Best Baseball Team for <$50M

[Vince Young]

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

[naphinfitos]

WTF? Ortiz isn't on this team........

[tbach24]

VMart is at like 675, no? He's better.

Anyways, you could do better with this money:
OF - Jim Edmonds - $10,333,333
OF - Ichiro Suzuki - $12,529,000
OF - Vladimir Guerrero - $12,500,000
than you did.

Does anyone have a link to the MLB.com or ESPN.com thing with all the things?

[kerssens]

You're missing a few players.

[Eurotrash]

I like this team... possible consideration for 2B to save you a couple ten thousand dollars:

Chase Utley

he's the next big thing.

[bugstud]

once I have full salary info I'll do a full 25 roster for under 50 mil.

[tbach24]

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You're missing a few players.

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Yeah, I was referring to a 25 man roster, but it's cool either way. This may make it easier.

[pryor15]

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once I have full salary info I'll do a full 25 roster for under 50 mil.

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much more challenging.

edit: USA Today has a database here

[Vince Young]

[ QUOTE ]
VMart is at like 675, no? He's better.

Anyways, you could do better with this money:
OF - Jim Edmonds - $10,333,333
OF - Ichiro Suzuki - $12,529,000
OF - Vladimir Guerrero - $12,500,000
than you did.

Does anyone have a link to the MLB.com or ESPN.com thing with all the things?

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http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/3530368

[tbach24]

The all sub-1 million team:
C- Victor Martinez (700,000)
C- Joe Mauer (325,000)
1B- Travis Hafner (377,400)
2B- Brian Roberts (390,000)
3B- Hank Blalock (800,000)
SS- Clint Barmes (317,000)
OF- Miguel Cabrera (370,000)
OF- Lew Ford (385,000)
OF- Carl Crawford (625,000)
OF- Jeremy Reed (316,000)
IF- Kevin Youklis (323,125)
IF- Chase Utley (345,000)
IF- Justin Morneau (345,000)
SP- Rich Harden (750,000)
SP- Jeremy Bonderman (400,000)
SP- Dontrelle Willis (378,500)
SP- John Patterson (322,500)
SP- Jake Peavy (750,000)
RP- Fransisco Rodriguez (440,000)
RP- Brad Lidge (500,000)
RP- Kiki Calero (330,000)
RP- Juan Rincon (440,000)
RP- Scott Kazmir (316,000)
RP- Bobby Madritsch (335,000)
RP- Dan Haren (323,500)

Total- 10,904,025

This is much better than most major league teams too