Best player missing from the game???

[lancemeister2006]

Isn't that more a function of the fact that, aside from the Cubs, most players currently in the majors who aren't #8 hitters have more pop in their bats then they did 15 or 20 years ago?  There just aren't many guys with under 10 HRs a year who are major league regulars who hit well enought to bat first.
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Very good point...that's definitely true.  Although there are still a lot of managers who put crappy hitters at the top of the lineup just because they're fast.  If you ask me, put your best OBP guy at the top of the order while still keeping your big boppers at the 3 and 4 spot.  For example, any team but the Yankees should be batting Bobby Abreu first in the lineup.  He gets on base half the time, so why not.  Now on the Yankees, he's better fitted for the 2 or 3 spot, simply because Johnny Damon is such a great leadoff hitter...but almost any other team, I'd honestly hit him first.

[lancemeister2006]

Screw it, I still don't know how to make those quotes work where it shows up in the special writing and fonts and crap so you know it's a quote.  Mine up there shows up as if I wrote it, and not a quote.  Screw it.

[RedBarron]

click the quote button from the post you want to quote

[ericdavisfan]

Dave Kingman ... I love this line .210 35HR 94RBI 126Ks.  That was in 86. Your standard one dimensional RBI dominator.  And an asshole to boot

We could have also used Rob Deer, Mike Pagliarulo, Steve Balboni, Pete Incaviglia, Cory Snyder ... you could make a whole team out these long ball stiffs that werent in the game. 

One guy I'm surprised nobody has mentioned yet is Mike Greenwell.  I think we could use him a little better than stinkbath sullivan

This is a great post.  I'd love to have Rob Deer on the AM team.

[RedBarron]

wow, i smell a new ROM.

[camuyarenas]

In Boston, Greenwell instead of Sullivan and Oil Can Boyd instead of Schiraldi

In California, John Candelaria instead of Doug Corbett

In Detroit, Frank Tanana or Mike Henneman instead of Eric King

Others who could have been considered as All Stars: from '87 NL: Hubie Brooks for Al Pedrique, Juan Samuel for John Kruk

AL: '86 Tony Bernazard or Frank White for Willie Randolph (more punch), '87 Carlton Fisk for Bill Schroeder, '87 Danny Tartabull for Julio Franco,'87 Mark Langston for Jimmy Key.

[TimTeufel]

How about Johnny Bench??

[TβG]

well, let's see... he retired after the 1983 season.  so i would say he wasn't included in the national league all-star team becuase he had been retired for a few years before the game came out.  the all-star team is (mostly) based on the 1987 mid-summer classic roster.