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Choose an EXCLUSIVE league and season from 1957-2017 (e.g. 1971 NL or 2015 AL). You must then roster exactly 5 gold glove winners from that league and season, no twists on those 5 gold glovers. Here are the links with all gold gloves:

AL = https://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/gold_glove_al.shtml
NL = https://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/gold_glove_nl.shtml

Then fill out the rest of your roster with teammates from your 5 gold glover teams, twisted to any season of their career.

Notes:
- in the case where there are multiple gold glove winners on the same team, you ARE allowed to use a gold glover as a teammate, even if you choose not to twist that teammate to a different season. So technically you could end up with more than 5 GGs on your roster in this scenario.
- there is no min or max requirement on number of teammates you twist from each of your 5 teams.

Cap: $100M
Standard 24 team league
NO: Clones, DH, WW, AAA, Trades, or Injuries
Ballpark: any park used during the season you chose
Alignment: Random
Team name: reference your year and league

Please reserve a spot by reply in this thread with your exclusive choice of league and year, and list your 5 gold glovers.

Owners - Year/League

1 - Nebhusker - 1999 AL
1B-Rafael Palmeiro-Tex, SS-Omar Vizquel-Cle, OF-Shawn Green-Tor, OF-Ken Griffey Jr.-Sea, OF-Bernie Williams-NYY

2 - mars2010 - 1985 NL
OF-Dale Murphy (ATL), 1B - Keith Hernandez (NYM), 2B - Ryne Sandberg (CHI), 3B - Tim Wallach (MTL), SS- Ozzie Smith (STL)

3 - craig479 - 1977 NL
BENCH (CIN), GARVEY (LAD), SCHMIDT (PHI), MORGAN (CIN), PARKER (PIT)

4 - 0soup4u - 1960 NL
C - Crandall, 3B - Boyer, SS - Banks, OF - Moon, OF - Mays

5 - midknight - 1957 ML (no split in '57)
Shantz (P); Lollar (C); Mays (OF); Hodges (1B) and Malzone (3B)

6 - toddcommish - 1997 NL
P - Greg Maddux (ATL), C - Charles Johnson (FLA), 2B - Craig Biggio (HOU), 3B - Ken Caminiti (SD), OF - Barry Bonds (SF)

7 - craig479 - 1967 AL
FREEHAN (DET), SCOTT (BOS), YAZ (BOS), BLAIR (BAL), KALINE (DET)

8 - schwarze - 1991 NL
1B-Will Clark (SF), 2B-Ryne Sandberg (ChC), SS-Ozzie Smith (StL), OF-Barry Bonds (Pit), OF-Tony Gwynn (SD)

9 - chisock - 1997 AL
C - Ivan Rodriguez (TEX). 2B - Chuck Knoblauch (MIN), SS - Omar Vizquel (CLE), OF - Bernie Williams (NYY), OF - Ken Griffey Jr (SEA)

10 - jfranco77 - 2015 NL
Greinke (LAD), Arenado (COL), Gordon (MIA), Goldy (AZ), Yadi (STL)

11 - calnah - 1968 NL
C Johnny Bench (CIN), 3B Ron Santo (CHC), SS Dal Maxvill (STL), OF Willie Mays (SFG), OF Roberto Clemente (PIT)

12 - VanMeter - 1984 AL
Buddy Bell (3B TEX), Alan Trammell (SS DET), Dave Winfield (OF NYY), Eddie Murray (1B BAL) and Dwight Evans (OF BOS)

13 - finn2030 - 2011 NL
P - Clayton Kershaw (LAD), C - Yadier Molina (StL), 2B - Brandon Phillips (Cin), 3B - Placido Polanco (Phi), OF - Gerardo Parra (Ari)

14 - gees51 - 1966 NL
GIBSON (StL), ROSEBORO (LAD), SANTOS (ChC), MAYS (SF), CLEMENTE (Pit)

15 - kentol - 1976 NL
OF Maddox, OF Cedeno, OF Geronimo, 1B Garvey, SS Concepcion

16 - specsman - 1996 NL
P Greg Maddux, 1B Mark Grace, 3B Ken Caminiti, SS Barry Larkin, OF Barry Bonds

17 - razorclams - 1987 NL
smith SS cards, dawson OF Cubs, gywnn OF Padres, davis OF Reds, LaValliere C Pirates

