Birthday all-stars

[sweaver]

What kind of a team can you make from players born on your birthday? You can get a list at http://www.baseball-reference.com/ . I got the idea from Aaron Gleeman at http://baseballblog.blogspot.com/

My birthday is January 10. I have two Hall of Famers, one is manager Harry Wright. The other is Stretch, Willie McCovey. I cheated a little, putting Adam Kennedy at 3B, since I already had all-star-level Del Pratt to play 2B and no one to play third. My OF stinks.

Starters:
C Johnny Peacock
1B Willie McCovey
2B Del Pratt
SS George Strickland
3B Adam Kennedy
LF Jim Lindeman
CF Chick Stahl
RF Bob Brower

Bench: C Tom Dolan, IF Jack Dittmer, Mario Diaz

SP: Jim O'Toole, Rich Dotson, Bill Swift (1950's version), Chuck Dobson, Cliff Chambers

RP: Larry Hardy, Rick Bauer, Ted Bowsfield, George Pearce, Milt Watson

[KCBOOMER]

My group (02/06) just sucks, except that some guy named Ruth would be one of my corner outfielders.

[Skip]

Originally posted by KCBOOMER
My group (02/06) just sucks, except that some guy named Ruth would be one of my corner outfielders.

My group (06/14) just sucks period. When Newk is your (one and only?) high point then ....

[gyb13]

C George Myers, Bob Natal
1B Wes Parker, Steve Bilko
2B Alex Kampouris
SS John Kroner
3B Ezra Midkiff
LF Josh Devore
CF Larry Harlow
RF Jim Delsing
SP Mel Stottlemyre*, Dan Petry*, Pat Hentgen*, Jason Simontacchi
RP Gene Garber, Ted Wilks, Milt Shoffner, Vic Darensbourg, Rigo Beltran, Mark Kiefer

These guys stink. I do have three all-star starting pitchers though...yip-freaking-pee

[sweaver]

I think my Jan. 10 boys can take gyb's Nov. 13 team. Can anyone do better?

[clemente21]

Would you believe a day where nobody has been born with more than 9 games at 1B? If these guys scored 350 runs in a season, it'd be a miracle...


C: Mike Redmond
1B: Jose Pagan
2B: Tommy Helms
SS: Ron Oester
3B: Keith Ginter
LF: Jimmy Rosario
CF: Larry Hisle
RF: Bob Cerv

SP1: Chief Bender
SP2: Lee Richmond (591 IP in 1880)
SP3: Tom Vickery (41 CG in 1890!)
SP4: Charles Nagy

Closer: Juan Acevedo

[clemente21]

I got SO depressed by my birthday, that I had to do my father's birthday of March 12. A much better Home Run Derby team, but minimal pitching.

C: Alex Gaston
1B: Ray Barker
2B: Felix Escalona
SS: Jimmy Wynn (yes, he played 21 games at SS as a rookie)
3B: George Arias
LF: Dale Murphy
CF: Steve Finley
RF: Darryl Strawberry
DH: Raul Mondesi

Bench: Ruppert Jones, Johnny Callison

SP: Vern Law, David Williams, Bill James, Bud Tinning, Joe Engel

Closer: Horacio Pina

Manager: Larry Rothchild

[Duque]

Okay, for 22 June:

C - Ron Hodges
2B - Jake Wood
OF - Russ Snyder, Faye Throneberry, George Puccinelli
SP - Carl Hubbell, Walt Masterson
RP - Dave Tomlin, Greg Booker, Roy Thomas, Esteban Yan

I couldn't find anyone even remotely respectable for the remaining spots.

[sweaver]

Pssst, c21....push Murphy to 1B so you can get Callison in the lineup. That will make you clearly ahead.

[Golden Bear]

I've got a heck of an infield, and my outfield is OK given the infield, but the pitching is very thin.

C -- Dutch Dotterer
1b -- Hal Trosky
2b -- Damion Easley
3b -- Pie Traynor
SS -- Rabbit Maranville
LF -- Yale Murphy
CF -- George Washington Case
RF -- Cory Snyder

SP -- Ownie Carroll
SP -- Ike Delock
RP -- Roberto Hernandez
RP -- Al Schacht (the "Clown Prince of Baseball")
LHRP -- Glenn Elliott

SS/IF -- Rey Ordonez
SS/IF -- Rey Quinones
OF -- Ken Walters
OF -- Scott Loucks
C -- Mert Hackett
C -- Jeff Ransom

[WiredTiger]

Decent Offense with Jeter, kendall and Babe Herman. Hartsel and Garms weren't bad either. Weak at 1b, 3b 2b, sp and rp.

C -- Jason kendall
1b -- Gene Green
2b -- Gil Garrido
3b -- Bill Robinson
SS -- Derek Jeter
LF -- Topsy Hartsel
CF -- Debs Garms
RF -- Babe Herman

SP -- Howie Pollet
SP -- Elmer Ponder
RP -- Elmer Singleton
RP -- Mike Griffin
RP -- Mike Myers
RP -- Rodney Myers


2b/ss -- Dave Rosello

[Jim Rice]

Sorry, but the July 7th group stinks too. I do have Satchel Paige and Billy Herman, plus a guy who threw a perfect game - Len Barker - but otherwise Chuck Knoblauch is my best player. Of course, there is the notable fact that the most notable player for my favorite team who shares my last name - White - also shares my birthday. That would be Sammy White. This, of course, prompted me to name my first born son Sam. (Hey, I have an understading wife.) Obscure but true.

[Glyndwr]

I actually did this yesterday entirely independent of this thread. I will take the July 25th team to out-suck any other day, might be good in the dead ball era, but since then well I have Ed Sprague batting cleanup.

c Biff Pocoroba (.257/.339/.351)
1b Whitey Lockman (.279/.342/.391)
2b Torey Lovullo (.224/.301/.335)
ss Mick Kelleher (.213/.266/.253)
3b Ed Sprague (.247/.318/.419)
of Buddy Bradford (.226/.311/.364)
of Marv Rackley (.317/.365/.390)
of Le Grant Scott (.280/.343/.366)


sp Javier Vazquez (4.37/51 wins)
sp Doug Drabek (3.73 era/155 wins)
sp John Tener (4.30/25 wins)
sp Jose Bautista (4.62/32 wins)
sp Doc Reisling (2.45/15 wins)


rp Mickey Scott (3.72/4 saves)
rp Travis Phelps (3.97/5 saves)
rp Fred Scherman (3.66/39 saves)
rp Larry Sherry (3.67/82 saves)
cl Billy Wagner (2.69/181 saves)

[Golden Bear]

My Anniversary Team!

[satchel]

My team has some promise, but I'll need Smed's help to fill out the roster as there seem to be a whole lot of old-timers and I don't have the time to investigate all their stats right now. So here's the beginning of the roster:

My starting rotation got a big upgrade in the last couple of years - Barry Zito is my ace, followed by Mike Sirotka and Jose Rijo.

I have a promising young prospect in the 'pen in Jack Cressend.

My lineup only contains Johnny Roseboro at catcher and two outfielders, Lyle Mouton and Dusty Rhodes. But as I said I didn't read the stats of all the players I wasn't familiar with, just some.

Oh - and I get Bobby V as my manager!