Circle of Life League Chat

So many years, so little time!

I'm going with 1963

There goes my strategy. I was born that year and the team seemed like it could be good. Figured it would be gone by my pick. Back to the drawing board.

So many years, so little time!

I'm going with 1963

There goes my strategy. I was born that year and the team seemed like it could be good. Figured it would be gone by my pick. Back to the drawing board.

That's funny Dave, I chose '63 for the same reason.

I looked at a couple other years ending in 3, '53 and '83. Almost went with '53, which looked fun too. The middle of the order would feature George Brett, Keith Hernandez and Jim Rice. A year like '83 is interesting for someone picking late in round one...plenty of great players but thin on low priced guys, so you would need to be confident you could identify and lock up a good death year to fill in the missing pieces.

Busy doing holiday stuff right now. I have a little more research I want to do so hopefully I'll have my pick submitted tomorrow. Thanks -- and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

My first three choices gone...back to choosing between Bell,Moseby,Barfield OF or Dave Stieb

Kevin has asked me to let the group know that he’s traveling this weekend and will have his pick in by midday tomorrow.

Birth Year: 1949

SP's
Vida Blue
Mike Caldwell
Jerry Reuss
Steve Rogers
Rick Reuschel
Dave Goltz
Roger Moret
Ed Farmer

RP's
Jim Kern
Al Hrabowsky
Steve Foucoult
Dave Tomlin
Jim Willoughby
Gary Lavelle
Doug Bair
Mike Garman

POSITION PLAYERS
Dusty Baker
Don Baylor
Bill Buckner
Enos Cabell
Cecil Cooper
Rick Dempsey
Oscar Gamble
Phil Garner
Bobby Grich
Mike Hargrove
George Hendrick
Fred Kendall
Garry Maddox
Jerry Martin
John Mayberry
Bake McBride
John Milner
Jerry Morales
Ben Oglivie
Lenny Randle
Reggie Sanders
Mike Schmidt
Ted Simmons
Frank Taveras
Andre Thornton
John Wathan
Richie Zisk

Going with 1920, not my birth year but feels like it

SP
Vern Bickford
Walt Masterson
Larry Jansen
Bob Lemon
Early Wynn

SP/RP
Bob Keegan
Jerry Staley
Steve Gromek
Johnny Schmitz

RP
Sandy Consuega
Dixie Howell


OFFENSE
Erv Dusak
Catfish Metkovich
Dave Philly
Wally Westlake
Bob Kennedy
Vern Stephens
Connie Ryan
Dick Sisler
Stan Musial
Jim Hegan
Aaron Robinson
Andy Seminick
Dick Whitman

Birth Year: 1954

Starting pitchers
Jim Beattie
Bruce Berenyi
Ken Clay
Mark Fidrych
Rich Gale
Bob Knepper
Randy Lerch
Dennis Martinez
Scott McGregor
Chuck Rainey
John Tudor


Pure relievers (* denotes league qualifying reliever)
Don Aase
Juan Berenguer
Dennis Eckersley*
George Frazier
Preston Hanna
Willie Hernandez*
Rick Honeycutt
Gary Lucas
Paul Mirabella
Bob Shirley
Bob Stanley
Sammy Stewart

Position players
Bob Brenly
Gary Carter
Keith Moreland
Jamie Quirk
Ned Yost
Willie Aikens
Len Matuszek
Ken Phelps
Jason Thompson
Julio Cruz
Jack Perconte
Willie Randolph
Len Sakata
Ozzie Smith
Garth Iorg
Denny Walling
Bobby Brown
Steve Kemp
Ken Landreaux
Gary Roenicke
Andre Dawson
Gary Hancock
Rick Manning
Ellis Valentine
Claudell Washington

1. Doyerwear - 1935
2. cwitkowski - 1944
3. ggyuppie - 1963
4. tallguy747 - 1949
5. DrLanglo - 1920
6. BMilner - 1954
7. Pollyglace - 1957
8. MrBaseballworld
9. Jabuending
10. Davesodu
11. Jmtosi
12. drtripleb

Propping up the rest of the league : 1957 Birth Year

Hitters

Anderson, Jim
Balboni, Steve
Butler, Brett
Castillo, Marty
Dernier, Bob
Durham, Leon
Flannery, Tim
Garcia, Damaso (d.2020)
Garcia, Pedro
Gibson, Kirk
Gladden, Dan
Griffin, Alfredo
Heep, Danny
Horner, Bob
Hubbard, Glenn
Hurdle, Clint
Lake, Steve
Lansford, Carney
Pena, Tony
Ray, Johnny
Romero, Ed
Upshaw, Willie
Wallach, Tim
Whitaker, Lou

Starters

Barojas, Salome
Boddicker, Mike
Candiotti, Tom
Eddy, Steve
Higuera, Teddy
Leal, Luis
Madden, Mike
Ojeda, Bob
Palmer, David
Perez, Pascual (d.2012)
Robinson, Don
Stewart, Dave
Stieb, Dave
Trout, Steve

Pure Relievers

Bedrosian, Steve
Cruz, Victor (d.2004)
Henke, Tom
Jones, Doug
Lefferts, Craig
Orosco, Jesse*
Pulido, Alfonso
Sisk, Doug
Smith, Lee*