Favourite Team AFTER the Expos were stolen from me (still cheered for them as they were in a different league and inter-league play was non-existent to rare back then):
Infielders: c - Ernie Whitt 1b - John Olerud 2b - Roberto Alomar ss - Tony Fernandez 3b - Kelly Gruber (Josh Donaldson CLOSE 2nd)
Outfielders: rf - Joe Carter cf - Devon White lf - George Bell
Pitcher - Roy Halladay Middle Reliever - Mark Eichhorn Closer - Tom Henke
Favourite Team AFTER the Expos were stolen from me (still cheered for them as they were in a different league and inter-league play was non-existent to rare back then):
Infielders: c - Ernie Whitt 1b - John Olerud 2b - Roberto Alomar ss - Tony Fernandez 3b - Kelly Gruber (Josh Donaldson CLOSE 2nd)
Outfielders: rf - Joe Carter cf - Devon White lf - George Bell
Pitcher - Roy Halladay Middle Reliever - Mark Eichhorn Closer - Tom Henke
DH - Edwin Encarnacion
Encarnacion over Carlos Delgado?
I wish I was a sacrifice, but somehow still lived on.
Favourite Team AFTER the Expos were stolen from me (still cheered for them as they were in a different league and inter-league play was non-existent to rare back then):
Infielders: c - Ernie Whitt 1b - John Olerud 2b - Roberto Alomar ss - Tony Fernandez 3b - Kelly Gruber (Josh Donaldson CLOSE 2nd)
Outfielders: rf - Joe Carter cf - Devon White lf - George Bell
Pitcher - Roy Halladay Middle Reliever - Mark Eichhorn Closer - Tom Henke
DH - Edwin Encarnacion
Encarnacion over Carlos Delgado?
I remember Delgado as more of a horrible 1st basemen who could hit. I wasn’t really a big fan of his to be honest. EE was electric man... the parrot and all that. Just a lot of fun. Good times.
Favourite Team AFTER the Expos were stolen from me (still cheered for them as they were in a different league and inter-league play was non-existent to rare back then):
Infielders: c - Ernie Whitt 1b - John Olerud 2b - Roberto Alomar ss - Tony Fernandez 3b - Kelly Gruber (Josh Donaldson CLOSE 2nd)
Outfielders: rf - Joe Carter cf - Devon White lf - George Bell
Pitcher - Roy Halladay Middle Reliever - Mark Eichhorn Closer - Tom Henke
DH - Edwin Encarnacion
Encarnacion over Carlos Delgado?
Absolutely! Edwin is a beast man.
I'm curious as to where Clemens is? He won 2 Cy Youngs when he played for you!
Favourite Team AFTER the Expos were stolen from me (still cheered for them as they were in a different league and inter-league play was non-existent to rare back then):
Infielders: c - Ernie Whitt 1b - John Olerud 2b - Roberto Alomar ss - Tony Fernandez 3b - Kelly Gruber (Josh Donaldson CLOSE 2nd)
Outfielders: rf - Joe Carter cf - Devon White lf - George Bell
Pitcher - Roy Halladay Middle Reliever - Mark Eichhorn Closer - Tom Henke
DH - Edwin Encarnacion
Encarnacion over Carlos Delgado?
Absolutely! Edwin is a beast man.
I'm curious as to where Clemens is? He won 2 Cy Youngs when he played for you!
Once again, TOUGH decision on the starter with the Jays. Dave Steib, Clemens, Cone, Hentgen, Clancy, Wells Halladay got my vote because he stuck it out during the lean years and tried to help turn it around... but it was a smidge over Steib.
Favourite Team AFTER the Expos were stolen from me (still cheered for them as they were in a different league and inter-league play was non-existent to rare back then):
Infielders: c - Ernie Whitt 1b - John Olerud 2b - Roberto Alomar ss - Tony Fernandez 3b - Kelly Gruber (Josh Donaldson CLOSE 2nd)
Outfielders: rf - Joe Carter cf - Devon White lf - George Bell
Pitcher - Roy Halladay Middle Reliever - Mark Eichhorn Closer - Tom Henke
DH - Edwin Encarnacion
Encarnacion over Carlos Delgado?
Absolutely! Edwin is a beast man.
I'm curious as to where Clemens is? He won 2 Cy Youngs when he played for you!
