Preeves22

From your 58 Cubs, I am going to take out P Bill Henry as your 2nd dagger. Why? Just because.

Having lost Ron Guidry to the dagger, this team has taken on a more offensive direction, built around Mel Ott as its centerpiece. Looking at my division mates, both kentol and Ribbentrop figure to have excellent pitching staffs, but neither one has much in the way of power (no players with more than 25 HRs). So I’ll be rolling the dice and going with fire against ice: Mel Ott (36 HRs), Hank Sauer (35 HRs), Reggie Jackson (27 HRs), and Jeff Burroughs (23 HRs), playing in the hitter’s haven known as Atlanta Fulton County Stadium.

We may not have enough innings to get through the season—and Gene Garber and Larry McWilliams are likely to get lit up with dingers at home—but without Guidry, there was really only one way to build this team.

And if nothing else, putting a $9.2M Mel Ott (.311/.442/.583) in Fulton County Stadium in a league like this one should make for some interesting box scores.

1978 NYY

2B	1978 Willie Randolph	$4,540,591
SS	1978 Fred Stanley	$665,310
OF	1978 Reggie Jackson	$4,284,836
OF	1978 Roy White	$2,148,421
P	1978 Ed Figueroa	$5,670,880
P	1978 Rich Gossage	$4,512,741

1948 CIN

C	1948 Dewey Williams	$236,137
1B	1948 Babe Young	$587,125
OF	1948 Hank Sauer	$4,142,652
OF	1948 Augie Galan	$859,107
P	1948 Jim Blackburn	$498,792
P	1948 Tommy Hughes	$200,618

1978 ATL

1B	1978 Bob Beall	$993,973
2B	1978 Glenn Hubbard	$925,915
OF	1978 Jeff Burroughs	$5,121,163
P	1978 Phil Niekro	$9,446,168
P	1978 Gene Garber	$2,350,616
P	1978 Larry McWilliams	$2,203,883

1938 NYG

C	1938 Harry Danning	$3,584,309
3B	1938 Mel Ott	$9,243,589
3B	1938 Mickey Haslin	$716,549
SS	1938 Dick Bartell	$4,146,733
P	1938 Carl Hubbell	$4,755,518
P	1938 Hal Schumacher	$5,102,297
P	1938 Jumbo Brown	$3,057,127

TOTAL SALARY: $79,995,050

lennyistall - it took me a while to find a dagger target from your 38 Phillies -they are not very good! I honestly could not find a good target from any of the starting offense or pitching. You've only got 4 possible choices at 2B with the lowest two being $2.4M and $2.9M so you've already got problems there without my help. The pitching is just plain bad.

I will go with addition by subtraction. You MUST roster 6 players from this team so I'll take away an obvious low cost option and let you figure it out.

Say goodbye to your $423K option OF Tuck Stainback.

Dagger Luke Hamlin for jbar8888 from the 38 dodgers

Interesting team build for me as I am lucky to have kept Eddie Murray in the 1st dagger round as he can play 3B and solves my two expensive 1B options. He has a terrible glove there so please don't hit it to him! I think Sportsman Park would have been interesting with this team and Medwick but will have to go another route. Have some poor hitting players at C and SS but the lineup is anchored by Johnny Mike, Joe Medwick, Eddie Murray and Ken Singleton and that I can work with!

Saving the $$$ at C, SS, and 2B has allowed me to have a decent staff. I like having Seaver, Palmer, Koosman, and McGregor as my 4-man rotation and the 68 Mets have helped the Pen!

The Chesapeake Crab Cakes are now presented for review!

