1880-2000 MLB Playoff Game 1

[Ritzarmy]

UK

LINEUP
1. (L) Eddie Collins - 2B - AL West (HOF)
2. (R) Honus Wagner - SS - NL Central (HOF)
3. (L) Babe Ruth - LF - AL East (HOF)
4. (L) Mel Ott - RF - NL West (HOF)
5. (B) Chipper Jones - 3B- NL East
6. (R) Albert Belle - DH - AL Central
7. (L) Rafael Palmeiro - 1B- NL Central
8. (R) Thurmon Munson - C - AL East
9. (L) Jim Edmonds - CF - NL Central

ROTATION
1. (L) Warren Spahn SP - NL East (HOF)
2. (R) Bob Feller - SP - AL Central (HOF)
3. (L) Johan Santana - SP - AL Central
4. (R) Doc Gooden SP - NL East
5. (R) Orel Hershiser SP - NL West

BULLPEN
1. (L) Billy Wagner - CL - AL West
2. (R) John Wetteland - RP - AL West
3. (R) Eric Gagne - RP - NL West
4. (R) Ellis Kinder - RP - AL East

VS

RITZ

LINEUP
1. (B) Pete Rose - 3B - NL Central
2. (R) Derek Jeter - SS - AL East
3. (L) Barry Bonds - LF - NL Central (HOF)
4. (R) Hank Aaron - RF - NL East (HOF)
5. (L) David Ortiz - DH - AL Central
6. (L) Fred McGriff - 1B - NL West
7. (R) Torii Hunter - CF - AL West
8. (B) Ted Simmons - C - NL Central
9. (L) Lou Whitaker - 2B - AL Central

ROTATION
1. (R) Cy Young - SP - AL Central (HOF)
2. (L) Carl Hubbell - SP - NL West (HOF)
3. (R) Nolan Ryan - SP - AL West (HOF)
4. (L) Whitey Ford - SP - AL East (HOF)
5. (R) Billy Pierce - SP - NL West

BULLPEN
1. (R) Lee Smith - CL - AL East
2. (L) Sparky Lyle - RP - NL East
3. (R) Jason Isringhausen - RP - AL West
4. (R) Ted Abernathy - RP - NL East

 

[Ritzarmy]

UK – 3
RITZ – 4

VOTED – UK, Femur, Ritz, Stoke, Shane, Milk, 500

 

[UK Cowboy]

UK

 

[femurov]

UK by a hair...

 

[Ritzarmy]

Ritz.
I think our lineups are very close. However I see my pitching as where I win this matchup. He has a good rotation but my HOFers I feel could pull out the win. I got a high batting average and homerun/RBI hitting team which would be hard for any rotation to face.

 

[blstoker]

Ritz

 

[Shanemansj13]

Man...these are some great teams. Just like to say everyone did a great job in these mocks. I know we only had 8 but wow.

I feel like as a whole UK's lineup is better but the middle of the order is sick for Ritz. I favor Uk's bullpen but Ritz's rotation wins this one although I think UK did a great job getting some great non-HOFrs in his rotation.

Ritz barely, it was tough

 

[Nosferatu]

UK

 

[MilkSpiller22]

I got UK, again... if you want to be a pitching first team, then you can't have a below average bullpen!!!

 

[Pack 500]

Ritz

 

[UK Cowboy]

I normally don't Bitch, but in this particular matchup, I might have lost 2 games in a 7 game series. Maybe. Is what it is. Congrats on the win Ritz

 

[Ritzarmy]

I normally don't Bitch, but in this particular matchup, I might have lost 2 games in a 7 game series. Maybe. Is what it is. Congrats on the win Ritz

Thanks Troy. I truly felt you had the 2nd best team in this draft probably where we differ you think #1. I saw your great pick after great pick throughout the entire draft and I got really nervous. You have a outstanding team from top to bottom. I think having 4 HOF pitchers compared to 2 might have helped me in the voting. NOT saying being a HOF player makes them better because they might have not gotten in yet but I do feel it "might" have helped me. Your lineup was nasty and my hats off to you building that team.

 

[MilkSpiller22]

I normally don't Bitch, but in this particular matchup, I might have lost 2 games in a 7 game series. Maybe. Is what it is. Congrats on the win Ritz

Your offense was MUCH better, but his rotation was equally much better... And times are a changing around here... Pitching now beats offense, no matter what...

 

[Shanemansj13]

Your offense was MUCH better, but his rotation was equally much better... And times are a changing around here... Pitching now beats offense, no matter what...

It didnt in my matchup. His lineup was apparently much better than mine but my rotation was much much better and I lost. My rotation beat Femurs 5 out of 5 starters every time. So that's not how it works apparently. I still had a top 4-5 offense as well. Femur had a great lineup but UK's was comparable myabe better but my pitching was the best, other than Wlk. And dont tell me Ritz's BP won this bc it didnt. My BP was probably just as good considering nobody had HOFrs in their BP