Your Baseball Team's All-Time Line-Up

Depending on how far back you want to go.

RSP-Walter Johnson

Never"really" played for the Natinals but if you include the Expos

Minnesota. :stuck_out_tongue:

I’ll do them, but I’ll cheat:

C Gary Carter
1B Larry Walker*
2B Jose Vidro
SS Orlando Cabrera
3B Ryan Zimmerman
OF Andre Dawson
OF Vlad Guerrero
OF Tim Raines

UT Alfonso Soriano
UT Andres Galarraga

RHP Steven Strasburg
RHP Pedro Martinez
LHP Randy Johnson

  • Yes he did

That’s the franchise.

The first Washington team (in the modern majors) is now Minnesota. The second (a 60’s expansion) is now Texas. The current team was Montreal.

Anyone is welcome to argue about this, but we’ve got no Cleveland/Baltimore/Indianapolis deals in this league; the A’s are Philly/KC/Oakland, the Brewers are Seattle/Milwaukee, the Orioles are Milwaukee/St Louis/Baltimore, etc, etc, etc.

ARod is a much better player than Nettles.

Not too hard to do my Royals:

C - Darrell Porter
1B - Mike Sweeney
2B - Frank White
SS - Fred Patek
3B - George Brett
LF - Willie Wilson
CF - Amos Otis
RF - Danny Tartabull
DH - Hal McRae. Sorry you don’t like the DH, but Hal did that job for the Royals for a dozen years, I will not shuffle him to the position-less “bench.” It’s been part of major league baseball for 3 dozen years. Live with it already.

RHSP - Bret Saberhagen
LHSP - Paul Splittorff
RP - Dan Quisenberry

Bench - John Mayberry
Bench - Carlos Beltran
Bench - Bo Jackson, just so we could watch him play. Though stat-wise, Johnny Damon or Jermaine Dye would probably be better choices.

Boston Red Sox

There are many greats for some positions and not many for others. Going without the sentimental vote, here’s my list…

C - Jason Varitek
1B - Carl Yastrzemski
2B - Dustin Pedroia – current player. I can’t think of a better Boston 2B.
SS - Nomar Garciaparra - a healthy Nomar was splendid.
3B - Wade Boggs
OF - Jim Rice
OF - Ted Williams
OF - Dwight Evans
DH - David Ortiz – without him, Red Sox fans are still staying, “Wait till next year.”

RHSP - Pedro Martinez
LHSP - Bruce Hurst
RP - Jonathan Papelbon

Bench - Manny Ramirez
Bench - Jimmie Foxx
Bench - Fred Lynn

No doubt, but chemistry matters too. I hate A-Rod. Nettles had a better glove and with the rest of that lineup I can forego a little offense.

It was a sacrilege. He could have managed the Cinci team from Hawaii by postcard.

Mets

SS Jose Reyes
2B Felix Millan
1B John Olerud
C Mike Piazza
RF Darryl Strawberry
CF Carlos Beltran
3B David Wright
LF Cleon Jones

SP Tom Seaver
SP Johan Santana
SP Doc Gooden
SP Jerry Koosman
SP Ron Darling

RP John Franco
RP Tug McGraw
RP Billy Wagner
RP Jesse Orosco
RP Armando Benitez

Bench: Gary Carter, Edgardo Alfonso, Ed Kranepool, Mookie Wilson, Rusty Staub,

Cheating somewhat:

Astros:

C Craig Biggio (cheat, sure. but no Brad Ausmus for you!)
1B Jeff Bagwell
2B Joe Morgan (so what?)
SS Dickie Thon (verrry slim pickings here)
3B Ken Caminiti (Doug Rader?)
LF Lance Berkman
CF Cesar Cedeno
RF Jimmy Wynn

RHP Roy Oswalt (Can’t really claim Clemens… Ryan was good but inconsistent and pitched more for the Angels anyway. J.R. Richard is the “if only” choice, Mike Scott for single-season best.)
LHP Mike Hampton (Or Randy Johnson for 1/3 season)
RP Billy Wagner

Bench: Glenn Davis, Bill Doran, Jose Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz.

Lefty Grove, surely?

He’s a big guy, but large enough to take up two roster spots? :confused:

Bobby Doerr’s in the Hall of Fame.

I think it’s very difficult to do this for the teams who have been around, and successful at both ends of, the World Series era. Take my team, the Cubs, for example. How does one really measure Johnny Evers against Ryne Sandberg? I think it’s almost impossible to do with the base statistics, given the entirely different nature of the game 80 years apart. And a team like the Giants, well, goodness, how in the world do you choose who your starting pitchers are?? :eek:

I’ve been a Yankees fan for most of my life, but the Twins were the first team I loved (mainly because Earl Battey was the first ballplayer who ever gave me an autograph!). And somebody already did the Yankees. So, I’ll do a Twins roster (without anyone who was purely a Washington Senator).

C- Joe Mauer
1B- Justin Mourneau
2B- Rod Carew
SS- Zoilo Versalles
3B- Harmon Killebrew
LF- Bobby Allison
CF- Kirby Puckett
RF- Tony Oliva
DH- Kent Hrbek

P- Johan Santana
P- Bert Blyleven
P- Jim Kaat
P- Frank Viola
P- Jim Perry

RP- Rick Aguilera
RP- Ron Perranoski

Manager- Ron Gardenhire (just over Tom “I Won Two World Series, What More Do You Want, Astorian???” Kelly)

Minnesota Twins/Washington Senators

C- Joe Mauer
1B- Kent Hrbek
2B- Rod Carew
3B- Gary Gaetti
SS- Greg Gagne
LF- Torri Hunter
CF- Kirby Puckett
RF- Tony Oliva

RHP- Walter Johnson
LHP- Johan Santana
Reliever- Joe Nathan

I included the Senators just so I could have The Big Train as the pitcher (Blyleven as a starter would be good, too, or Jim Kaat). The only real toss-ups are CF (it has to be Kirby, but Hunter deserves a spot), and reliever (Rick Aguilera was good in the early 90s, but I think Nathan has been top for 6 seasons now). I don’t know much about the Washington teams except that Washington was 1st in war, 1st in peace, and last in the American League, which is why the Twins (rightfully) dominate this line-up.

ETA: Beaten to the punch on the Twins by astorian! I didn’t realize Killebrew was a 3B, so I’d switch him in there, and I only go with Hrbek over Morneau because he’s a local guy, and has 2 rings. Give me Kelly as manager, too, please.

OK, I’ll try the Brewers.
1B - Prince Fielder
2B - Jim Gantner -
SS - Robin Yount - easiest choice in this thread
3B - Paul Molitor
LF - Ryan Braun
CF - Gorman Thomas
RF - Hank Aaron (Cheating, yes)
C - BJ Surhoff

P - Pete Vuckovich
P - Ben Sheets
P - Teddy Higuera
P- Jim Slaton
P- Mike Caldwell

Reliever - Rollie Fingers, Dan Plesac

Yeesh, not much pitching to work with. Vuckovich won a Cy Young, and Caldwell had a couple good seasons, but most of the pitchers were 2 or 3 year wonders at most.

Gantner is the 2B by default and Fielder gets the nod barely over Cecil Cooper.

Hank Aaron gets the RF nod even though he barely played there for the Brewers. But hey, his best years were in RF in Milwaukee and give a me a break, I had to pass on Eddie Matthews and Warren Spahn.

For the Brewers, you may as well go with CC Sabathia. What he did last year was more impressive than anything I’ve ever seen from a Brewers pitcher. (mkecane: Milwaukee resident for 24 years.)