Home Park: Memorial Stadium

1978 Baltimore Orioles (6)

1B - Eddie Murray - $6,456,440
OF - Ken Singleton - $4,232,527
SS - Kiko Garcia - $899,836
SP - Jim Palmer - $8,012,748
SP - Scott McGregor - $5,770,573
P - Nelson Briles - $805,970

1938 Brooklyn Dodgers (6)

2B - Johnny Hudson - $2,886,411
SS - Leo Durocher - $2,504,615
OF - Goody Rosen - $4,526,555
2B - Pete Coscarart - $223,767
3B - Woody English - $301,891
OF - Tuck Stainback - $879,069

1938 St. Louis Cardinals (6)

C - Mickey Owen - $2,833,696
1B - Johnny Mize - $6,933,296
OF - Joe Medwick - $5,999,145
C - Herb Brenner - $983,761
OF - Frenchy Bordagaray - $888,254
P - Paul Dean - $425,735

1968 New York Mets (7)

3B - Jerry Buchek - $611,938
SP - Tom Seaver - $8,012,196
SP - Jerry Koosman - $6,693,560
P - Ron Taylor - $2,007,752
P - Jim McAndrew - $1,901,079
P - Cal Koonce - $2,341,191
P - Al Jackson - $2,083,546

Total Salary $79,676,551

LA Psychedelics
Forbes Field

'88 Los Angeles Dodgers (6)
P Orel Hershiser - $8,140,557
P Tim Leary - $6,809,679
P Alejandro Pena - $2,860,217
P Brian Holton - $2,766,550
P Jay Howell - $2,758,973
SS - Dave Anderson $1,986,727

'88 Baltimore Orioles (6)
SS Cal Ripken - $5,485,516
1B Eddie Murphy - $4,596,944
OF Fred Lynn - $2,668,736
C Mickey Tettleton - $1,867,508
1B Jim Traber - $1,390,729
P Mike Morgan - $1,385,858

'58 Philadelphia Phillies (7)
2B Solly Hemus - $2,619,216
P Jack Meyer - $2,427,495
C Stan Lopata - $2,212,818
OF Dave Philley - $1,381,528
2B Ted Kazanski - $1,302,302
OF Bob Bowman - $1,286,208
3B Granny Hamner - $922,130

'38 Pittsburgh Pirates (6)
P Russ Bauers - $7,500,033
P Bob Klinger - $4,125,817
OF Lloyd Waner - $5,504,876
OF Johnny Rizzo - $4,698,842
P Ed Brandt - $2,410,706
3B Bill Brubaker - $870,431

Total Salary - $79,980,396

Two messages from mavioric12 this morning.

1. ermocito can hit 78 Mariners with dagger #2 (oh, I will....)

2 For Beernoser, the 2nd dagger will hit SS Alvin Dark - the best SS option by far.

mavioric12 has a tough challenge figuring out which 6 of these terrible Mariners to roster. I tried - it was hard. It will be harder without Leon Roberts, who was actually one of the top 3 OFin your entire player pool. For your 6 slots you have a decent RP and a bunch of bench riders, not all of whom will be cheap.

I would have hit a SP but Seattle actually has NO pitchers with 200 IP at all.

Budget won't be as big a concern for you as player quality.

These are the "final four three one" dagger to be thrown before rosters can be finalized. I hope we get all four today so we can get this league align and play some games! Obviously the dagger recipients will need some time to finalize rosters after the dagger 2 hits. More details on page 1.
lennyistall
C_Burns04
BeAllEndAAll
vilefileman

Another long driving day - hopefully we have all the daggers and more of the rosters by Wed morning. We are making decent progress to start this week.

Team name tb. Yankee Stadium
Salary: $79,821,368

38 Yankees (7)
C Bill Dickey $5,628,799
1B Lou Gehrig $5,915,858
2B Joe Gordon $4,046,981
2B Bill Knickerbocker $655,983
SS Frankie Crosetti $5,460,788
OF Joe DiMaggio $6,560,433
OF Tommy Henrich $4,190,772

48 Senators (6)
SS John Sullivan $685,118
3B Eddie Yost $4,042,585
OF Tom McBride $1,212,179
OF Sherry Robertson $1,090,685
P Ray Scarborough $5,368,772
P Dick Welteroth $866,581

68 Astros (6)
C Dave Adlesh $316,049
3B Doug Rader $2,079,145
P Dave Giusti $6,184,246
P Mike Cuellar $4,535,437
P Wade Blasingame $379,710
P Jim Ray $2,132,193

68 A's (6)
1B Danny Cater $3,135,297
OF Joe Rudi $603,923
P Jim Nash $6,151,177
P Lew Krauss Jr. $4,732,676
P Diego Segui $2,673,951
P Paul Lindblad $1,172,030

C_Burns04 is daggering Hector Lopez.

