Make an all time team using players from your home state

[williewilliejuan]

Seems like CA ought to feature Gwynn in RF.

 

[Chewbaccer]

And I could have put Josh Gibson at catcher, but I'm not sure how much I trust ***** League numbers. I'm also not high on dead ball era pitchers.

 

[calsnowskier]

Seems like CA ought to feature Gwynn in RF.

Over Ted or Barry?

 

[Chewbaccer]

My brother was born in NJ, but the family moved to Cali when he was about 1.

Give you 3 guesses where he says he is from when asked (and your first two guesses don't count).

1. The planet Earth
2. The western hemisphere
3. The United States of America

 

[calsnowskier]

And I could have put Josh Gibson at catcher, but I'm not sure how much I trust ***** League numbers. I'm also not high on dead ball era pitchers.

True on both accounts, but Gibson is generally accepted to be one of the top few catchers in history, at least with the bat.

Hard to compare him, though when you have no idea about competition and you have the era factor to consider.

 

[Chewbaccer]

Over Ted or Barry?

Gwynn did play RF though...

 

[Chewbaccer]

True on both accounts, but Gibson is generally accepted to be one of the top few catchers in history, at least with the bat.

Hard to compare him, though when you have no idea about competition and you have the era factor to consider.

Over 900 homers even though he passed away at 35 is nothing to sneeze at no matter the league, but it's just something I'm not sure about.

 

[calsnowskier]

1. The planet Earth
2. The western hemisphere
3. The United States of America

I hadn't realized the Olympics added "Argument Gymnastics" as an actual event, but well done.

9.8 9.7 9.4 9.9

Outside of the East German judge, you received Gold Medal scored all around there.

 

[williewilliejuan]

Over Ted or Barry?

Neither of them played many games in RF. Going by Chewy's rules, they shouldn't go there.

 

[calsnowskier]

Gwynn did play RF though...

Both Ted and Barry played a little early in their careers as well. The offensive step up would make it a no-brainer for whomever is managing the team.

 

[calsnowskier]

Gwynn played some Center as well. Maybe he would compete with DiMagio instead.

 

[Chewbaccer]

Both Ted and Barry played a little early in their careers as well. The offensive step up would make it a no-brainer for whomever is managing the team.

Barry played a total of 1 game in RF.

And if we're allowing swapping positions around, there around the turn of the millennium and after, I would have been more comfortable with Barry at first base than RF, even though he never played a game at first. Then you have room for Ted, Barry, Dimaggio and Tony Gwynn in the same lineup.

 

[Chewbaccer]

Gwynn played some Center as well. Maybe he would compete with DiMagio instead.

Without looking up the stats, it would be hard for me to picture Gwynn beating out DiMaggio

 

[Chewbaccer]

Barry played a total of 1 game in RF.

And if we're allowing swapping positions around, there around the turn of the millennium and after, I would have been more comfortable with Barry at first base than RF, even though he never played a game at first. Then you have room for Ted, Barry, Dimaggio and Tony Gwynn in the same lineup.

And that's also without me looking up who's the best 1B for CA that actually played first base.

 

[calsnowskier]

And that's also without me looking up who's the best 1B for CA that actually played first base.

Yea. I am doing this on very little research. I have no idea who would qualify at other positions. I have peaked at BBRef to confirm certain players were "from" Cali (I was mistaken about Reggie, for example), but I knew to look up Henderson, Bonds, Williams and DiMaggio. I didn't think of Gwynn (although I don't think he belongs in the same discussion with the others).

 

[williewilliejuan]

And that's also without me looking up who's the best 1B for CA that actually played first base.

Eddie Murray?

 

[Chewbaccer]

Eddie Murray?

Probably. I haven't looked up the options. But if we're changing positions around, Murray did play a few games at third, so you could put him there and put Bonds at first and have an OF of Williams, Dimaggio and Gwynn.

<waits to be told Mike Schmidt is from CA and will have to be moved over to SS>

 

[Omar 382]

Alright, fuck it. The AA (actually, having finished the list, that's generous) Delaware Major League Team:

C: Chris Widger
1B: Paul Goldschmidt (born in Wilmington; moved to Texas at around age 3; but fuck it)
2B: Delino DeShields
3B: Hans Lobert
SS: Ken Szotkiewicz (only shortstop I could find. 47 games for the Tigers with a .103 batting average)
LF: Kevin Mench (went to the same high school as me in Wilmington. Also a UD grad)
CF: Dave May
RF: Cliff Brumbaugh (49 PA, .591 OPS)

SP: Chris Short
SP: Sadie McMahon
SP: Bert Cunningham
SP: Ian Snell
SP: Huck Betts

...................

That's 20 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Thanks @Chewbaccer!

 

[Chewbaccer]

Alright, fuck it. The AA (actually, having finished the list, that's generous) Delaware Major League Team:

C: Chris Widger
1B: Paul Goldschmidt (born in Wilmington; moved to Texas at around age 3; but fuck it)
2B: Delino DeShields
3B: Hans Lobert
SS: Ken Szotkiewicz (only shortstop I could find. 47 games for the Tigers with a .103 batting average)
LF: Kevin Mench (went to the same high school as me in Wilmington. Also a UD grad)
CF: Dave May
RF: Cliff Brumbaugh (49 PA, .591 OPS)

SP: Chris Short
SP: Sadie McMahon
SP: Bert Cunningham
SP: Ian Snell
SP: Huck Betts

...................

That's 20 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Thanks @Chewbaccer!

No bench and no bullpen?

 

[Omar 382]

No bench and no bullpen?

Sure, but I'd have to start naming guys from my high school team...