Redcped not much we can do to you with a cheap backup on all your other teams.

So we’ll take out your speedy defensive OF Jose Cardenal

Seay00 you may dagger the 59 A’s

Posted by whalers10 on 8/10/2024 9:12:00 AM (view original):
I can't believe that some guys are still waiting for daggers. Jstephen25 hasn't had one thrown at him yet. How's he supposed to build his team?

All missing have received a nudge this morning.
I'm afk much of the day but hopefully we get there soon.

Willie the Wonder and the No-Neck
Busch Stadium
$79,670,155

1959 New York Yankees
C Johnny Blanchard ($200.541)
OF Enos Slaughter ($423,354)
P Whitey Ford ($5,449,202)
P Bobby Shantz ($3,761,848)
P Ryne Duren ($2,394,324)
P Art Ditmar ($6,655,545)

1979 Seattle Mariners
1B Bruce Bochte ($4,832,800)
2B Julio Cruz ($3,768,820)
3B Bill Stein ($1,186,133)
SS Mario Mendoza ($1,180,718)
OF Ruppert Jones ($6,558,444)
OF Joe Simpson ($1,281,014)
OF Willie Horton ($3,635,643)

1969 Chicago White Sox
1B Pete Ward ($1,114,891)
3B Bill Melton ($3,854,567)
OF Walt Williams ($3,069,962)
P Tommy John ($4,879,123)
P Paul Edmondson ($2,073,998)
P Wilbur Wood ($2,571,475)

1979 St Louis Cardinals
C Ted Simmons ($4,177,386)
2B Mike Tyson ($835,511)
SS Garry Templeton ($6,288,937)
P Mark Littell ($2,723,435)
P Roy Thomas ($1,667,210)
P Pete Vuckovich ($5,085,474)

When I selected the 1959 Yankees in the first round, I never envisioned I would only use 2 of their hitters and their combined salaries would be a whopping $624K. No Mantle, Berra, Richardson or Kubek. Instead, I am using 7 hitters from the lowly 1979 Seatle Mariners with help from the 1969 White Sox and 1979 Cardinals to fill in the gaps. The daggers of Mantle and Carlos May were painful to say the least.

Offense
From Seattle, Bochte may be a value at first and offers a decent bat, Ruppert Jones is a good all-around player, Julio Cruz offers 49 SBs with a decent OBP, and last, Willie "The Wonder" Horton provide me with some nice power. I only hope he can catch a flyball on the odd occasion. From the White Sox I get a very average Bill Melton at 3B and one of the best nicknames in baseball to fill out my outfield: Walt "No-Neck" Williams. The Cardinals provide me with 2 excellent players: Ted Simmons (26 HRs) behind the plate and Garry Templeton (19 triples) at short.

Pitching
In a word: "Meh." From the Yankees, a not-so-good Whitey Ford and a very good Art Ditmar lead the rotation. Hopefully Ditmar will shine, and Ford will eat some innings to keep the bullpen rested. Bobby Shantz is very good, Littel, Thomas and Edmonson are okay at the back of the pen and Ryne Duren is a solid closer. Wilbur Wood will knuckle his way through mid-long relief. Tommy John and Pete Vukovich will round out the rotation and hopefully win as often as they lose.

Overall
I don't like this team, but it was fun to construct. It does provide some pop with 128 HRs. 48 triples and some speed with 3 players combining for 109 SBs. The staff will have its moments both good and bad, and I am hoping to manage an 80 win season - a .500 record would be a good thing for Willie the Wonder and the No-Neck.

