Who would be your all-time starting 9 for your favorite baseball team?

tbergs

MN Twins, sticking only to players who played under the Twins uniform. If I were to include Senators, there would be some big changes here.

C - Joe Mauer
1B - Harmon Killebrew
2B - Rod Carew
SS - Roy Smalley
3B - Gary Gaetti
OF - Torii Hunter
OF - Kirby Puckett
OF - Tony Oliva
DH - Paul Molitor 
SP - Johan Santana
RP - Joe Nathan

Poncier

tbergs said:

cdthomas1981 said:

Poncier said:

C Carlton Fisk
1B Carl Yastrzemski
2B Dustin Pedroia
3B Wade Boggs
SS Nomar Garciaparra
LF Ted Williams
CF Fred Lynn
RF Dwight Evans
DH David Ortiz
SP Pedro Martinez
RP Dick Radatz

That leaves off some impressive players including Cy Young, Jimmie Foxx, Babe Ruth (the pitcher), Jim Rice, Roger Clemens, Manny Ramirez, Mookie Betts.

That’s definitely a hard franchise to narrow down (Red Sox).  I love putting in Pedro, he was the best pitcher I’ve seen (in his prime) in my life time.

I loved Pedro, definitely one of the greats, but I still put Maddux above him for best I've seen. Pedro had the extra pizazz because he was a strikeout artist, but didn't have the endurance. A healthy Pedro pitching 35 - 37 times a year in his prime would be hard to beat in any era though.

1997-2000, Pedro's last year in Montreal and first 3 in Boston is one the most dominating stretches any pitcher ever has had, especially considering 101% of the hitters were jacked up on performance enhancing goofballs.
3 Cy Youngs (finished 2nd in 98)
Twice with an ERA below 2 (and 2.07 in 99), twice over 300 K's (284 in 2000, he missed about 5 starts that year).
By far the most dominant I've seen a pitcher be in my lifetime. 

bbiggs

darwinstheory said:

Fun idea, thanks!

C - Willson Contreras (though it was going to be Pudge a couple different times)
1B - Mark Grace (though I do love Rizzo)
2B - Ryne Sandberg
3B - Kris Bryant
SS - Ernie Banks (never saw him play)
OF - Jayson Heyward 
OF - Andre Dawson
OF - Ben Zobrist (right guy, perfect time)
SP - Greg Maddux
MR - Jesse Chavez (only spent about 10 minutes with the team, but he was fun to watch and likeable as hell).
CL -  Mike Montgomery (only had 1 save)

The Cubs don't have a particularly rich history of OF and RP's.

My list would mirror yours with the following changes...

C Joe Girardi 
3B Ron Santo 
LF Billy Williams 
RP Lee Smith 

darwinstheory

bbiggs said:

darwinstheory said:

Fun idea, thanks!

C - Willson Contreras (though it was going to be Pudge a couple different times)
1B - Mark Grace (though I do love Rizzo)
2B - Ryne Sandberg
3B - Kris Bryant
SS - Ernie Banks (never saw him play)
OF - Jayson Heyward 
OF - Andre Dawson
OF - Ben Zobrist (right guy, perfect time)
SP - Greg Maddux
MR - Jesse Chavez (only spent about 10 minutes with the team, but he was fun to watch and likeable as hell).
CL -  Mike Montgomery (only had 1 save)

The Cubs don't have a particularly rich history of OF and RP's.

My list would mirror yours with the following changes...

C Joe Girardi 
3B Ron Santo 
LF Billy Williams 
RP Lee Smith 

Good call on Girardi. I agree with you on that. Lee Smith was the career saves leader for many years, but Mike Montgomery has the biggest and best save in Chicago Cubs history. I couldn't look past that. Though, he was predominantly a MR for them, so there is that. 

tempo_n_groove

tbergs said:

cdthomas1981 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

California Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim

1B- Albert Pujols
2B- Bobby Grich
3B- Troy Glaus
SS-Andrelton Simmons
LF-Freddy Lynn
RF-Darin Erstad
CF-Michael Trout
DH-Reginald Martinez Jackson
SP-Charles Finley
MR-Frank Tannana
RP-Troy Percival

Chuck Finley was a very underrated pitcher.

And all that while Tawny Kitaen was kicking his ass...

Because it was frowned upon back then to hit a woman too.  Low lying fruit...

Fuji Finley was a beast of a Pitcher.

tempo_n_groove

cdthomas1981 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

California Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim

1B- Albert Pujols
2B- Bobby Grich
3B- Troy Glaus
SS-Andrelton Simmons
LF-Freddy Lynn
RF-Darin Erstad
CF-Michael Trout
DH-Reginald Martinez Jackson
SP-Charles Finley
MR-Frank Tannana
RP-Troy Percival

Chuck Finley was a very underrated pitcher.

