Posted by thunder1008 on 11/16/2011 3:23:00 AM (view original):
OK, now I have a new quest.  Call it the "ultrabalanced" OL team -- nothing conspicuously tanked.  Eight position players who have at least 4800 combined PA's -- no throwaway scrubs to hit my minimum.  Solid BA, OBP, OPS/OPS#.  Decent power (can't be all singles hitters), decent speed (can't be a station to station team).  Good starters, good bullpen.  I'm not going to hang numbers on these.  The team will be "honor code," and we all know when we're tanking a given category.  Defense has to be solid (at least B/B, C+/A+, something like that, except at positions where we often punt D like 1B and RF).  Catcher's arm has to be good (I never tank that anyway).  Hitting/defense and pitching have to be balanced (no variation greater than 42/38 -- 38/42).  Anything I didn't think of?  I don't consider categories like 2B, 3B or K's categories that you tank or don't tank.

Oh yeah... it also has to be good.  Ha.    

Thunder, here's the team I've come up with.    C 1995 Gary Carter   1B  1997 Dan Driessen    2B 1986 Tony Bernazard      3B 1996 Scott Brosius    SS  1983Alan Trammell    OF 1997 Bernie Williams   OF   1993 Marquis Grissom   OF  2009 Carl Crawford.   Their aggregate numbers are:  PA4871   HR142      SB218   AVE .303   OBP.374   SLUG .468   FIELD B+/C+(very close to B-).    SALARY 41,777,077   My guys almost all do the same thing.  My team has a slight advantage over yours in Hr's,Sb's and Defence, and yours has a slight edge in Ave., OBP and Slug(I have more homers so your slugging advantage must mean that you are loaded in 2b's & 3b's) your pitching is very similar to what I would do.   Without filling in with low ATbat specialist, it was harder to do than I thought, with better than average defense, balance throughout and 42mil to work with. Problem is teams like this may underperform in an actual season.   At  just under 42mil a pitchers park may still be required, and the righty homers may never come.