Posted by redcped on 3/27/2023 5:50:00 PM (view original):

Posted by Beernoser on 3/27/2023 5:15:00 PM (view original):
jpeterso's roster is good.

He got a 7 million, 8 million, nine million and 10 million all on the roster.

Heilman
Randy Jones
Mays
Marichal

And the daggering was well-designed against him, too. Just managed to figure it all out anyway somehow.

oh, no, you guys did a good job. I almost got Ty Cobb in there too but I would have lost a little too much pitching. As it is, my middle infield is, uh, below par.

Just4 roster is good

TEAM NAME : Venus and Mars
STADIUM: Comiskey I
$79,735,638
45 CUBS (7):
P - Paul Derringer
P- Claude Passeau
P - Hank Borowy
P - Hy Vandenberg
P - Paul Erickson
OF - Ed Sauer
C- Len Rice
45 BLUE JAYS:
P - Dick Mauney
P - Oscar Judd
P - Vern Kennedy
OF - Jimmy Wasdell
1B - Jimmie Foxx
2B - Tony Daniels
25 WHITE SOX:
P - Ted Blankenship
OF - Spencer Harris
1B - Earl Sheely
2B - Eddie Collins
3B - Willie Kamm
SS - John Kane
35 TIGERS:
P - Elden Auker
C - Mickey Cochrane
SS - Billy Rogell
3B - Flea Clifton
OF - Goose Goslin
OF - Pete Fox

I'm not very optimistic about this team's chances. The two daggers really hit my pitching plans hard.

Posted by Beernoser on 3/27/2023 5:15:00 PM (view original):
jpeterso's roster is good.

He got a 7 million, 8 million, nine million and 10 million all on the roster.

Heilman
Randy Jones
Mays
Marichal

Inconceivable!

TEAM NAME: The Terrific Big Train Ride
STADIUM: Griffith
$79,597,371

1925 Washington Senators (7)
1B - Joe Harris
2B - Bucky Harris
2B - Spencer Adams
OF - Sam Rice
OF - Nemo Leibold
P - Walter Johnson
P - Firpo Marberry

1965 Kansas City Athletics (6)
C - Billy Bryan
C - Rene Lachemann
SS - Bert Campaneris
P - Fred Talbot
P - Catfish Hunter
P - Jim Dickson

1975 Chicago Cubs (6)
3B - Bill Madlock
SS - Dave Rosello
OF - Jose Cardenal
OF - Champ Summers
P - Steve Stone
P - Tom Dettore

1975 New York Mets (6)
1B - Ed Kranepool
3B - Joe Torre
OF - Rusty Staub
P - Tom Seaver
P - Ken Sanders
P - Skip Lockwood

jonstephen's roster is good

et's roster is good

eman's roster is good

redcped's roster is good

calhoop's roster is good

kentol's roster is good

vilefileman's roster is good

midnight's roster is good

No use for a name
Comiskey Park (i)
$79,984,509

POS	PLAYER	TEAM
1B	Phil Todt	1925 Boston Red Sox
C	John Bischoff	1925 Boston Red Sox
OF	Ike Boone	1925 Boston Red Sox
OF	Tex Vache	1925 Boston Red Sox
SS	Dud Lee	1925 Boston Red Sox
P	Ray Francis	1925 Boston Red Sox
1B	Bill Nagel	1945 Chicago White Sox
2B	Roy Schalk	1945 Chicago White Sox
3B	Tony Cuccinello	1945 Chicago White Sox
3B	Floyd Baker	1945 Chicago White Sox
OF	Johnny Dickshot	1945 Chicago White Sox
SS	Danny Reynolds	1945 Chicago White Sox
P	Buck Ross	1945 Chicago White Sox
OF	Ken Singleton	1975 Baltimore Orioles
P	Dyar Miller	1975 Baltimore Orioles
P	Jim Palmer	1975 Baltimore Orioles
P	Paul Mitchell	1975 Baltimore Orioles
P	Grant Jackson	1975 Baltimore Orioles
P	Doyle Alexander	1975 Baltimore Orioles
2B	Davey Lopes	1975 Los Angeles Dodgers
C	Steve Yeager	1975 Los Angeles Dodgers
OF	Bill Buckner	1975 Los Angeles Dodgers
P	Don Sutton	1975 Los Angeles Dodgers
P	Andy Messersmith	1975 Los Angeles Dodgers
P	Al Downing	1975 Los Angeles Dodgers

