Best Baseball Team for <$50M

[James282]

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Except for the fact that Edmonds is a great CF and Abreu is a great corner OF.

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Yeah you are right. I also had Edmonds OPS numbers confused with somebody else's. You do agree that Ichiro is a terrible pick though I hope. I'd ditch Derek Lee and put Pujols there in a heart beat, and take a 5m cut from Ichiro to someone who is probably better anyway.
-James

[Jack of Arcades]

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Only one of those guys hit over 300 last year.

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And only one of them was needed to show your statement completely wrong.

[bugstud]

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Only one of those guys hit over 300 last year.

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And only one of them was needed to show your statement completely wrong.

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YAHTZEE

[pryor15]

focusing more on a team that could play actual games and without trying to intentionally make it an all-rookie team, here's what i've got (numbers from usa today, i don't think anyone's too far out of position.

$$ in millions, criticize away...

c) v. martinez (.3721)
c) j. estrada (.46)
1b) a. pujols (11.00)
2b) m. loretta (2.75)
3b) h. blalock (.85)
ss) b. crosby (.35)
cf) c. patterson (2.8)
rf) n. swisher (.3165)
lf) a. dunn (4.6)
of) w. mo pena (.44)
of) c. crawford (.37)
mi) c. izturis (2.15)
ut) m. cuddyer (.3475)
ci/of) b. wilkerson (3.05)
sp) j. santana (4.75)
sp) j. peavy (.75)
sp) oliver perez (.381)
sp) j. beckett (2.4)
sp) d. haren (.3235)
rp) b. arroyo (1.85)
rp) j. tavarez (2.6)
rp) r. wagner (.38)
rp) j.c. romero (1.25)
rp) h. street (.316)
rp) b. lidge (.500)
total -----&gt; 45.357M

wanted to make sure i had a defensive MI (izturis), some position flexibility, a lefty in the pen (romero), and a guy who could spot start and/or mop up (arroyo). plus, wanted a team that could actually win some games. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Only one of those guys hit over 300 last year.

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And only one of them was needed to show your statement completely wrong.

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There you go, being foolish again.

Last year is irrelevant.

I stated that I don't think any of them will hit over 300 THIS year.

[Jack of Arcades]

No, you stated:

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And probably none of the hitters will end up hitting over 300, and probably none of the pitchers will have an ERA below 3.

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Which has already been accomplished.

[DangerGoodson]

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From this post by tbach24

Make a team of 9 players, 1 at every position (you can have 3 outfielders at any position in the outfield) for under $50,000,000.

Here's mine:

1B - Derrek Lee - $7,666,667
2B - Brian Roberts - $390,000
3B - Hank Blalock - $850,000
SS - Jimmy Rollins - $3,850,000
OF - Jim Edmonds - $10,333,333
OF - Ichiro Suzuki - $12,529,000
OF - Vladimir Guerrero - $12,500,000
C - Joe Mauer - $325,000
P - Rich Harden - $750,000

Total - $49,194,000

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Or you could just take the MN Twins minus Brad Radke

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I am talking about THIS SEASON. This season is not even close to over. I could tell you that Bernie hit over 300 in 2002. Does that mean he will hit 300 this year?

[Aytumious]

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And probably none of the hitters will end up hitting over 300, and probably none of the pitchers will have an ERA below 3.

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Have you ever watched baseball?

[Jack of Arcades]

The fact that he hit .333 in 2002 makes him more, not less likely that he will hit .300 this season. It's a small factor since a) it was 3 years ago, and b) he's a 35 year old centerfielder, but it's still a part of the equation.

We're talking about players who are no older than 28 and some of them actually hit .300 or close to it as soon as last year.

Let's look at the age and career average of some of the players listed.

Victor Martinez - .279 - 26
Travis Hafner - .285 - 27
Brian Roberts - .270 - 27
Hank Blalock - .277 - 24
Miguel Cabrera - .288 - 22
Lew Ford - .299 - 28
Carl Crawford - .283 - .23

Even if all of these career averages are their actual true talent levels, simple variance dictates that some of these guys will have .300 seasons! It doesn't take much for a career .288 hitter to improve to .300, especially since 1) he hit .296 last year, and 2) he's 22 years old.