I thought I was so clever with Gagne's cy young year.  Now comparing other rosters, I feel like a sheep.

1. Randon player - Terry Jorgensen
2. First letter of your username is first letter of player's last name - Tip O'Neill (team will be entered under user name ortails)
3. Must be an MVP season for player selected - Dennis Eckersley 1992
4. Must be a pitcher with 200 k in season selected - Walter Johnson
5. Player must have homered off player #4 - Babe Ruth
6. Player must have same birthday as player #5 - Smoky Burgess
7 Player who played for manager selected for #21 - Jim Bottomley
8. Must be a pitcher who won a minimum of 20 games for season selected - Addie Joss 1908
9. player must have struck out a minimum of 100 times in season selected - Tony Phillips 1993
10. last letter of player #9's last name is first letter of player #10's last name - Takashi Saito
11. player must be rated A/A defensively for season selected - Mickey Mantle 1955
12. player must be from same state or country as player #11- Lloyd Waner
13. player must have walked a minimum of 70 times in season selected - Lou Boudreau 1948
14. pitcher must have struck out player #13 at some point during their careers - Johnny Sain
15. must be a clone of any player on your roster - Eric Gagne
16. Pitcher must have walked a minimum of 75 batters in season selected - Randy Johnson 1997
17. Pitcher must have won Cy young award in season selected - Eric Gagne 2003
18. player must be rated D/D defensively for season selected - Tom Leahy 1897
19. pitcher must have a WHIP of 1.00 or lower for season selected - Harry Krause 1909
20 player must have been a teammate of player #19 at some point - Jack Lapp
21. must be a player who also managed - Rogers Hornsby
22 - 25. player of your choice with maximum $1,000,000 salary - Elmer Valo 1941, Joe Schultz 1946, Roger Mason 1991, Dave Rozema 1982

I have also boarded the Gagne Bus.....I almost want to go back and take a different path

my Walter Johnson is from 1911

1. Random player - Jeff Francoeur 2010

2. First letter -  Barry Bonds 1993 (updated)

3. MVP  - Lou Gehrig 1927

4. 200 k - Cy Young 1905

5. homered off player #4 - Kid Nichols 1904 (homered off Young on  7/12/1897)
6. same birthday as player #5 - David Bell 1998 (both born Sept 14) [updated]

7. played for manager selected for #21 - Troy Percival 2001

8. won a minimum of 20 games for season selected - Addie Joss 1908

9. struck out a minimum of 100 times in season selected - Johnny Bench 1975

10. last letter of player #9's last name  - Billy Herman 1936

11. A/A defensively for season selected - Lou Boudreau 1947

12. from same state or country as player #11  - Rickey Henderson 1990 (both from Illinois)

13. walked a minimum of 70 times in season selected - Stan Musial 1948 (updated)

14. struck out player #13  - Harvey Haddix 1964 (struck out Musial on 6/23/1956)

15. clone - Randy Johnson 1998

16. walked a minimum of 75 batters in season selected - Randy Johnson 2000

17. Cy young award - Rollie Fingers 1981

18. D/D defensively for season selected - Larry Hisle 1980 (updated)

19. WHIP of 1.00 or lower for season selected - Fred Toney 1918

20 teammate of player #19 at some point - Rogers Hornsby 1921 (played with Toney on 1923 Cardinals)

21. also managed - Mike Scioscia 1980

22 - 25. maximum $1,000,000 salary

Jerry Kenney 1967 (updated)

Cy Williams 1929 (updated)

Pete Knisely 1912

Johnny Cooney 1922

Is there a way with Baseball-Reference to find out what pitchers struck out Tris Speaker other than going through individual box scores?

Posted by pttsbrghkid on 7/10/2012 12:53:00 PM (view original):
1. Assigned Random - Harry Billiard 1915
2. username:pttsbrghkid - Gaylord Perry 
3. MVP - 1960 Dick Groat
4. 200K season - 1964 Bob Veale
5. Homered off Veale - Pete Rose
6. Same Birthday as Rose - Greg Maddux (April 14)
7. played for Danny Murtaugh(picked for spot #21) - Roberto Clemente
8. 20 wins in selected season - Doug Drabek 1990
9. 100+ Ks in selected season - Willie Stargell 1972
10. Last letter of Stargell = first letter of last name - Ernie Lombardi
11. A/A defense for selected season - 1966 Bill Mazeroski
12. from same state as Mazeroski - George Brett (both born in West Virginia)
13. 70+ walks in selected season - 2010 Andrew McCutchen (exactly 70)
14. pitcher who struck out mccutchen - Cliff Lee
15. clone - Bob Veale 1965
16. pitcher with 75+ walks in selected season - Wilbur Cooper 1914 (79)
17. cy young award in select season - Eric Gagne 2003
18. D/D defensive rating in select season - Dick Stuart 1959
19. WHIP 1.0 or lower for select season - Rich Gossage 1977 (.95)
20. Teammate of Gossage at some point - Ivan Rodriguez (teammates in Texas in 1991, when Pudge was 19 and Goose was 39)
21. player who also managed - Danny Murtaugh
22-25. my choice with max of 1,000,000 salary - 2001 Gary Matthews Jr, 2009 Joel Hanrahan, 1966 Don Schwall, 1977 Fernando Gonzalez


I think I'm in the clear for rules, and just squeezed in under the cap at 139,880,927.  Feel free to tell me where I messed up, or how silly my team looks.  This was fun for me, not being a big baseball guy.  Thanks wylie, speedy and especially Taint! 

Too many Pirates....no way this team succe....err....nm.

17 in we're getting closer!!

I'm trying to find an easy way to find out who struck out who or who homered off who.. I'll let you know what I find out

Posted by edsortails on 7/10/2012 9:55:00 AM (view original):
#11.....A/A defense


is that A/A defense or A/A defense or better.....?



I'm not trying to be a jerk, but one roster had an A+/A+ defender here, so I just wanted to clarify.....

A/A or better

Posted by pttsbrghkid on 7/9/2012 12:15:00 PM (view original):
Sign me up!

I may be suckier at sim baseball than the pirates of 1993-2011, but I'm here to make life miserable for yinz *******.

you do a fine job of that.

Minor note: I'm dropping 2004 C Benito Santiago for 2004 SS Neifi Perez. Both players are one of the under $1M options, and I just wanted some bench flexibility as I already have a backup catcher.

so's yer mom

excellent team name, sparky.

bump it

Posted by pttsbrghkid on 7/11/2012 7:02:00 PM (view original):
excellent team name, sparky.

thx