The league 's dedicated to the forgotten players who made it to the Big Leagues but did not accumulate enough AB/IP to make it to our database. Let's honor the ghosts who have been flushed out of WIStory!

Here's the idea: Find a player at baseball-reference.com who never got to 50 at-bats or 25 innings in a single season. It's okay if this player played more than one season, so long as he never batted/pitched enough to be in the WIS database. Choose one team that he played on, and twist his teammates into an $80M team. (All pre-1920 players are blacklisted; you are allowed to choose a pre-1920 team, but all the twisted players must come from seasons after 1919.)

Now the kicker: Each owner will receive 60 AAA batters and 20 AAA pitchers, all of them Way Above Average. You will select one of these rookies -- AND ONLY ONE -- and rename him (with your ghost player's name), and call him up. Because this rookie is Way Above Average, and because of our relatively low cap, he will be an impact player in this theme. But choose carefully: this is the only rookie you will have access to all season.

NOTE: If your ghost was a batter in real life, you must call up an AAA batter; if he was a pitcher, you must call up an AAA pitcher. I won't be a stickler for exact positions (C or OF doesn't matter, nor SP or RP), but on the batter/pitcher issue there's no leeway.

ALSO: Your "25th" player (the one you send down to the minors to make room for your ghost) can be either a real life teammate or any 200K player in the database; however, if he is the latter, he must never appear in a game. Use of ineligible players will result in automatic forfeits.

SUMMARY
No: DH, WW, Clones, Trading
1920-2016 players only
$80M Cap
60 AAA batters/20 AAA pitchers -- Auto, Fictitious Names, Way Above Average
Park must be the one your ghost's team played in
League Alignment - Chronological
Ghosts/Teams are exclusive

NOTE: The one change I made from Season One’s rules is that franchises/selected seasons making the playoffs will be blacklisted for all future seasons. (Ex. If you make the playoffs with Ozzie Canseco – 1990 Oakland Athletics, the 1990 Oakland Athletics will be blacklisted for future seasons. A team could, however, choose Ozzie Canseco – 1992 St. Louis Cardinals for the following season.)

By the way, here are the salary ranges for Way Above Average rookies:

BATTERS: $3,875,000 to $9,651,076
STARTING PITCHERS: $3,450,000 to $9,174,893
RELIEF PITCHERS: $2,775,000 to $5,246,064

Rookies will be auto/fictitious names. Using the AAA thread, you should be able to ID all of them.

BLACKLISTED TEAMS:
1933 St. Louis Cardinals
1938 Chicago Cubs
1966 New York Yankees
1970 Chicago Cubs
1972 Los Angeles Dodgers
1975 Philadelphia Phillies
1982 Kansas City Royals
1989 New York Mets

1. razorclams - Mike Palm (1948 Boston Red Sox)
2. joerat1 - Fritz Brickell (1958 New York Yankees)
3. reddtrain - Brian McCall (1962 Chicago White Sox)
4. combalt - Elmo Plaskett (1962 Pittsburgh Pirates)
5. doubletruck - Corky Withrow (1963 St. Louis Cardinals)
6. finn2030 - Cotton Nash (1967 Chicago White Sox)
7. Jtpsops - Candy Harris (1967 Houston Astros)
8. 0soup4u - Dick Thoenen (1967 Philadelphia Phillies)
9. midknight - Jan Dukes (1969 Washington Senators)
10. mars2010 - Herb Washington (1974 Oakland A's)
11. zdedalus - Danny Godby (1974 St. Louis Cardinals)
12. dlchow - Gary Weiss (1980 Los Angeles Dodgers)
13. midknight - Arturo DeFreites (1978 Cincinnati Reds)
14. willclark - Marty Pevey (1989 Montreal Expos)
15. reddtrain - Eddie Pye (1995 Los Angeles Dodgers)
16. sjh0825 - John Leroy (1997 Atlanta Braves)
17. mars2010 - Pete Rose Jr. (1997 Cincinnati Reds)
18. steve9955 - Kevin Tolar (2003 Boston Red Sox)
19. razorclams - Oswaldo Navarro (2006 Seattle Mariners)
20. CarlosVal - Brian Falkenborg (2008 Los Angeles Dodgers)
21. finn2030 - Matt Mangini (2010 Seattle Mariners)
22. gees51 - Nate Spears (2011 Boston Red Sox)
23. doubletruck - Brad Mills (2012 Anaheim Angels)
24. d_rock97 - Akeel Morris (2015 New York Mets)


sitemail list:
mars2010; razorclams; joerat1; reddtrain; doubletruck; finn2030; 0soup4u; midknight; zdedalus; dlchow; sjh0825; steve9955; CarlosVal; gees51; d_rock97; willclark; Jtpsops; combalt

Fritz Brickell - 1958 Yankees

John LeRoy 1997 Atlanta Braves.
Oh by the way, John tied the MLB record for best win pct (1.000) and best e.r.a (0.00) in major league history. But no minimum innings. One game with 2 innings of 1 hit ball (3 walks). He was drafted by Tampa Bay in the expansion draft but never played for them.
He died in 2001 from a heart attack and a brain aneurysm at the age of 26. He was still playing that year hoping to get back to the majors.

I debated taking him in each of the first two seasons. I'm going to go with...

Herb Washington (1974 Oakland A's).

Charles Finley hired Herb Washington as a pinch runner. He was a world class sprinter. He stole 31 bases in the 2 years with Oakland.

Posted by joerat1 on 9/21/2017 9:59:00 AM (view original):
Fritz Brickell - 1958 Yankees

Ok, Fritz was with the Yankees but the day before the 1961 season he was traded to the Angels. He was the starting SS in the Angels first game ever. He was 1 for 4, but committed 2 errors at SS.

Gary Weiss, 1980 Dodgers

Mike Palm, 1948, P, Red Sox

We're rolling along at a pretty good rate here. I will send out the league number once we have 12 teams in.

I'll give new life to Corky Withrow, a .000-hitting outfielder with the 1963 St. Louis Cardinals.

I'll jump back in with Brian McCall of the 1962 White Sox.

No wagers on how many times I call him Brian McCann.

I will take NATE SPEARS 2011 RED SOXS