pick a franchise

the four rushmore faces must be the highest-paid players on your roster

$80M cap
DH
no AAA
30 team league, balanced schedule, random alignment

claim your franchise below. i will take the last team not claimed

ANGELS guerrero, ryan, salmon, trout
ATHLETICS eckersly, foxx, henderson, jackson
ASTROS bagwell, berkman, biggio, ryan
BLUEJAYS alomar, carter, delgado, halladay JESTERS
BRAVES aaron, jones, maddux, spahn
BREWERS cooper, fingers, molitor, yount
CARDINALS brock, gibson, hornsby, musial NEABASEBALL
CUBS banks, sandberg, santo, williams
DIAMONDBACKS goldschmidt, gonzales, johnson, schilling HOOPSRUS
DODGERS drysdale, koufax, robinson, snider
GIANTS bonds, mays, mccovey, posey
INDIANS feller, speaker, thome, vizquel TRIBE_FAN_09
MARINERS griffey, hernandez, martinez, suzuki
MARLINS conine, lowell, sheffield, stanton
METS hernandez, piazza, seaver, wright
NATIONALS carter, dawson, guerrero, raines BRONXCHEER
ORIOLES palmer, ripken, robinson, robinson
PADRES gwynn, hoffman, jones, winfield
PHILLIES ashburn, carlton, roberts, schmidt
PIRATES clemente, mazeroski, stargell, wagner
RANGERS beltre, rodriguez, ryan, young
RAYS longoria, price, shields, zobrist
REDS bench, larkin, morgan, rose
RED SOX martinez, ortiz, williams, yastrzemski
ROCKIES gallaraga, helton, tulowitski, walker
ROYALS brett, quisenberry, saberhagen, white RMARSH915
TIGERS cabrera, cobb, greenberg, kaline SCZCUBELEK
TWINS carew, killebrew, oliva, puckett
WHITESOX baines, konerko, minoso, thomas
YANKEES dimaggio, gehrig, mantle, ruth

Cardinals

By franchise, do u mean that Cleveland includes the Naps and Blues or just the Indians?

Also, what about ballparks?

i meant whatever major league baseball means, but i will settle for whatever WhatIfSports means

ballparks: choose one your franchise used

here, i stole this from the juice:

ANGELS:
Los Angeles Angels:  1961-1964 (A.L.)
California Angels:  1965-1996 (A.L.)
Anaheim Angels:  1997-2005 (A.L.)
Los Angeles Angels:  2006-2007 (A.L.)
Anaheim Angels:  2008-2014 (A.L.)

ASTROS:
Houston Colt .45's:  1962-1964 (N.L.)
Houston Astros:  1965-2012 (N.L.)
Houston Astros:  2013-2014 (A.L.)

ATHLETICS:
Philadelphia Athletics:  1901-1954 (A.L.)
Kansas City Athletics:  1955-1967 (A.L.)
Oakland Athletics:  1968-2014 (A.L.)

BLUE JAYS:
Toronto Blue Jays:  1977-2014 (A.L.)

BRAVES:
Boston Beaneaters:  1885-1906 (N.L.)
Boston Doves:  1907-1910 (N.L.)
Boston Braves:  1911-1935 (N.L.)
Boston Bees:  1936-1940 (N.L.)
Boston Braves:  1941-1952 (N.L.)
Milwaukee Braves:  1953-1965 (N.L.)
Atlanta Braves:  1966-2014 (N.L.)

BREWERS:
Seattle Pilots:  1969 (A.L.)
Milwaukee Brewers:  1970-1997 (A.L.)
Milwaukee Brewers:  1998-2014 (N.L.)

CARDINALS:
St. Louis Browns:  1885-1891 (A.A.)
St. Louis Browns:  1892-1898 (N.L.)
St. Louis Perfectos:  1899 (N.L.)
St. Louis Cardinals:  1900-2014 (N.L.)

CUBS:
Chicago White Stockings:  1885-1889 (N.L.)
Chicago Colts:  1890-1897 (N.L.)
Chicago Orphans:  1898-1902 (N.L.)
Chicago Cubs:  1903-2014 (N.L.)

DIAMONDBACKS:
Arizona Diamondbacks:  1998-2014 (N.L.)

