Cool...spoonfed's pick is now valid.  On with the show!

Fernando Valenzuela DOddgers

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I'll take TSMOSSOAT+>E
The Single Most Overrated Shortstop Of All Time with more + plays than Errors.

Cal Ripken

Posted by rbow923 on 10/13/2011 2:22:00 PM (view original):
I'll take TSMOSSOAT+>E
The Single Most Overrated Shortstop Of All Time with more + plays than Errors.

Cal Ripken

Well played, rbow.  Well played, indeed.

First time Ripken has played for anybody but the Orioles in Rule V, in the 10 seasons for which I have draft records. He was one of the first 5 keepers each of the other 6 times the O's have been used.

There are 6 other guys who were left off their teams' first-5 list for the first time.  Three of those are on teams that don't get used much, but there are 3 whose teams have been used in all 10 seasons, and before now they'd been first-5 nine times in a row.

Guesses? Hint: 2 are from the same franchise.

I'm pretty sure I'm about to take one of those guys: Steve Carlton, PHI


his Rule V record may be spotty, but he's pitched pretty well for my teams in the past, I could use a lefty starter, and the AL West should have some favorable parks for him.

Posted by sgsmith on 10/13/2011 2:47:00 PM (view original):
First time Ripken has played for anybody but the Orioles in Rule V, in the 10 seasons for which I have draft records. He was one of the first 5 keepers each of the other 6 times the O's have been used.

There are 6 other guys who were left off their teams' first-5 list for the first time.  Three of those are on teams that don't get used much, but there are 3 whose teams have been used in all 10 seasons, and before now they'd been first-5 nine times in a row.

Guesses? Hint: 2 are from the same franchise.

Love the trivia, but probably best not to start shouting out names of unprotected players while they're still available to be drafted. 

But feel free to point them out once they're selected.

Yes, good call, sinf.  Sorry to promote bad draft etiquette.

Posted by rbow923 on 10/13/2011 2:22:00 PM (view original):
I'll take TSMOSSOAT+>E
The Single Most Overrated Shortstop Of All Time with more + plays than Errors.

Cal Ripken

A pox on him and his house!  Another vain and selfish player who put himself above the game.  Not in the same lack-of-class as HWMNBN, but a player bolstered by an unthinking, hero-starved populace who put him on a pedestal even when all evidence suggested he was holding back his team.  His fielding stats were hyper-inflated by official scorers who would never dare to hang an error on him and he was an inconsistent batter with a couple MVP seasons surrounded by a lot of mediocre ones.  Of 76 HOFers with more than 9000 ABs, he ranks 60th in BA (.276), 65th in R/AB, 67th in OBP, 59th in OPS and 46th in SLG. He was a very good player, to be sure, but we'll take a consistently clutch five tool guy over a self-propagating myth.

Orel Hershiser - LAD

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Sitemailed llcoach and myself.

Posted by marlowe on 10/13/2011 5:46:00 PM (view original):
Orel Hershiser - LAD

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That takes my Dodgers off the board, and I'm almost giddy.

Posted by sinfonian11 on 10/13/2011 6:03:00 PM (view original):

Posted by marlowe on 10/13/2011 5:46:00 PM (view original):
Orel Hershiser - LAD

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That takes my Dodgers off the board, and I'm almost giddy.

Lost two pitchers, but get to keep the one you wanted?