Challenge: Beat my "S"

[seawolf17]

If you want to get technical, the "H" who played more games than any other at 3B for the Mets was Richie Hebner. It was all in one season (1979), and he made 22 errors, but he's not a terrible pick, considering he hit .268 and drove in 79 runs.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Managed by Berra, with coaches Benedict, Baylor, Burgess and Branley, my B's are ready to take allayaall on.

Shall we use Bret's 3-and-2 game to run a tournament?

[seawolf17]

Let me see if I can get Rod Carew (to play second) and a closer signed to Mets contracts real quick first.

[HahnSolo]

Although the Rs can't really field a complete team, their pitching staff could certainly hold its own:

Starters:
Nolan Ryan
Rick Reed
Glendon Rusch
Armando Reynoso
Kenny Rogers

Bullpen
Grant Roberts
Royce Ring
Mike Remlinger
Jerrod Riggan
Jeff Reardon

[Guest Edgy DC]

Good letters taken, I'll escape the box and take the 20 Mets born in Alabama. My outfield depth will blow your mind. Of course, putting a 42-year-old outfielder at shortstop --- when he hasn't played there since he was 19 --- will blow my mind (and likely any chance my team has. I'm not sure Redman will work out at catcher, and I may have to activate Banedict.

But --- what ho! --- that outfiled depth.

Bruce Benedict (Birmingham), manager

Lineup:
1) Marlon Anderson (Montgomery), 2b
2) Willie Mays (Westfield), ss
3) leon Jones (Plateau), 1b
4) Tommie Agee (Magnolia), cf
5) George Foster (Tuscaloosa), lf
6) Johnny Lewis (Greenville), rf
7) Amos Otis (Mobile), 3b
8) Prentice Redman (Tuscaloosa), c

Bench
Ced Landrum (Butler), of
Pat Howell (Mobile), of
Lou Thornton (Montgomery),of
Terrence Long (Montgomery), of
Craig Brazell (Montgomery), 1b

Rotation
Bill Latham (Birmingham)
Randy Tate (Florence)
Reid Cornelius (Thomasville)
Roy Lee Jackson (Opelika)

Bullpen
Terry Leach (Selma)
Frank Lary (Northport)

[Benjamin Grimm]

That Alabama pitching staff will kill you.

I'd guess, without looking, that the best geographic team will come from California. Off the top of my head, you'll have Seaver, Carter, Hernandez, and Strawberry.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yeah, but it's no fun just picking the obvious best. I'd spend a half hour just trimming the roster to 25.

[MFS62]

This was a fun thing to do when I was a kid. The best all-something team I could ever come up with was that I called the "Dial M For Murder" team of the early 60's. From memory, it was:

1B McCovey
2B Mazeroski
SS McCauliffe
3B Matthews
C McCarver
LF Mantle
CF Mays
RF Maris

SP Marichal
SP McLain
SP Maloney
SP Mizell

RP Marshall


And I forgot the rest.
Nice team, eh?

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

Your bullpen could include Sudden Sam McDowell (though still primarily a starter at that point) and Billy McCool.

[MFS62]

Edgy DC wrote: Your bullpen could include Sudden Sam McDowell (though still primarily a starter at that point) and Billy McCool.

It probably did. As I said, I forgot the rest of that squad.
Sudden Sam was a hard guy to forget at that time.

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

Here's a Texas team. Filling in the pitching staff wasn't hard, but the outfield was tough. I had to go Willie Randolph style, and go with extra infielders in lieu of outfielders.

How would the Texans fare against the Alabamans?


TEXAS METS

SP: Nolan Ryan (Refugio)
SP: Pat Zachry (Richmond)
SP: Al Jackson (Waco)
SP: Anthony Young (Houston)
SP: Pete Schourek (Austin)

RP: Calvin Schiraldi (Houston)
RP: Dennis Cook (Lamarque)
RP: Mike Stanton (Houston)
RP: Scott Strickland (Houston)
RP: Pat Mahomes (Bryan)
RP: Brian Bohanon (Denton)
RP: Dale Murray (Cuero)

C: Jerry Grote (San Antonio)
C: Phil Lombardi (Abilene)

1B: Danny Heep (San Antonio)
2B: Ken Boswell (Austin)
3B: Charlie Neal (Longview)
SS: Garry Templeton (Lockney)
IF: Roy McMillan (Bonham)
IF: Mike Phillips (Beaumont)
IF: Bob Heise (San Antonio)

OF: Steve Henderson (Houston)
OF: Joel Youngblood (Houston)
OF: Jason Tyner (Beaumont)
OF: Cliff Cook (Dallas)

[Benjamin Grimm]

Anyone wanna try New York? Florida? Pennsylvania? Puerto Rico? Dominican Republic?

[MFS62]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: How would the Texans fare against the Alabamans?

Well, in a series, I'd guess Anthony Young would lose one of the games.

Later

[HahnSolo]

Man, a California team would be sick.
You could probably field two Mets California teams.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I'm up for a California Met Fantasy draft.

[Willets Point]

Everytime I see this I think Bret is saying "Beat my ass!"

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

I think that, too, WP.

[HahnSolo]

So with 2006 in the rearview, I thought I'd revisit my H team with a couple minor changes. Orlando Hernandez joins the rotation, bumping Aaron Heilman to the bullpen and Eric Hillman back to imaginary Triple A. We Look forward to 2007 and hope Philip Humber can stabilize the rotation.

1b: Keith Hernandez
2b: Ron Hunt
SS: Bud Harrelson
3b: Jim Hickman
LF: Rickey Henderson
CF: Darryl Hamilton
RF: Steve Henderson
C: Todd Hundley

SP: Mike Hampton
SP: Pete Harnisch
SP: Orlando Hernandez
SP: Orel Hershiser

RP: Doug Henry
RP: Jay Hook
RP: Roberto Hernandez
RP: Aaron Heilman
RP: Tom Hausman

Bench:
Lenny Harris
Danny Heep
Butch Huskey
Ron Hodges
Clint Hurdle
Don Hahn
Jason Hardtke
Richard Hidalgo

Manager: Gil Hodges
First Base Coach: Frank Howard
Third Base Coach: Whitey Herzog
Bench Coach: Rogers Hornsby
Pitching Coach: Charlie Hough
Bullpen Coach: Vern Hoscheit

[Benjamin Grimm]

Interesting that this thread wakes up while we're discussing Edgy's "S" in the Baseball Forum.