Posted by midknight on 8/10/2024 1:31:00 PM (view original):
Willie the Wonder and the No-Neck
Busch Stadium
$79,670,155

1959 New York Yankees
C Johnny Blanchard ($200.541)
OF Enos Slaughter ($423,354)
P Whitey Ford ($5,449,202)
P Bobby Shantz ($3,761,848)
P Ryne Duren ($2,394,324)
P Art Ditmar ($6,655,545)

1979 Seattle Mariners
1B Bruce Bochte ($4,832,800)
2B Julio Cruz ($3,768,820)
3B Bill Stein ($1,186,133)
SS Mario Mendoza ($1,180,718)
OF Ruppert Jones ($6,558,444)
OF Joe Simpson ($1,281,014)
OF Willie Horton ($3,635,643)

1969 Chicago White Sox
1B Pete Ward ($1,114,891)
3B Bill Melton ($3,854,567)
OF Walt Williams ($3,069,962)
P Tommy John ($4,879,123)
P Paul Edmondson ($2,073,998)
P Wilbur Wood ($2,571,475)

1979 St Louis Cardinals
C Ted Simmons ($4,177,386)
2B Mike Tyson ($835,511)
SS Garry Templeton ($6,288,937)
P Mark Littell ($2,723,435)
P Roy Thomas ($1,667,210)
P Pete Vuckovich ($5,085,474)

When I selected the 1959 Yankees in the first round, I never envisioned I would only use 2 of their hitters and their combined salaries would be a whopping $624K. No Mantle, Berra, Richardson or Kubek. Instead, I am using 7 hitters from the lowly 1979 Seatle Mariners with help from the 1969 White Sox and 1979 Cardinals to fill in the gaps. The daggers of Mantle and Carlos May were painful to say the least.

Offense
From Seattle, Bochte may be a value at first and offers a decent bat, Ruppert Jones is a good all-around player, Julio Cruz offers 49 SBs with a decent OBP, and last, Willie "The Wonder" Horton provide me with some nice power. I only hope he can catch a flyball on the odd occasion. From the White Sox I get a very average Bill Melton at 3B and one of the best nicknames in baseball to fill out my outfield: Walt "No-Neck" Williams. The Cardinals provide me with 2 excellent players: Ted Simmons (26 HRs) behind the plate and Garry Templeton (19 triples) at short.

Pitching
In a word: "Meh." From the Yankees, a not-so-good Whitey Ford and a very good Art Ditmar lead the rotation. Hopefully Ditmar will shine, and Ford will eat some innings to keep the bullpen rested. Bobby Shantz is very good, Littel, Thomas and Edmonson are okay at the back of the pen and Ryne Duren is a solid closer. Wilbur Wood will knuckle his way through mid-long relief. Tommy John and Pete Vukovich will round out the rotation and hopefully win as often as they lose.

Overall
I don't like this team, but it was fun to construct. It does provide some pop with 128 HRs. 48 triples and some speed with 3 players combining for 109 SBs. The staff will have its moments both good and bad, and I am hoping to manage an 80 win season - a .500 record would be a good thing for Willie the Wonder and the No-Neck.

I always find it interesting to see how I built the team compared with how you went. I'm a little surprised you didn't find a way to use Fulgham in the rotation, and the Willie Horton pick wasn't on my radar. My concern with him is having no fielding rating. I used a DH-only Ohtani in the outfield once and he made an obscene number of errors. His Fld% was like .750. I'll have my eye on that with Willie.

The other thing that will likely have you flinging your hat in the dugout will be the walk-prone bullpen. Some of those guys really struggle finding the plate. I'd better make sure I have a few patient hitters in my lineup!

Fighting Gregor Mendels
Salary: $79,778,036
Expos
C Gary Carter $5,112,860
2B Rodney Scott $4,419,134
3B Larry Parrish $4,991,544
SS Jim Mason $241,935
Util/OF Rusty Staub $433,491
SP Dan Schatzeder $4,350,371
RP David Palmer $3,145,276
Bees
SS Eddie Miller $2,658,021
OF Max West $4,190,471
1B Elbie Fletcher $673,841
2B Tony Cuccinello $2,505,114
OF Jimmy Outlaw $618,515
SP/RP Milt Shoffner $3,298,445
Red Sox
1B Vic Wertz $1,436,748
OF Jackie Jensen $5,539,875
SP/RP Bill Monbouquette $3,002,949
SP/RP Ike Delock $3,029,538
RP Mike Fornieles $1,864,761
RP Nelson Chittum $746,753
Padres
OF Dave Winfield $7,164,818
C Gene Tenace $5,579,513
3B Barry Evans $516,374
SP Gaylord Perry $5,621,322
SP Bob Shirley $4,614,834
SP/RP Eric Rasmussen $4,021,533

