2012 30-Team Postseason ROM

[Turd]

Guys, I'm starting to compile the lineups for the post-season ROM.  I'm going to use a combination from couple of sites as a default, but I'm going to allow "team experts" to override that as we've done in the past.  So, if you so desire, please reply in this thread with:

8 starters
4 bench guys
2 SP
2 RP

I don't need ratings, just lineups.

For AL teams, there's no DH built into the game, but a guy like Big Papi should probably be in the lineup, so feel free to put him in and leave someone else off as the first bench player...basically pretend all AL teams are playing in an NL ballpark.

I'm working on a some other supplemental stuff to go with this ROM, but first things first, the ROM needs to get done.  The more lineups I have, the more I can get to the ratings.

Thanks! I'm going to go down the list in order that they are on the ROM, so starting with Arizona, Atlanta, Baltimore, etc...

[Turd]

P.S. I want this to be the best ROM I've done yet, and hopefully with some of the code I wrote to automate some things, I can make a yearly ROM update a reality.

[BeefMaster]

Minnesota

Denard Span
Ben Revere
Joe Mauer
Josh Willingham
Justin Morneau
Trevor Plouffe
Jamey Carroll
Alexi Casilla

Ryan Doumit
Darin Mastroianni
Brian Dozier
Chris Parmelee

Scott Diamond
Sam Deduno or Cole DeVries
Jared Burton
Glen Perkins

Doumit usually starts, but they run a rotation of Morneau, Mauer, and Doumit at C/1B/DH, and this lineup is NL-friendly.  If you want to work him in, bench Casilla and leave them short a middle infielder (although it's not bad to have Doumit as a strong bat off the bench).  Pedro Florimon replaced Dozier on the roster for the last month and a half of the season, so if you're trying to reflect how they ended the year and not the season as a whole, you could do the same.

This is a surprisingly decent team - decent lineup (speed on top, power in the middle), great relievers, and while the starting pitching is what killed the Twins this year, picking just two is at least not a complete disaster.

[fathedX]

2012 Colorado Rockies

CF  Fowler
2B  Rutledge
LF  Gonzalez
SS  Tulowitzki
1B  Pacheco
C  Rosario
RF  Cuddyer
3B  Nelson

SP  Pomeranz
SP  Chacin
RP  Belisle
RP  Betancourt

PH  Helton
PH  Colvin
PH  LeMahieu
PH  Young

Of course, with the myriad of injuries, this crew never actually played together.  However, it represents players that played a lot in 2012 and look to be part of the team for next year.

[Turd]

Perfect, tthanks guys.  And fatty, that's quite ok...I think it's good to keep it realistic, but at the same time a Rockies fan will probably have more fun with this lineup, and it's a believable one, so it works.

[TβG]

1 MTrout CF
2 Hunter RF
3 Pujols 1B
4 KMorls 3B (really DH)
5 Trumbo LF
6 Kendrk 2B
7 EAybar SS
8 Iannta C
9 Pitcher

B1 VWells
B2 Calspo
B3 MIztrs
B4 BWlson

SP1 CJWlsn
SP2 JWeavr
RP1 SDowns
RP2 Frieri

you can substitute Peter Bourjos for Bobby Wilson if you want more excitement.

[fightonusc]

SF Giants

CF - Pagan
2B - Scutaro
3B - Sandoval
C - Posey
RF - Pence
LF - Nady
1B - Belt
SS - Crawford

Bench - Blanco
Bench - Arias
Bench - Theriot
Bench - Sanchez

SP - Cain
SP - Bumgardner
RP - Romo
CL - Lopez

[fightonusc]

LA Dodgers

2B - M. Ellis
LF - Victorino
1B - Gonzalez
CF - Kemp
SS - Ramirez
RF - Ethier
3B - Cruz
C - AJ Ellis

BENCH - Rivera
BENCH - Gordon
BENCH - Kennedy
BENCH - Abreau

SP - Kershaw
SP - Capuano
RP - Belisario
RP - Jansen

[Turd]

Awesome. You don't know how much time that little effort saves me.

[fathedX]

fighton, I think you forgot the bench players for the Dodgers.

[fightonusc]

Whoops. Fixed.

[YCBMB]

CF Jay
RF Beltran
LF Holliday
1B Craig
3B Freese
C Molina
SS Furcal
2B Schumaker

B Descalso
B M Carpenter
B Berkman
B Kozma (only played a few games but the kid is going to be good)

P Wainwright
P Loshe
P Lynn
P Motte

[Turd]

Thanks, got these integrated into my docs.  Much appreciated...

[Turd]

Thanks for all the help...these are the teams in need of lineups to feed into my base ROM generator.  After that, I will go through and tweak like a boss.  Then it's onto pitching...

The AL teams are especially painful to get lineups for because I need to find an appropriate NL lineup  for them. A lot of times I'll put the DH in a spot even though he might not play 1B or whatever just to get him in, since RBI doesn't have fielding attributes anyways.

New York Mets
New York Yankees
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Tampa Bay
Toronto
Washington

[fightonusc]

I'll fire up Baseball-Reference and try to nail down some of these teams.

[Turd]

Yeah, I use a combo of MLBDepthCharts.com, BR's team pages, and BR's common batting order  pages...I tried to only include guys who are still on the team at the end of the season, so Alex Gonzalez on the Dodgers instead of the Sox, etc...

Thanks for stepping up, fighton...

[fightonusc]

Texas Rangers

2B – Kinsler
SS – Andrus
CF – Hamilton
3B – Beltre
1B/DH – Young (Moreland plays 1B but Young is a more of an essential hitter and plays 1B in interleague play)
RF – Cruz
C – Napoli
LF – Murphy

BENCH – Moreland
BENCH – Gentry
BENCH – Soto
BENCH - Snyder

SP – Harrison
SP – Darvish
RP – Ross
RP – Nathan

[fightonusc]

San Diego Padres


RF – Denorfia
2B – Forsythe
SS – Cabrera
3B – Headley
LF – Quentin
C – Grandal
1B – Alonso
CF – Maybin

BENCH – Venable
BENCH – Amarista
BENCH – Baker
BENCH – Kotsay

SP – Richard
SP – Volquez
RP – Gregerson
CL – Street

[fightonusc]

Oakland As

CF – Crisp
SS – Drew
LF – Cespedes
1B – Moss
RF – Reddick
3B – Donaldson
C – Norris
2B – Pennington

BENCH – Gomes
BENCH – Smith
BENCH – Rosales
BENCH – Kottaras

SP – Parker
SP – Milone
RP – Blevins
CL – Balfour

[Turd]

Awesome, only a few more to go.