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

1ThoughtKnown

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?

In my mind... the Expos won the World Series. 😎
But I wanted the list to be of the Expos as I remember them. Got robbed of a title in ‘94 anyway. 

1ThoughtKnown

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 

Glorified KC

1ThoughtKnown said:

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?

1ThoughtKnown

cdthomas1981 said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

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. 

tempo_n_groove

cdthomas1981 said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

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!

1ThoughtKnown

tempo_n_groove said:

cdthomas1981 said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

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. 

tempo_n_groove

1ThoughtKnown said:

tempo_n_groove said:

cdthomas1981 said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

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.

1ThoughtKnown

tempo_n_groove said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

tempo_n_groove said:

cdthomas1981 said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

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.

RIP Roy.  

Glorified KC

Roy Halliday was incredible 

HesCalledDyer

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

eeriepadave

pjhawks said:

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)

geez, how could i have forgotten Tug McGraw (he's my setup man)

bbiggs

HesCalledDyer said:

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 

tempo_n_groove

bbiggs said:

HesCalledDyer said:

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 

Sutcliffe was a monster for a few years!

HesCalledDyer

bbiggs said:

HesCalledDyer said:

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.

bbiggs

HesCalledDyer said:

bbiggs said:

HesCalledDyer said:

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. 

HesCalledDyer

bbiggs said:

HesCalledDyer said:

bbiggs said:

HesCalledDyer said:

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.