Tres Rios Hermanos

Stadium - Three Rivers Stadium

$79,885,043

1979 Pittsburgh Pirates (6)

1B Wille Stargell - $3,649,733
3B - Bill Madlock - $2,749,851
OF - Dave Parker - $5,606,199
SP - John Candlelaria - $4,627,837
SP - Bruce Kison - $4,327,170
P - Jim Bibby - $3,842,824

1959 Chicago Cubs (6)

C - Sammy Taylor $2,310,520
C - Earl Averill - $1,048,948
1B - Art Schult - $559,519
OF - Irv Noren - $1.533,479
SP - Dave Hillman - $5,116,443
P - Elmer Singleton - $1,133,334

1959 Cleveland Indians (6)

3B - George Strickland - $2,614,376
OF - Minnie Minoso - $6,121,544
OF - Tito Francona - $5,538,618
P - Jim Perry - $4,972,821
P - Jack Harshman - $2,877,228
P - Dick Brodoski - $599,777

1969 St. Louis Cardinals (7)

2B - Julian Javier - $3.182,280
SS - Dal Maxvill - $1,857423
2B - Phil Gagliano - $502,399
SS - Steve Huntz - $582,817
OF - Jo Hague - $374,421
SP - Bob Gibson - $10,837,565
P - Chuck Taylor - $3,297,917

Big Cat and Ducky
$79,796,995

1959 Orioles (7)
P - Hoyt Wilhelm, $6,676,807
P - Milt Pappas, $6,392,012
P - Billy O'Dell, $5,643,631
P - Jack Fisher, $2,132,384
C - Gus Triandos, $2,975,014
1B - Walt Dropo, $882,855
OF - Gene Woodling, $4,023,563

1939 Cardinals (6)
P - Bob Bowman, $4,849,389
P - Max Lanier, $1,075,596
1B - Johnny Mize, $8,188,495
SS - Lyn Lary, $295,226
OF - Joe Medwick, $5,845,998
OF - Enos Slaughter, $5,640,604

1929 White Sox (6)
P - Red Faber, $5,778,564
2B - John Kerr, $2,983,398
2B - Bill Hunnefield, $619,261
3B - Willie Kamm, $5,536,582
SS - Bill Cissell, $4,355,937
OF - Doug Taitt, $344,978

1969 Indians (6)
P - Mike Paul, $2,471,121
P - Larry Burchart, $738,586
P - Jack Hamilton, $277,990
C - Ray Fosse, $474,815
3B - Max Alvis, $693,173
OF - Frank Baker, $901,016

Park: Sportsman's Park

Pitching: The dagger of Sam McDowell forced me to rework the pitching a few times over, because I couldn't just use Orioles there. I eventually settled on 3 Orioles and Red Faber of the White Sox in the rotation, with only two useful relievers in Bob Bowman and Max Lanier. I have 3 lousy Indians pitchers, because I had to use someone from that team.

Hitting: A trio of Cardinals form the core of this lineup: Johnny Mize, Joe Medwick, and Enos Slaughter. I was actually planning to use the much cheaper Tony Horton at 1B before the McDowell dagger freed up cash to use Mize. It's tough when you have $9M tied up at 1B between him and his backup, so I've used the cheapest possible backups almost everywhere else. When starters like C Gus Triandos and 2B John Kerr are out, the bottom of the order will be brutal. Aside from SS Bill Cissell, there's virtually no speed on this team. By default, Gene Woodling will lead off because he's the best OBP guy. Only Mize and Triandos hit many homers. We'll be playing in Sportsman's Park with +3 doubles to aid Medwick and Slaughter with their best weapons.

