I am amazed at people that play an entire season. Well done. I play in one on-line league (World Baseball Organization) where I play 3 games a week to run my end of a complete season with 2015 carded players, and I play 6-10 games for the fun of it each week. Time to use those 6-10 games for a project.
I am about to start a project thanks to Howie Mooney, again! I am going to play a Minnesota Twins All-Star team against a mix of teams for 162 games. I picked the Twins and I limited the team to 25 players from the Minnesota franchise alone.
Starters go 5 minimum, 6 outs per reliever, injuries are in play, most rules like our tournaments. I am going to try and stick to games played for position players and IP for arms. Example: Mauer has 138 Games in 2009-so Wynegar will have to pick up 24, Neshek has 70 IP in 2007 so I will hold him to 70 IP in my project.
First, the Twins:
Catcher- 2009 Joe Mauer
First Base- 1988 Kent Hrbek
Second Base- 1977 Rod Carew
Third Base- 1961 Harmon Killebrew
Short Stop- 1965 Zoilo Versalles
Left Field- 1977 Lymon Bostock
Center Field- 1988 Kirby Puckett
Right Field- 1964 Tony Oliva
Designated Hitter- 2006 Justin Morneau
Rotation:
1973- Bert Blyleven
1966- Jim Kaat
1978- Dave Goltz
1988- Frank Viola
Spot Starter- 2004 Johann Santana
Long Relief/Injury Starter- 1991 Kevin Tapani
Pen:
2006- Joe Nathan
2007- Pat Neshek
2002- Eddie Guardado
1991- Rick Aguliera
Bench:
1988-Gary Gaetti (3B) Defensive sub for Killer
1977- Larry Hisel (PH/OF)
1988- Dan Gladden (PR/OF)
1979- Butch Wynegar (C)
2006- Michale Cuddyer (PH/OF)
2011- Tsuyoshi Nishioka (2B/SS)
Manager:
Tom Kelly
Home Field:
Metropolitan Stadium
Stadium Announcer:
Bob Casey
The Competition: 10 team "Division"
6 three game series and a two game play-off with the competition team with the best record against the Twins. Only my Twins will play 162.
1908 Chicago Cubs
1919 Chicago White Sox
1941 Boston Red Sox
1961 New York Yankees
1975 Cincinnati Reds
1986 New York Mets
1995 Cleveland Indians
2001 Oakland A's
2015 Kansas City Royals
Predictions welcome.
Jeff Reardon, Mike Marshall, Tom Brunansky, Bob Allison, Jim Perry and Camilo Pascual all weep at being left out! Except for Reardon, I can't truly quibble, though--your selections are excellent, and I hope you have a lot of fun with this! Keep us posted!
ReplyDeleteps--and Earl Battey! Earl was better than Butch!
ReplyDeleteI will let you all know how it works out.
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