...what would the All Star teams look like? Assuming players from all teams are eligable and using the same classic RBI rules such as:
* no more than 3 players for any one team
* the player's career as well as current year stats are taken into consideration;
these are my teams:
NL
SS Garciaparra ChC
OF Beltran Hou
1B Pujols StL
OF Bonds SF
OF Sosa ChC
3B Beltre LA
2B Kent Hou
C Piazza MYM
B Helton Col
B Thome Phi
B Podsednik Mil
B Sexson Ari
P Johnson Ari
P Schmidt SF
P Smoltz Atl
P Gagne LA
AL
OF Ichiro Sea
2B Soriano Tex
3B Rodriquez NYY
OF Guerrero Ana
OF Ramirez Bos
SS Tejada Bal
1B Delgado Tor
C Rodriguez Det
B Ordonez Chi
B Thomas ChW
B Jeter NYY
B Crawford TB
P Martinez Bos
P Mulder Oak
P Foulke Bos
P Rivera NYY
Looks pretty good...but I'd say you have to factor into the equation the fact that the playoff teams do not have All Star representation because they have their own team on the game.
So maybe you'd replace:
Beltran with Dunn
Pujols with Helton (and Helton with Casey)
Beltre with A Ramirez
Kent with Vidro
Smoltz with Wagner
Gagne with Benitez
and
Arod with Mora
Guerrero with Ordonez (and Ordonez with C Lee)
Ramirez with Crawford (and Crawford with V Wells)
Jeter with Chavez
Martinez with Santana
Foulke with Nathan
Rivera with Cordero
I realize they laid a big egg when they got there, but the Twins did make the playoffs this year, so Santana and Nathan aren't eligible in your last post, either. If you were just thinking of LCS teams for some reason, you can put Smoltz and Gagne back on the NL team.
Oh yeah...duh. :-X
Your statement that part of the classic RBI rules for selecting the All-Star teams was that the "player's career as well as current year stats are taken into consideration". One of the big issues that come up when discussing the All-Star teams is how one-year flashes in the pan (Schroder? Pedriq?) could have made the starting line-up ahead of players with longer histories of playing well.
Also, you seem to have stayed with selecting a player from every team. As we all should know, the RBI programmers didn't do this when selecting their All-Stars teams. If we are going by "classic RBI rules", we shouldn't either.
Here would be my teams, taking out players from the eight playoff teams, and limiting it to three players from any one team.
NL:
OF: Barry Bonds (SF)
OF: Bobby Abreau (Phi)
OF: Moises Alou (ChiC)
1B: Todd Helton (Col)
2B: Mark Loretta (SD)
SS: Jack Wilson (Pit)
3B: Aramis Ramirez (ChiC)
C: Jason Kendall (Pit)
Bench: Jim Thome (Phi)
Bench: Adam Dunn (Cin)
Bench: Vinny Castilla (Col)
Bench: Miguel Cabrera (Fla)
SP: Randy Johnson (Ari)
SP: Jason Schmidt (SF)
RP: Trevor Hoffman (SD)
RP: Armando Benitez (Fla)
AL:
OF: Carl Crawford (TB)
OF: Carlos Lee (ChiW)
OF: Ichiro Suzuki (Sea)
1B: Mark Teixeira (Tex)
2B: Alfonso Soriano (Tex)
SS: Miguel Tejada (Bal)
3B: Melvin Mora (Bal)
C: Ivan Rodriguez (Det)
Bench: Paul Konerko (ChiW)
Bench: Travis Hafner (Cle)
Bench: Aubrey Huff (TB)
Bench: Carlos Guillen (Det)
SP: Mark Mulder (Oak)
SP: Mark Buehrle (ChiW)
RP: Francisco Cordero (Tex)
RP: Danys Baes (TB)
... of course we should leave out anyone from seattle, right?
Adam Dunn was born to be on RBI. Hits it a mile or strikes out. Everytime.
Quote from: Baines on 11/02/04, 09:59:31 AM
Adam Dunn was born to be on RBI. Hits it a mile or strikes out. Everytime.
Dunn is Armas.