Fielding: Since these pitchers don't strike anyone out, I'm happy to have good gloves in the infield. Kerr and Kamm have A+ range, and Cissell brings A- range to the party, too. We'll make a decent number of errors, though, as 6 of my starters have "C" fielding.

Dagger 1: jstephen25
eliminating bridges
no cubs stadium

dagger 2: lennny
?eliminating Revering

offering 69 pilots for dagger

Lennyistall - You may dagger my 1949 Washington Senators.

dcpeterso's fighting Gregor Mendels will be playing their home games at San Diego Stadium.

Posted by redcped on 8/10/2024 2:29:00 PM (view original):

Posted by midknight on 8/10/2024 1:31:00 PM (view original):
Willie the Wonder and the No-Neck
Busch Stadium
$79,670,155

1959 New York Yankees
C Johnny Blanchard ($200.541)
OF Enos Slaughter ($423,354)
P Whitey Ford ($5,449,202)
P Bobby Shantz ($3,761,848)
P Ryne Duren ($2,394,324)
P Art Ditmar ($6,655,545)

1979 Seattle Mariners
1B Bruce Bochte ($4,832,800)
2B Julio Cruz ($3,768,820)
3B Bill Stein ($1,186,133)
SS Mario Mendoza ($1,180,718)
OF Ruppert Jones ($6,558,444)
OF Joe Simpson ($1,281,014)
OF Willie Horton ($3,635,643)

1969 Chicago White Sox
1B Pete Ward ($1,114,891)
3B Bill Melton ($3,854,567)
OF Walt Williams ($3,069,962)
P Tommy John ($4,879,123)
P Paul Edmondson ($2,073,998)
P Wilbur Wood ($2,571,475)

1979 St Louis Cardinals
C Ted Simmons ($4,177,386)
2B Mike Tyson ($835,511)
SS Garry Templeton ($6,288,937)
P Mark Littell ($2,723,435)
P Roy Thomas ($1,667,210)
P Pete Vuckovich ($5,085,474)

When I selected the 1959 Yankees in the first round, I never envisioned I would only use 2 of their hitters and their combined salaries would be a whopping $624K. No Mantle, Berra, Richardson or Kubek. Instead, I am using 7 hitters from the lowly 1979 Seatle Mariners with help from the 1969 White Sox and 1979 Cardinals to fill in the gaps. The daggers of Mantle and Carlos May were painful to say the least.

Offense
From Seattle, Bochte may be a value at first and offers a decent bat, Ruppert Jones is a good all-around player, Julio Cruz offers 49 SBs with a decent OBP, and last, Willie "The Wonder" Horton provide me with some nice power. I only hope he can catch a flyball on the odd occasion. From the White Sox I get a very average Bill Melton at 3B and one of the best nicknames in baseball to fill out my outfield: Walt "No-Neck" Williams. The Cardinals provide me with 2 excellent players: Ted Simmons (26 HRs) behind the plate and Garry Templeton (19 triples) at short.

Pitching
In a word: "Meh." From the Yankees, a not-so-good Whitey Ford and a very good Art Ditmar lead the rotation. Hopefully Ditmar will shine, and Ford will eat some innings to keep the bullpen rested. Bobby Shantz is very good, Littel, Thomas and Edmonson are okay at the back of the pen and Ryne Duren is a solid closer. Wilbur Wood will knuckle his way through mid-long relief. Tommy John and Pete Vukovich will round out the rotation and hopefully win as often as they lose.

Overall
I don't like this team, but it was fun to construct. It does provide some pop with 128 HRs. 48 triples and some speed with 3 players combining for 109 SBs. The staff will have its moments both good and bad, and I am hoping to manage an 80 win season - a .500 record would be a good thing for Willie the Wonder and the No-Neck.

I always find it interesting to see how I built the team compared with how you went. I'm a little surprised you didn't find a way to use Fulgham in the rotation, and the Willie Horton pick wasn't on my radar. My concern with him is having no fielding rating. I used a DH-only Ohtani in the outfield once and he made an obscene number of errors. His Fld% was like .750. I'll have my eye on that with Willie.

