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Originally Posted by Andy
This is interesting. What's the Reds roster look like?
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Ah, yes the original Major League Baseball club...
Your "1979" Cincinnati Reds are set up thusly:
1 - LF - Mike McCormick
2 - SS - Woody Williams (the other Woody Williams)
3 - RF - Pete Rose (28 yrs old)
4 - 1B - Lee May (could've placed him comfortably on about 3 different teams)
5 - 3B - Luis Quinones
6 - CF - Gus Bell
7 - C - Jimmie Coker
8 - 2B - Drew Sutton
Bench - C - David Ross (another journeyman with many options to play for)
Bench - 1B - Deron Johnson
Bench - OF - Stan Palys
Bench - OF - Chuck Harmon
Bench - UTIL - Felipe Lopez
SP1 - Gene Schott
SP2 - Don Gullett
SP3 - Mario Soto
SP4 - Brett Tomko
SP5 - Ken Raffensberger
CL - Chris Reitsma
SU - Fred Baczewski
SU - Logan Ondrusek
MR - Paul Gehrman
MR - Jon Coutlangus
MR - Mike Anderson
MR - Alejandro Chacin
Other items of note...
A 34-year-old Hal Morris is buried behind Lee May and Deron Johnson on the depth chart. Cincy is pretty deep at catcher with Corky Miller and Jason LaRue not even making it off the reserve roster. As you might expect, Pete Rose is the highest paid Red with a salary of $24,133,200. Charlie Hustle will need to carry this club to some degree, but he's got the ratings to help with that [94/100 contact, 72/100 gap, 52/100 power, 57/100 eye, 77/100 avoid k's, 62/100 of range, 86/100 of error, 90/100 of arm].
Will this club add any other Big Red Machine pieces to go with Rose and Gullett?
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Originally Posted by pgjocki
How about those Cardinals? Going to follow because I love a good Cards/Cub rivalry.
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Your "1979" St. Louis Cardinals:
1 - 2B - Jose Oquendo
2 - 1B - Ray Sanders
3 - CF - Jim Edmonds (was an easy choice to give him to STL over CAL)
4 - 3B - Tommy Glaviano
5 - RF - Rick Ankiel (cpu is using him as a 2-way player)
6 - LF - Matt Carpenter (gotta get that bat in the lineup somewhere)
7 - SS - Dal Maxvill
8 - C - Johnny Schulte
Bench - 1B - Nippy Jones
Bench - SS - Bob Stephenson
Bench - INF - Ken Oberkfell
Bench - OF - Vern Benson
Bench - 4C - Craig Paquette
SP1 - Dizzy Dean (25 yrs old)
SP2 - Omar Olivares
SP3 - Bob Forsch
SP4 - Rick Ankiel
SP5 - Bob Stuper
CL - Mike Crudale
SU - Dennis Aust
SU - John Frascatore
MR - Gary Blaylock
MR - Dan O'Brien
MR - Jeff Lahti
MR - Jason Isringhausen
MR - Jason Motte
Other items of note...
In a bit of a statistical anomaly, there was only 1 STL catcher generated in the inaugural draft out of ~1100 players (or, more accurately, one that I noticed and didn't end up placing on another roster). Poor Johnny Schulte will be busy back there and the Cards will hope to draft a catcher. A catcher shortage is almost sacrilege in the era we're used to Yadier Molina back there. How will Rick Ankiel fare as a pitcher and batter in an era where you can do both? Even on an NL team, I guess.
Highest paid: Jim Edmonds $29,355,600 and Dizzy Dean $27,785,100. Dizzy Dean is an absolute monster [109/100 stuff, 48/100 movement, 90/100 control, 108 stamina]
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Originally Posted by gskweres9
Astros!
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I must say that Houston was a bit of a tough one because their "slice of the pie" with players going back to 1930 is a bit small as you might imagine. So the 'Stros will have a tough road ahead of them.
Here's the "1979" squad...
1 - 2B - Joe Pittman
2 - LF - Ray Montgomery
3 - CF - George Springer
4 - C - Evan Gattis
5 - 3B - Morgan Ensberg
6 - 1B - Daryle Ward
7 - RF - Eric Anthony
8 - SS - Bert Pena
Bench - C - Luis Pujols
Bench - 3B - Chris Truby
Bench - INF - Matt Dominguez
Bench - UTIL - Art Howe
SP1 - Tim Redding
SP2 - Tom Griffin
SP3 - Brandon Backe
SP4 - Jared Fernandez
SP5 - Frank Dipino (a bold strategy--lefty reliever with 3 stamina)
CL - Tom Edens
SU - James Hoyt
SU - Mark McLemore (the other Mark McLemore)
MR - Fernando Nieve
MR - Chris Donnels (they are toying with the idea of him as a 2-way player...)
MR - Hector Ambriz
MR - Henry Sosa
LR - Dave Roberts (the other Dave Roberts)
Other items of note...
There are 4 guys on this roster who have any built-up skill playing the outfield. One of those guys is starting 1B Daryle Ward. It looks like Collin McHugh will be the first man off the reserve roster although I'm not sure why the AI is starting Dipino over McHugh. Dipino does have some pretty phenomenal ratings for a relief pitcher [96/100 stuff, 76/100 movement, 53/100 control] and 3 plus pitches. In the upcoming draft, the Astros will be looking for starting pitching and outfielders. Jeff Bagwell or Jose Altuve wouldn't hurt either.
If ever there's a candidate for player manager (other than Pete Rose listed above), it would be Art Howe.