DODGERS:
Brooklyn Grays:  1885-1886 (A.A.)
Brooklyn Dodgers:  1887 (A.A.) (known as the Brooklyn Grays in B-R.com)
Brooklyn Bridegrooms:  1888-1889 (A.A.)
Brooklyn Bridegrooms:  1890-1898 (N.L.)
Brooklyn Superbas:  1899-1910 (N.L.)
Brooklyn Dodgers:  1911-1915 (N.L.)
Brooklyn Robins:  1916-1930 (N.L.)
Brooklyn Dodgers:  1931-1957 (N.L.)
Los Angeles Dodgers:  1958-2014 (N.L.)

GIANTS:
New York Giants:  1885-1957 (N.L.)
San Francisco Giants:  1958-2014 (N.L.)

INDIANS:
Cleveland Blues:  1901-1902 (A.L.) (in B-R.com, in 1902, they were known as the Bronchos)
Cleveland Naps:  1903-1915 (A.L.)
Cleveland Indians:  1916-2014 (A.L.)

MARINERS:
Seattle Mariners:  1977-2014 (A.L.)

MARLINS:
Florida Marlins:  1993-2011 (N.L.)
Miami Marlins:  2012-2014 (N.L.)

METS:
New York Mets:  1962-2014 (N.L.)

NATIONALS:
Montreal Expos:  1969-2004 (N.L.)
Washington Nationals:  2005-2014 (N.L.)

ORIOLES:
Milwaukee Brewers:  1901 (A.L.)
St. Louis Browns:  1902-1953 (A.L.)
Baltimore Orioles:  1954-2014 (A.L.)

PADRES:
San Diego Padres:  1969-2014 (N.L.)

PHILLIES:
Philadelphia Quakers:  1885-1889 (N.L.)
Philadelphia Phillies:  1890-1943 (N.L.)
Philadelphia Blue Jays:  1944-1945 (N.L.)
Philadelphia Phillies:  1946-2014 (N.L.)

PIRATES:
Pittsburgh Alleghenys:  1885-1886 (A.A.)
Pittsburgh Alleghenys:  1887-1890 (N.L.)
Pittsburgh Pirates:  1891-2014 (N.L.)

RANGERS:
Washington Senators:  1961-1971 (A.L.)
Texas Rangers:  1972-2014 (A.L.)

RAYS:
Tampa Bay Devil Rays:  1998-2007 (A.L.)
Tampa Bay Rays:  2008-2014 (A.L.)

REDS:
Cincinnati Red Stockings:  1885-1889 (A.A.)
Cincinnati Reds:  1890-2014 (N.L.)

RED SOX:
Boston Americans:  1901-1907 (A.L.)
Boston Red Sox:  1908-2014 (A.L.)

ROCKIES:
Colorado Rockies:  1993-2014 (N.L.)

ROYALS:
Kansas City Royals:  1969-2014 (A.L.)

TIGERS:
Detroit Tigers:  1901-2014 (A.L.)

TWINS:
Washington Senators:  1901-1960 (A.L.)
Minnesota Twins:  1961-2014 (A.L.)

WHITE SOX:
Chicago White Sox:  1901-2014 (A.L.)

YANKEES:
New York Highlanders:  1903-1912 (A.L.)
New York Yankees:  1913-2014 (A.L.)

 

Royals please.

Astros please.

Toronto

any chance of increasing the cap to $100 million?

Based on the theme of this league I'm guessing your franchise four need to be from a season that they actually played for your franchise.  In other words, the idiots who voted Joe Carter in over Bautista, Stieb, etc would limit me to Joe Carter's Blue Jay years.

that is correct

which puts the top salary of most of your players up around $4.8M

old Joe wasn't so much, was he

Posted by wylie715 on 7/24/2015 2:17:00 PM (view original):
any chance of increasing the cap to $100 million?

that would make it too easy

IF THIS ISN'T GOING TO GET STARTED UNTIL ABOUT AUGUST 3RD OR SO,  I'LL TAKE EXPOS/NATS

GOING TO VERMONT FER 10 DAYS. 

great idea - I like the challenge of the 80M. We'll take the Diamondbacks.

TIGERS for me