The other thing that will likely have you flinging your hat in the dugout will be the walk-prone bullpen. Some of those guys really struggle finding the plate. I'd better make sure I have a few patient hitters in my lineup!

Yeah...I got jammed up with dollars with Fulgham and I felt like I needed the IP's from the others. If I had kept Fulgham, I don't think I could have kept Shantz. Without Shantz my bullpen would have been worse than it is. Horton was a last-minute decision. I was going to go with Hendricks from STL in the outfield and a platoon of W.Williams and Buddy Bradford in the OF. Kubek would have been at short and I had shuffled the backups so I would have fit under the $80M cap. I decided to go with Templeton which made me take a look at Horton, but dump Hendricks. Hopefully Horton will hit more HRs than errors.

I love this theme. Even when being dealt and myself picking bad teams, it is such a fun team build.

BNL : 49 Cardinals 4+3 --- 79 Blue Jays 4+2 --- 49 Pirates 4+2 --- 79 Royals 3+3

Daggers - George Brett -- Sportsman Park -- Dave McKay

Current Payroll: $79,766,691

Royals Stadium Cadets

5923 Team PA @

.285

.348

.419

C/C

$39,320,582

1949 Saint Louis Cardinals (7)

1B 1949 Nippy Jones $2,299,004
3B 1949 Eddie Kazak $2,292,449
OF 1949 Enos Slaughter $6,553,141
3B 1949 Tommy Glaviano $1,936,815
P 1949 Gerry Staley $5,119,911
P 1949 Ted Wilks $3,217,597
P 1949 Harry Brecheen $5,785,541

1979 Toronto Blue Jays (6)

C 1979 Rick Cerone $3,303,254
SS 1979 Alfredo Griffin $4,556,257
OF 1979 Otto Velez $2,306,269
UTIL 1979 Tony Solaita $516,015
P 1979 Dave Lemanczyk $3,129,180
P 1979 Tom Underwood $4,723,621

1949 Pittsburgh Pirates (6)

2B 1949 Danny Murtaugh $1,118,557
OF 1949 Wally Westlake $4,403,407
1B 1949 Johnny Hopp $2,779,389
OF 1949 Tom Saffell $1,895,372
P 1949 Tiny Bonham $1,973,708
P 1949 Murry Dickson $5,424,429

1979 Kansas City Royals (6)

C 1979 Jamie Quirk $458,851
SS 1979 U.L. Washington $1,401,908
2B 1979 Frank White $3,499,894
P 1979 Dennis Leonard $5,264,961
P 1979 Larry Gura $4,943,229
P 1979 Renie Martin $863,932

More Innings than I need at 1737 but the Offense and PA and Salary and what talent I could find for the most part dictated my spending $40,446,109 on Pitching ... Chose Royal Stadium as Team HR/9 is 0.84 ...

I actually like the outfield of starters Slaughter Westlake and Velez with Saffell as Platoon ... Always liked Johnny Hopp who is listed as 1B but has 20 Games as an OF so he will be used there ...

Cannot say enough good about the Sparkling Middle Infield !!! (sic) ...
Ok so SS 1979 Alfredo Griffin IS Good with his C/A- (.956/5.40) Defense and 74 RC in PH
2B will be 1979 Frank White B/B (.982/5.44) at RC/27 "4" and 1949 Danny Murtaugh a "3"
3B has 1949 Eddie Kazak # with RC "6"

.304

.360

.420

.780

And 1949 Tommy Glaviano # with RC "6"

.267

.378

.404

.781

Have 5 SP with 226-236 IP and HR/9 0.75 1.26 1.12 0.68 0.91
Have a Good Long A in 1949 Gerry Staley with 1949 Ted Wilks

Very Interesting the Build ... No idea how I will do in such a conglomerate of Teams

Jonstephen25 - I’ll dagger Roberto Ortiz… your cheapest OF.

Best of luck!

claytonengel
1969 Greg Goossen is no longer eligible to be rostered.