Once again, TOUGH decision on the starter with the Jays. Dave Steib, Clemens, Cone, Hentgen, Clancy, Wells Halladay got my vote because he stuck it out during the lean years and tried to help turn it around... but it was a smidge over Steib.
Favourite Team AFTER the Expos were stolen from me (still cheered for them as they were in a different league and inter-league play was non-existent to rare back then):
Infielders: c - Ernie Whitt 1b - John Olerud 2b - Roberto Alomar ss - Tony Fernandez 3b - Kelly Gruber (Josh Donaldson CLOSE 2nd)
Outfielders: rf - Joe Carter cf - Devon White lf - George Bell
Pitcher - Roy Halladay Middle Reliever - Mark Eichhorn Closer - Tom Henke
DH - Edwin Encarnacion
Encarnacion over Carlos Delgado?
Absolutely! Edwin is a beast man.
I'm curious as to where Clemens is? He won 2 Cy Youngs when he played for you!
Once again, TOUGH decision on the starter with the Jays. Dave Steib, Clemens, Cone, Hentgen, Clancy, Wells Halladay got my vote because he stuck it out during the lean years and tried to help turn it around... but it was a smidge over Steib.
Clemens would be third for me.
Stieb was a beast.
I just like to hear "why" someone chose them.
I knew that. Sports is all about debate. Halladay was awesome on BAD teams. If I had to pick one... it’s Halladay.
1B - Derek Lee 2B - Ryne Sandberg SS - Ernie Banks 3B - Ron Santo RF - Sammy Sosa CF - Hack Wilson LF - Billy Williams C - Gabby Hartnett DH - Andre Dawson SP - Fergie Jenkins RP - Pedro Strop CL - Lee Smith
EDIT: Really tough to leave Grace, Ramirez, Maddux, Sutter, & Rizzo off this list
SS - Larry Bowa (Rollins was better but Bowa was the 1st player in sports i wanted to be so I have to go with him)
3B - Mike Schmidt
LF - Shane Victorino (cheating a bit but sue me)
CF - Lenny Dykstra (1993 edition only)
RF - Jayson Werth
C - JT Realmuto
SP - Steve Carlton
RP - Tug McGraw
All time favorite Non-Phillies players
1B - Will Clark (runner up Don Mattingly)
2B - Jose Altuve (runner up Johnny Ray Pirates - not a lot of great 2nd basemen in my time)
SS - Derek Jeter (hard to hate even as a Yankees player) (runner up Ozzie Smith)
3B - Chipper Jones (runner up David Wright)
LF - Joe Charboneau (go joe charboneau) (runner up Tim Raines)
CF - Mike Trout (runner up Dale Murphy)
RF - Andre Dawson (runner up Dave Parker)
C - Jorge Posada (runner up Pudge Rodriguez)
SP - Nolan Ryan (runner up Dave Stieb)
RP - Trevor Hoffman just for the "Hells Bells" entrance (runner up Bruce Sutter)
geez, how could i have forgotten Tug McGraw (he's my setup man)
8/28/98- Camden, NJ
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
1B - Derek Lee 2B - Ryne Sandberg SS - Ernie Banks 3B - Ron Santo RF - Sammy Sosa CF - Hack Wilson LF - Billy Williams C - Gabby Hartnett DH - Andre Dawson SP - Fergie Jenkins RP - Pedro Strop CL - Lee Smith
EDIT: Really tough to leave Grace, Ramirez, Maddux, Sutter, & Rizzo off this list
And I’ll add Alou, Wood and Sutcliffe. I had a hard time choosing some.
1B - Derek Lee 2B - Ryne Sandberg SS - Ernie Banks 3B - Ron Santo RF - Sammy Sosa CF - Hack Wilson LF - Billy Williams C - Gabby Hartnett DH - Andre Dawson SP - Fergie Jenkins RP - Pedro Strop CL - Lee Smith
EDIT: Really tough to leave Grace, Ramirez, Maddux, Sutter, & Rizzo off this list
And I’ll add Alou, Wood and Sutcliffe. I had a hard time choosing some.
1B - Derek Lee 2B - Ryne Sandberg SS - Ernie Banks 3B - Ron Santo RF - Sammy Sosa CF - Hack Wilson LF - Billy Williams C - Gabby Hartnett DH - Andre Dawson SP - Fergie Jenkins RP - Pedro Strop CL - Lee Smith
EDIT: Really tough to leave Grace, Ramirez, Maddux, Sutter, & Rizzo off this list
And I’ll add Alou, Wood and Sutcliffe. I had a hard time choosing some.
