2005 All Star Rosters

[Shooty]

If a ROM is going to be made with 2 All Star teams, what would the rosters be?  Here' my proposed teams (based on having one representative from each team not making the finals):

   AL   NL
C   Rodriguez   Matheny
1B   Teixiera   D.Lee
2B   Soriano   Utley
SS   Tejada   Reyes
3B   Chavez   Ramirez
OF   Crawford   Abreu
OF   Ichiro   Bay
OF   Sizemore   Cabrerra

P   Halladay   Willis
P   Santana   Martinez
P   Wickman   Cordero
P   Ryan   Turnbow (or Hoffman)

B   Roberts   Helton
B   Hafner   Griffey
B   Sweeney   Kent
B   Sexson   Glaus

The only Pedriq-like guy would be Matheny.  I'm sure you could add Bonds in there to cover SF, but A) he did nothign this year and B) most NL catchers are useless anyway so Matheny ain't that bad of a choice.

[Stock]

Just a suggestion, but why not Piazza for Matheny.  He did go yard 19 times this year and bat over 250.

[Shooty]

Just a suggestion, but why not Piazza for Matheny.  He did go yard 19 times this year and bat over 250.

You could, but you'd have to then find someone else on SF to take a roster position.  Besides Bonds, who would you put in?  And then who would you bump for Bonds?  And Piazza would make for 3 Mets, which is too much in my opinion.  And Piazza's numbers are only slightly better than Matheny...certainly not enough to warrant such moves in my opinion.

[Stock]

My bad.  Didn't reallize you were trying to rep every team.

[fathedX]

I'd love to see Griffey on there.  Of course, I'd like to see Bonds too.  I guess I'm just a fan of the big names.  Other than that, I think the lineups are very well done.

[ultimate7]

I would have Cabrera in the starting lineup

[Shooty]

In my mind Griffey is interchangable with Dunn.  I would have no preference either way.  Both are worthy of inclusion.  And whoever it is, maybe they can sit on the bench and make way for Cabrerra in the starting line up.

Other guys I thought of including but just didn't have space:
Sexson
Delgado
M.Young
D.Wright
B.Wagner
J.Rollins
C.Lee
C.Lee

[RedBarron]

michael barrett is a decent choice if you have to have a catcher.


what about neifi perez?

[Shooty]

michael barrett is a decent choice if you have to have a catcher.


what about neifi perez?

Wrong.

No.

[fathedX]

I would suggest Griffey on the bench and Cabrera in the starting lineup.

[Shooty]

lineups updated to reflect input from the pundits/wags

[RedBarron]

michael barrett is a decent choice if you have to have a catcher.


what about neifi perez?

Wrong.

No.

video game wise, barrett is better than matheny.

neifi is better than everyone.  he is the ultimate7 of the mlb world.

[JoeDirt]

Why are we stuck on including a rep from all teams?  RBI didn't do that...I think the best players should be the ones who make the cut.

[Shooty]

Why are we stuck on including a rep from all teams?  RBI didn't do that...I think the best players should be the ones who make the cut.

They included members from at least 8 teams...meaning full representation inthe NL and 2 teams lacking in the AL.  Why else is Pedriq and Schroeder in the game?

[Stock]

Yes, but they only had 26 teams to deal with back then.  It's a lot tougher to try to represent every team now with so many damn teams and only 16 roster spots per team.

[JoeDirt]

I'm just saying that if they wanted to use every team, they would have.  They could have easily added Mark Langston, who won 19 games and struck out 262 for the M's in 1987.  And if they just loved a rotation of Key and Saberhagen--Alvin Davis hit 29 bombs with 100 rbi and .295 ave (power numbers back then).

And Sierra had 30 hrs and 109 rbi that year for Texas...and Charlie Hough won 18 games and SO 223.


And, man--just looking at these stats--I wish they had Rickey Henderson in the NES version.  He only had 358 abs (with 80 walks, mind you), but he still managed to hit 17 hrs, steal 41 bases, and hit .291. 

Can you imagine what he'd be like on RBI, given the fact that RBI tends to "project" how a player's stats would be if he kept that same pace for an entire season (Lindeman, for example)?

[Attezzobal]

Alvin Davis hit 29 bombs with 100 rbi and .295 ave (power numbers back then).

In 1987 the American League had 30 more homers than they did in 2004.

[TbT]

Alvin Davis hit 29 bombs with 100 rbi and .295 ave (power numbers back then).

In 1987 the American League had 30 more homers than they did in 2004.

joe was right about the number...its just that the ball was juiced up that year.

[Attezzobal]

Alvin Davis hit 29 bombs with 100 rbi and .295 ave (power numbers back then).

In 1987 the American League had 30 more homers than they did in 2004.

joe was right about the number...its just that the ball was juiced up that year.

I was also right about my number. What's your point?

My point is 29 home runs than was no different than 29 home runs last year.

[Gerlost]

Though if the AL had fewer teams in 87 and still hit more HRs, then 29 would seem less valuable, since there were fewer players but bigger numbers.