I left off Langston, Ryan and Abott for him.  He was amazing.

tbergs

tempo_n_groove said:

cdthomas1981 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

California Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim

1B- Albert Pujols
2B- Bobby Grich
3B- Troy Glaus
SS-Andrelton Simmons
LF-Freddy Lynn
RF-Darin Erstad
CF-Michael Trout
DH-Reginald Martinez Jackson
SP-Charles Finley
MR-Frank Tannana
RP-Troy Percival

Chuck Finley was a very underrated pitcher.

I left off Langston, Ryan and Abott for him.  He was amazing.

Langston was my pitching idol pre-Maddux because he was a lefty like me. Pretended to be him as a kid.

Wobbie

good to see no one’s being objective and just picking their favorite teams. mine would be all Giants.

F Me In The Brain

It is specifically written to pick your favorite team.

bbiggs

F Me In The Brain said:

It is specifically written to pick your favorite team.

Haha! True statement.

brianlux

Give me a time machine and put these guys together (all players I have seen, some many times):

Infielders:

1B- Willie McCovey

2B- Jeff Kent

SS- José Uribe

3B- Jim Davenport

Outfielders

LF- Kevin Mitchell

CF- WIllie Mays

RF- Filipe Alou

C- Dick Dietz

Pitchers:

Ace Starter- Juan Marichal
Middle Reliever- Stu Miller

Closer- Randy Moffitt

DH (if you feel inclined)

No DH nonsense!

Glorified KC

Wobbie said:

good to see no one’s being objective and just picking their favorite teams. mine would be all Giants.

Then let us know who your all-time Giants team would be!

Glorified KC

brianlux said:

Give me a time machine and put these guys together (all players I have seen, some many times):

Infielders:

1B- Willie McCovey

2B- Jeff Kent

SS- José Uribe

3B- Jim Davenport

Outfielders

LF- Kevin Mitchell

CF- WIllie Mays

RF- Filipe Alou

C- Dick Dietz

Pitchers:

Ace Starter- Juan Marichal
Middle Reliever- Stu Miller

Closer- Randy Moffitt

DH (if you feel inclined)

No DH nonsense!

No Barry Bonds?

pjhawks

Phillies:

1B - Ryan Howard

2b - Chase Utley

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)

1ThoughtKnown

Infielder:
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

Pitchers:
Starter - Dennis Martinez
Middle Reliever - Mel Rojas
Closer - Jeff Reardon (Wetteland obviously off the list)

tempo_n_groove

1ThoughtKnown said:

Infielder:
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

Pitchers:
Starter - Dennis Martinez
Middle Reliever - Mel Rojas
Closer - Jeff Reardon (Wetteland obviously off the list)

Epos Players!!!  Nice!

Where are Vlad, Pedro and Randy Johnson?

Poncier

tempo_n_groove said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

Infielder:
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

Pitchers:
Starter - Dennis Martinez
Middle Reliever - Mel Rojas
Closer - Jeff Reardon (Wetteland obviously off the list)

Epos Players!!!  Nice!

Where are Vlad, Pedro and Randy Johnson?

Or Strasburg, Rendon, Harper, Soto, Corbin... too soon?

tempo_n_groove

Poncier said:

tempo_n_groove said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

Infielder:
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

Pitchers:
Starter - Dennis Martinez
Middle Reliever - Mel Rojas
Closer - Jeff Reardon (Wetteland obviously off the list)

Epos Players!!!  Nice!

Where are Vlad, Pedro and Randy Johnson?

Or Strasburg, Rendon, Harper, Soto, Corbin... too soon?

Stop it.  Stop!!!

Yes, too soon.  None of them ever donned an Expos uniform.

You left off Robles and Turner too...

Glorified KC

I'm liking the "All-Time Team" that are not on your favorite team.  Here would be mine.  I'm sticking to players I've seen in my generation.

• Catcher: Pudge Rodriguez
  
• First Base: Todd Helton
  
• Second Base: Roberto Alomar
  
• Shortstop: Cal Ripken Jr.
• Third Base: Chipper Jones
• Left Field: Kirby Puckett
  
• Center Field: Ken Griffey Jr.
• Right Field: Vlad Guerrero Sr.
  
• DH: Frank Thomas
• Ace: Pedro Martinez
  
• Middle Relief: Andrew Miller
  
• Setup Man: Dennis Eckersley
  
• Closer: Mariano Rivera
  

1ThoughtKnown

tempo_n_groove said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

Infielder:
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

Pitchers:
Starter - Dennis Martinez
Middle Reliever - Mel Rojas
Closer - Jeff Reardon (Wetteland obviously off the list)

Epos Players!!!  Nice!

Where are Vlad, Pedro and Randy Johnson?

I mentioned Vladdy was hard to pass on but had to pick the Canadian from Maple Ridge BC! 

Randy J was better after traded and it was Pedro vs El Presidente.... tough call but you win when you pitch a perfect game 👍