Posted by tdoak on 1/9/2011 10:29:00 PM (view original):
I am just finishing up a league [the Two Man Band] where you had to play a single offensive player at all 8 positions. The only two players who were rated at catcher were Jimmie Foxx and Craig Biggio ... the other 22 teams played guys out of position, everyone from Barry Bonds and Ted Williams to A Rod and Ernie Banks. Most of them were brutal on passed balls and stolen bases. The team with Billy Hamilton stole 2,000 bases and won 110 games.
I remember when thejuice6 ran the similar Greatest Hitter League. (Every team chose one hitter and cloned him 13 times, using identical 12-man pitching staffs) Foxx and Torre were the only rated catchers, and Rickey Henderson won an insane number of games, ending up losing to Foxx in the World Series.