All-Missouri team

[Gee Walker]

With the St. Louis Cardinals and Browns, and with the Kansas City Royals, A's and Monarchs, Missouri has put together some awesome teams. Help me out here in getting the all-time Missouri team.

C: Ted Simmons
1B: Albert Pujols
2B: Frankie Frisch
SS: Ozzie Smith
3B: George Brett
OF: Stan Musial
OF: Cool Papa Bell
OF: Joe Medwick

P: Satchel Paige
P: Bob Gibson
P: Bullet Joe Rogan
P: Bret Saberhagen
P: Catfish Hunter
P: Hilton Smith

RP: Dan Quisenberry
RP: Bruce Sutter
RP: Todd Worrell
RP: Lindy McDaniel

Bench:

C: Walker Cooper
1B: George Sisler
2B: Frank White
SS: Marty Marion
3B: Harlond Clift
OF: Willard Brown
OF: Enos Slaughter
OF: Amos Otis

[OleMissCub]

...ahem... :-)

[Gee Walker]

Guess who never reads instructions all the way down to the bottom of the page?

[parlo]

Rogers Hornsby has to be on their somewhere

[Bothrops Atrox]

Johnny Mize' omission here is just as troubling as the Johnny Mize omission I saw on the other "All-Missouri Team" thread an hour ago. Why no love for the real "Big Cat?" He was Albert and The Big Hurt before Albert and The Big Hurt.

[Honus Wagner Rules]

Johnny Mize' omission here is just as troubling as the Johnny Mize omission I saw on the other "All-Missouri Team" thread an hour ago. Why no love for the real "Big Cat?" He was Albert and The Big Hurt before Albert and The Big Hurt.

I simply forgot about Mize. No insult towards The Big Cat intended.

[Bothrops Atrox]

I simply forgot about Mize. No insult towards The Big Cat intended.

I know-I just thought it was funy that two people left him off. I wonder how people would compare his start with the Cardinals with Albert's? I feel a thread coming on.

[Gee Walker]

Hornsby was a total brain cramp on my part... I don't like the man, but I think I could put up with someone who put in the five-year run that Hornsby did for the Cardinals in the 20's, despite the fact that he had the interpersonal skills of Albert Belle combined with a constant desire to worm himself into the manager's job.

I considered Mize, but feel that his six years with the Cardinals fall behind Pujols' seven (so far) and Sisler's seven-year stretch as a great player with the Browns. I'm going to use OPS+ for my comparisons, since I don't know where to look up season-by season win shares. Overall, I can't see Mize displacing Pujols, who has a slightly higher peak and one extra year on Mize, with more to come. Mize could displace Sisler based on consistency of his peak, but Sisler had a longer incumbency (even when I don't include his post-injury career) and a slightly higher peak. Sisler also had the reputation as the amazing defensive player that Mize didn't.

[parlo]

Hornsby was a coach on the 62 Mets.
According to player accounts, he was entirely useless.
Always cranky and condescending, even to players such as Ashburn and Hodges.

[parlo]

I know it is a short career but I think Dizzy Dean has to be on there.