Team Name
About Half Stanky

Yankee Stadium

$ 79, 618, 399

48 Braves (6)

2b - Eddie Stanky $3,488,106
O- Jeff Heath $4,551,004
1b- Frank McCormick $804,606
P- Warren Spahn $6,902,618
P- Nels Potter $2,808,903
P- Vern Bickford $4,001,814

58 Senators (6)

1b- Julio Becquer $543,689
SS- Ossie Alvarez $699,536
O- Roy Sievers $5,191,024
P- Camilo Pascual $4,417,541
P- Dick Hyde $3,729,284
P- Tex Clevenger $2,645,640

48 Cubs (6)

C- Rube Walker $1,678,597
2b- Gene Mauch $615,687
3b- Andy Pafko $5,341,931
O- Bill Nicholson $3,551,741
P- Jess Dobernic $2,218,393
P- Doyle Lade $1,686,149

48 Yankees (7)

C- Yogi Berra $4,221,030
SS- Phil Rizutto $3,118,928
3b- Bobby Brown $2,642,885
O- Tommy Henrich $6,116,091
O- Charlie Keller $1,767,519
P- Vic Raschi $6,248,783
P- Randy Gumpert $626,900

I guess my first pick of the 48 Braves wasn't the best as I only used 1 1/2 of their hitters in my final roster. I tried so hard to get Johnny Sain onto my staff but it just couldn't be done within budget. What my roster pool was missing was the 50 inning decent reliever. My 100 inning relievers gave me 1550 innings even if I could have gotten Sain in the budget.

Both screw teams did good jobs giving me not much to play with. I got an outfielder Roy Sievers from the Nats who I'll play mostly at 1B. From the Cubs I have two starters who are both worse than my Braves starters but I had to get some Cubs in there, I ended up needing a lot from my final team, the 48 Yankees. Young Yogi will catch, and Tommy Henrich will be in the outfield. Since Alvin Dark was daggered, young Phil Rizutto will play short. There's a break for the Yankees. DiMaggio didn't make the cut and wasn't even a close call. I tried to squeeze in Sain, but didn't even try for Joltin Joe. I had good outfield options without him. The secret weapon of the Yankees was 3B Bobby Brown who also plays second, and short. I wanted to play Eddie Stanky but at 350 at bats I needed someone to split the at bats with him and I didn't have anyone. I didn't want to have to play Snuffy Stirnweis who wasn't bad but would make me not roster Stanky's 455 OBP. Bobby Brown will platoon with Stanky at 2B with a 383 OBP but bad defense.

The first dagger of Senators pitcher Johnny Schmitz was a killer as he was going right into the rotation and was a Senator. The second dagger of Alvin Dark I thought hurt a lot because Rizutto was a major downsize, but with my budget woes, I may have had to go with Phil regardless.

My pitching staff is better than it normally is but I only have three pitchers with over 160 innings which may cause me to do too much juggling for a 10 man staff. Losing Schmitz really hurt. So did losing Johnny Sain to budget concerns. I tried my best but couldn't get him in. He ballooned me up to 1550 innings and I didn't have the low inning good relievers to compensate elsewhere. I guess that's cause all my teams were from the pre-bullpen days.

Overall I have I think a good team, but I always think that and then finish below 500. We'll see.

jonstephen25- Rip Radcliffe

Alright! that means we are down to two final daggers from BeAllEndAll and LennyIStall. Then we all can finalize our teams and start the mayhem.

Calhoop… say goodbye to 1958 Duke Snider!

I thought about daggering a RP from this Dodgers team, but Snider is far too productive at his price point to not hit… best of luck this season!