18 - reddtrain - 2005 NL
1B Derrek Lee CHC, 2B Luis Castillo FLA, OF Andruw Jones ATL, OF Bobby Abreu PHI, OF Jim Edmonds STL

19 - hurkman - 1998 NL
SP Maddux ATL, SS Ordonez NYM, 3B Rolen PHI, OF Bonds SFG, OF Walker COL

20 - mightyhalos - 1982 AL
SP Ron Guidry NYY, C. Bob Boone Cal, OF Dwight Evans Bos, 2B Frank White KC, SS Robin Yount Mil

21 - dlchow - 1972 AL

BAL Brooks Robinson, CAL Ken Berry, BOS Carlton Fisk, NYY Bobby Murcer, DET Ed Brinkman

22 - dcmatcheck - 1980 AL
Mike Norris (Oakland), Cecil Cooper (Milwaukee), Alan Trammell(Detroit), Willie Wilson (KC), and Fred Lynn (Boston)

23 - SteveIzzy - 1994 NL
Maddux ATL, Pagnozzi STL, Bagwell HOU, Bonds SF, Grissom MTL

24 - pick1or2 - 1961 AL
B Richardson NYY, Frank Lary DETR, Brooks Robinson BALT, Luis Aparicio CWS, Jim Piersall CLEV

Cool theme. Count me in. Team - TBD.

Please note I updated the theme so you only need to select 5 gold gloves from your season/league. The original rule was too restrictive for building a roster, especially position players. Selecting 5 should give us plenty of options.

I'll give it a go with 1977 NL...thx

Question. Can you roster more than 5 if you wish and then be able to use twists from all gold glover's teams?

Posted by schwarze on 5/19/2018 4:46:00 PM (view original):
Question. Can you roster more than 5 if you wish and then be able to use twists from all gold glover's teams?

Hmmm, good question, but I think for this iteration we'll say no. . . .you must roster exactly 5 gold glovers and then you can only twist from those 5 teams.

I'll play. AL 1957

Followup question.

I pick 5 gold glovers but I realize two play for the same team. So to maximize my twist opportunities, I change one of those gold glovers to a different guy (so I now have five teams to choose from). Since the gold glover I dropped is a teammate of one of the gold glovers I selected, I am now allowed to twist this other gold glover. Do I have to twist him or can I keep the same year (i.e., in effect, selecting 6 gold glovers)?

Posted by schwarze on 5/20/2018 10:04:00 AM (view original):
Followup question.

I pick 5 gold glovers but I realize two play for the same team. So to maximize my twist opportunities, I change one of those gold glovers to a different guy (so I now have five teams to choose from). Since the gold glover I dropped is a teammate of one of the gold glovers I selected, I am now allowed to twist this other gold glover. Do I have to twist him or can I keep the same year (i.e., in effect, selecting 6 gold glovers)?

In that case you can keep him the same season, so yes in effect you could end up with more than 5 gold glovers on your team in a scenario such as this.

I'll take a shot at this... my first build will be the 1997 NL Gold Glovers.

Additional question: Do we have to have any particular number of twisted teammates, or can I theoretically twist just one team?

Posted by toddcommish on 5/20/2018 11:50:00 AM (view original):
I'll take a shot at this... my first build will be the 1997 NL Gold Glovers.

Additional question: Do we have to have any particular number of twisted teammates, or can I theoretically twist just one team?

No min or max on the number of teammates from each of your 5 teams. You are correct, you could theoretically only twist teammates from 1 of the 5 teams.

If 2 teams are allowed, I'll drop a 2nd team in 1967 AL...thx

Posted by craig479 on 5/20/2018 1:47:00 PM (view original):
If 2 teams are allowed, I'll drop a 2nd team in 1967 AL...thx

Absolutely no problem, thanks craig!

Please post your 5 gold gloves once you know them. . . that will help me out with verifying rosters later, thanks. Here are mine:

1999 AL
1B - Rafael Palmeiro - Tex
SS - Omar Vizquel - Cle
OF - Shawn Green - Tor
OF - Ken Griffey Jr. - Sea
OF - Bernie Williams - NYY

I'm going to have to make major concessions somewhere to get under $100M, these guys are all expensive.