This team was drafted poorly, I think. We were so heavy on pitching that we didn't really have many good options for position players. Our SS options were pretty poor. Initially we planned on using Belanger at $3.9M and then pair him up with one of our sub $1M options. Luckily for me, when the daggers went out to my 2B options, they missed Davey Lopes and his ability to not only play 2B but also play good OF defense and average SS defense. We drafted Bud Connolly and Danny Reynolds who totaled $932.5K of what would be wasted salary. That allowed us to pick up 2B Lopes to play SS and Ray Schalk was drafted to play 2B. Lopes doesn't come cheap but he does provide much needed speed. Schalk is a nice cheap 2B option.

Although we had a lot of pitching options they were mostly Baltimore or Los Angeles players. This limited who I could use from there teams out on the field. Other than a $200K mop up pitcher, Ray Francis, Boston had no pitching. But we need that cheap salary so we picked him up and another cheap mop up, $330K Buck Ross. That helps absorb some of the salary we spent on Lopes. But now we're up to nearly $1.5M in wasted salary. The rest of the pitching spots went to the Orioles (5) and Dodgers (3). We'll be running a 3 man rotation of Jim Palmer, Andy Messersmith, and Don Sutton. Doyle Alexander will also provide some spot starts and long relief innings. The bullpen consists of: Paul Mitchell, Grant Jackson, and Dyar Miller from the Orioles and the 10th spot to Al Downing.

Taking 5 Oriole pitchers left us with one, maybe two, pos player spots. We need OF help so we selected OF Ken Singleton over Don Baylor. Singleton doesn't come cheap but he provides solid offense. Utilizing Lopes at SS and the 3 pitchers I took, the Dodgers were down to two, maybe 3 options. I still had 3B Ron Cey, 1B Steve Garvey, and platoon 2B Lee Lacy as high performing options on offense but I was out of 2B spots and Garvey was too expensive at $6.6M. So I focused on 3B and trying to get Cey on the team. After some quick math I calculated that we most likely wouldn't have enough for him due to the cost of my remaining bench players. Damn!

I still needed Sox players from both teams, at least 3 from Chicago and 4 from Boston still. The only good news is they had cheap options. None were very good. From Chicago, we picked up both of our 3B: Tony Cuccinello and Floyd Baker, OF Johnny Dickshot, and back-up 1B Bill Nagel. Nagel would have been a painful dagger as he was my only sub $1M 1B and zero platooning or secondary position options. Next cheapest 1B was over $2M, which would have been wasted. This season, I have learned the value of drafting the teams with cheap players! That gave Chicago 7 players and we were left with 4 Boston and two Dodger spots to fill.

From Boston we picked up 1B Phil Todt, C John Bischoff, and OF's Ike Boone and Tex Vache. We still needed another C and the Dodgers Steve Yeager filled that spot. We had one OF spot left to fill and really wanted to draft Willie Crawford but we were over the cap with him so we had do downgrade to Bill Buckner. This left us with a $500K surplus so we decided to swap out Connolly from Boston for a slightly better defensive SS, Dud Lee.

Although we effectively used up all but $15K of available salary, this team sucks! At least on offense. We have strong starting pitchers and decent relievers but we have only 1346 innings total, including my two mop ups who are contributing 71 of those innings. They are going to cost us games this season for sure. But out offense is horrendous. They remind me of an expansion team from the 60's. Our offense is built around Singleton, Lopes, Cuccinello, Dickshot, and Boone. We barely play defense, have no power, and don't get people on base. If we don't pitch shutouts we're going to lose games.

Great job fellas! You have effectively given me a team worthy of the basement this season. Well played and good luck!

Sorry for the long write up but I was already in the mode after the juice tourney draft and this one just kind of went the same way.