My turn to try to screw up Jonstephen's team,

He has the 63 Cards and the 43 Red Sox.

A happy locker room is a winning locker room. Not only is there a war on, but I'm going to throw in a bit of civil conflict by forcing the 43 Boston Red Sox to share their locker room with their cross-town rivals the hated 43 Boston Braves It will be Jon's job to bring these rivals together to form a winning team.

If things start to get out of hand, there's always baseball's peacemaker Curt Flood on the 63 Cards who can broker a compromise. It's enough to make an owner call his players a bunch of over paid prima donnas.

Ouch. Will pick tonight but finishing up an 8 year old softball draft and it is more cutthroat than this so it may be a little while.

FarleyFustle started with the 33 Pirates which gave him a solid 3B, SS, and 2 OF they also gave him 2 solid starters and a couple of good bullpen guys. Overall a solid start. He was then gifted the 73 Padres which are truly crappy. They provided him with a decent C, 1B, one SP, and a long reliever with very little else to help.

The first thing I noticed in searching for a screw was that they lacked any good options at 2B and that they also lacked subs at 1B, 2B, and 3B. So I looked for a team that offered little help at 2B with few subs at those spots and that had as little pitching as possible.

Enter the 1953 Detroit Tigers.

Walt Drapo is your only decent option at 2B. There are no subs at 3B or 1B and overlapping help at SS and OF to go along with one of the worst pitching staffs on the board.

Good luck...

Since JonStephen decided to steal the 1953 Tigers out from under me, I was forced to dig a little deeper to find a good (or bad, depending on your point of view) screw team for Redcped... I tried building a team with his 1963 Reds and the 1973 Phillies, and found that he has a glut of usable OF and SP.

So... I wanted to be generous and give him even more OF and SP, and stumbled on a truly terrible fit with the 1923 Philadelphia A's. They have one pitcher worth owning, and he pitched 29 innings. No other pitcher has a WHIP < 1.35, and the two pitchers with 1.35 and 1.38 threw a total of 600 innings, making them bad fits for his SP-rich roster. Five of the top seven OBP are all outfielders, and one is a catcher, overlapping with Johnny Edwards. Have fun!

Well played, sir. It's a tough team to work with, that's for sure. And not many cheap players either.

DodgerDon swiped the 83 Dodgers out from under my nose, so it's a great honor to be able to screw with his team. I narrowed it down to a few teams and I really had trouble making the final call.

Let's look at what he's got right now: A couple very nice SP, 2 studly relievers, and a handful of other useful pitchers. He's going to pick his 4th team and be able to fill out that pitching staff decently enough. On the hitting side, he's got a nice 3B in Pedro, a solid 1B in Hrbek, a solid 2B in Castino, and a good-hit, no-field C in Engle. Not much in the way of outfielders, terrible choices at SS. I don't want to help him out there if I can avoid it.

Clearly what DD needs is the 1983 Kansas City Royals.

They have one great pitcher, Quiz, but he's a $5M reliever. Do you really want to spend that much on a reliever in an $80M cap when you already have two other great RP? All 3 would cost $12M for 300 innings. That's tough at this cap. Can you afford to roster all three of them and a rotation to get them a lead? Pena, Welch and Reuss get you 600 innings for a bit under $17M. That's going to put you at $30M for 900 innings with a lot more than that needed still and the money running low. The Royals have a bunch of other pitchers, but none are especially good. They're just fillers and no better than what you had.

On the hitting side, their best three hitters are a 3B, 1B and a DH. You can't use the DH, McRae, so he's wasted. Brett and Guerrero play the same position, and you have to roster only 2 3B. You could play Brett out of position, or one could get daggered and you'd lose one of your two best hitters. They have a nice 1B in Aikens, but you already have Hrbek and can't use both. The outfielders can't hit, and a lot of them are low in PA anyway. The SS can't hit at all, fields just so-so, and there's only one of them. There's a 2B who can field but can't hit a lick, plus you already have a better one.

Enjoy fitting the pieces together!

It’s my turn to create mayhem for owner SteveIzzy. SI owns the 43 Indians & 83 Mariners currently.

The 3rd team for you is the 1943 St.Louis Browns.

The Browns best player is Vern Stephens & he’s a SS that will be tough to keep since Lou Boudreau is on the 43 Indians team that SteveIzzy selected. The next best hitters on the 43 Browns are nothing to write home about.

The 43 Browns have 3 non-descript starting pitchers with 200+ IPs that will be hard to justify rostering unless you are tanking this season. A couple of decent 150+ inning back end of the rotation/long relief guys will be available, but they will certainly suck up some good chunks of salary cap.

All in all the 43 St.Louis Browns are going to be a challenge for you to find a few good men. Good Luck.

Guys, I'm doing this from memory as my notes are at home. I want to keep this moving. From what I recall about ToddCommish's teams was they had a solid foundation but also an obvious dagger target..my choice for him gives no relief if I prove to be correct. Todd, say hello to the 1953 Philadelphia Athletics.

Is it our turn to give a gift to dweezil?

Ok well Dweezil can have the 1923 Phillies.

Contrarian - I'm not really finding an obvious bad fit for your two rosters. It looks like your weakness (such as it is) is going to be offense, so let's give you the worst offense left - the 1963 Houston Colt .45s. I didn't think it was possible for a team to average fewer than 3 runs per game, but these proto-Astros managed it. The pitching is surprisingly good for a team that had 104 Pythagorean losses, but how much of that is park effect?

moses_k, looking over your two current teams, one weakness I'm seeing is at second, third and short. I dug for the least impressive collection at those positions and decided on Joel Youngblood, Johnnie Lemaster and Tom O'Malley with the 83 SF Giants.

Well shoot. that is who I was gonna give with the next pick.

reddtrain can have the 1973 White Sox. Good luck finding anything useful there...oh, they do have Dick Allen...for about 250PA....but then again you don't need a first baseman....

CTRYonker I am sending 1953 Cubs your way. A couple decent bats but going to be tough finding 6 usefull players

Damn need to re pick