, he didn't get under 6.48, did finish his career with a postseason ERA of 0.00 in 7 games, getting the NLCS MVP and a WS ring with CIN. Mike Glavine - was the lesser of two Glavines on the Mets in 2003
SS- Angel Berroa (.287, 17hr 73rbi last season) OF- Phil Plantier (.243, 91hr career. 93 season: .240, 34hr 100rbi) OF- John Lowenstein (.253, 116hr) OF- Bibb Falk (.314, 69hr, 784rbi) SP- Bob Emslie (44-44, 3.19 era. 32-17, 2.75era, 455.3ip in 1884) RP- Fred Heimach (62-69 4.46era) Honorable mention- Mike Overy, real name: Harry Overy Al Wickland, team mascot, 5'7", 155lbs Mother Watson Those were the only real eyecatchers.
August 24, 1978 SS - Cal Ripken Jr OF - Tim Salmon OF - Harry Hooper (HOF) That's about all i got the rest of my team are people i don't know lol
December 31: SP: Esteban Loaiza*, Brian Moehler*, Tommy Byrne (8th-best-hitting post-war pitcher**), Ted Gray, Syl Johnson -- all of them were at least decent RP: Rick Aguilera (When choosing among super-sucky players, I erred on the side of familiarity -- I actually remember being let down by Silvestre Campusano's potential as a Blue Jay fan in the 80s, so he gets a spot in place of slightly better players with 200 career ABs. Also, nobody's eligible at 1B and SS.) C: Fats Dantonio 1B: Heath Shuler* 2B: Jose Baez 3B: Bobby Byrne (#115 3B all-time**) SS: Brent Barry* LF: Jim Tracy CF: Sil Campusano RF: King Kelly (HOF; #32 RF all-time**) * born on my exact birthdate in 1971 ** from the New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract -- if anything else, this thread's a good excuse to go back through that) More on Kelly from the HBA: played 1878-1893... the first matinee idol of the Nation League... possibly invented sliding... highest-paid player for most of his career... among all players in history with 500+ games in the outfield: a) leads in assists per game by a preposterous margin (61.6 per 162 games; second place is 39.0); b) "leads" in worst fielding percentage (.820; 2nd place is .844)... played in 583 games as a catcher, and has the worst error rate of all time among catchers with 500+ games (.892; everyone else is in the .900s).
Wow, I always thought no one was born when I was (June 15): Two HOFers: Billy Williams; Wade Boggs One Future HOFer: Andy Pettitte Other notables: -Brett Butler -Dusty Baker -Tony Clark -Ramiro Mendoza -Lance Parrish And even Clyde Drexler!!! Oh wait, that's Charlie Dexter. Also the best name in all of baseball: Peek-A-Boo Veach
Hmm, well I have Ty Cobb, and......umm nobody else. I think he was known to play multiple positions wasn't he? Pugs
I could field a team, mostof whom played for a decent amount of time, but I'm lacking top end stars. My best players are Vernon Wells, Mike Mussina, and the like. Not bad, but no Babe Ruths. I did have something of a let down when it turned out that Walt Johnson wasn't just a shortened version...
At one point rated by just about everyone as the best prospect in baseball. Could do it all at a seriously top end level; run, hit, hit for power, throw, played cf like Paul Blair... Probably the biggest bust, in terms of pure talent that never put it together, that I've ever seen.