By the way, Strop? C’mon man! Haha
Cubs fans need to get over their misguided hatred of Strop. He's the best reliever we've had in probably the history of the franchise. Alou is not even close to being on an all-time Cub team.
1B - Derek Lee 2B - Ryne Sandberg SS - Ernie Banks 3B - Ron Santo RF - Sammy Sosa CF - Hack Wilson LF - Billy Williams C - Gabby Hartnett DH - Andre Dawson SP - Fergie Jenkins RP - Pedro Strop CL - Lee Smith
EDIT: Really tough to leave Grace, Ramirez, Maddux, Sutter, & Rizzo off this list
And I’ll add Alou, Wood and Sutcliffe. I had a hard time choosing some.
By the way, Strop? C’mon man! Haha
Cubs fans need to get over their misguided hatred of Strop. He's the best reliever we've had in probably the history of the franchise. Alou is not even close to being on an all-time Cub team.
Well I will respectfully disagree about Strop. And Alou in his prime was one of the better pure hitters in baseball. Not necessarily an all time great cub because of his time spent in Montreal and Florida, but take his best years collectively and he’s a guy Id assemble a team with. That said, I left him off my team.
1B - Derek Lee 2B - Ryne Sandberg SS - Ernie Banks 3B - Ron Santo RF - Sammy Sosa CF - Hack Wilson LF - Billy Williams C - Gabby Hartnett DH - Andre Dawson SP - Fergie Jenkins RP - Pedro Strop CL - Lee Smith
EDIT: Really tough to leave Grace, Ramirez, Maddux, Sutter, & Rizzo off this list
And I’ll add Alou, Wood and Sutcliffe. I had a hard time choosing some.
By the way, Strop? C’mon man! Haha
Cubs fans need to get over their misguided hatred of Strop. He's the best reliever we've had in probably the history of the franchise. Alou is not even close to being on an all-time Cub team.
Well I will respectfully disagree about Strop. And Alou in his prime was one of the better pure hitters in baseball. Not necessarily an all time great cub because of his time spent in Montreal and Florida, but take his best years collectively and he’s a guy Id assemble a team with. That said, I left him off my team.
Numbers don't lie, my friend. Strop has been a boss. Yeah, he sucked this year, but his Cub career is incredible. And to think we got him and Arrieta for two nobodies. We won that deal by a loooooooooooong shot.
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Middle Reliever- Stu Miller
c - Gary Carter
1b - Andres Galarraga
2b - Delino DeShields
ss - Tom Foley
3b - Tim Wallach
Outfielders:
rf - Larry Walker (tough pick over Vladdy G.)
cf - Andre Dawson
lf - Tim Raines
Starter - Dennis Martinez
Middle Reliever - Mel Rojas
Closer - Jeff Reardon (Wetteland obviously off the list)
Where are Vlad, Pedro and Randy Johnson?
Yes, too soon. None of them ever donned an Expos uniform.
You left off Robles and Turner too...
But I wanted the list to be of the Expos as I remember them. Got robbed of a title in ‘94 anyway.
Infielders:
c - Ernie Whitt
1b - John Olerud
2b - Roberto Alomar
ss - Tony Fernandez
3b - Kelly Gruber (Josh Donaldson CLOSE 2nd)
Outfielders:
rf - Joe Carter
cf - Devon White
lf - George Bell
Pitcher - Roy Halladay
Middle Reliever - Mark Eichhorn
Closer - Tom Henke
DH - Edwin Encarnacion
EE was electric man... the parrot and all that. Just a lot of fun. Good times.
I'm curious as to where Clemens is? He won 2 Cy Youngs when he played for you!
Halladay got my vote because he stuck it out during the lean years and tried to help turn it around... but it was a smidge over Steib.
I just like to hear "why" someone chose them.
2B - Ryne Sandberg
SS - Ernie Banks
3B - Ron Santo
RF - Sammy Sosa
CF - Hack Wilson
LF - Billy Williams
C - Gabby Hartnett
DH - Andre Dawson
SP - Fergie Jenkins
RP - Pedro Strop
CL - Lee Smith
EDIT: Really tough to leave Grace, Ramirez, Maddux, Sutter, & Rizzo off this list
geez, how could i have forgotten Tug McGraw (he's my setup man)
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
Alou is not even close to being on an all-time Cub team.