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I know this has been done before--heck, I did a version a few years back where we voted for every position--but it's always a blast and relatively quick to do, and then you can have fun talking on and on about it...
An All-Time MLB Team. For a bit more fun this time, let's try for a full Franchise:
1. A 25-Man Roster (start date for players 1903) including:
--AT LEAST 2 players at every position C/1B/2B/SS/3B
--5 OFs (Any mixture of CF/LF/RF is fine, so long as there is at least one of each on the team)
--One of these 15 position players can be in the lineup as a DH
--7 Starting Pitchers (I'd do 5, but that seems pretty impossible to narrow down...consider it a 5-Man Rotation and then 2 really, really "long-relief" men)
--3 Relievers, AT LEAST one of them being a closer
2. 1 Manager and 2 Assistant managers
3. 1. General Manager
4. 1 Owner (if you want to do an Ownership Family, that's fine)
5. 3 Broadcasters, 2 for TV, 1 for Radio
6. Further, it's my own stigma, maybe, but any CONFIRMED or ADMITTED steroid users are out; if it's unconfirmed, they can have as much suspicion as...well, you can think of those players I mean...but unless they've been nailed in a test (I'll consider a leaked test a la being nailed here) or have admitted to using, they're fair game.
7. Along those same "cheater" lines, to be fair, I'll say no players banned by MLB, so that unfortunately means Shoeless Joe, Eddie Cicotte, and Pete Rose, of course (though if you want to add them "informally" to your "farm teams" at the end of your list with an all-too-appropriate asterisk, go right ahead, it'd be interesting who will consider them and who won't.)
8. As a final note, please say what team each of your players came from, as it were.
Let's have at it!
An All-Time MLB Team. For a bit more fun this time, let's try for a full Franchise:
1. A 25-Man Roster (start date for players 1903) including:
--AT LEAST 2 players at every position C/1B/2B/SS/3B
--5 OFs (Any mixture of CF/LF/RF is fine, so long as there is at least one of each on the team)
--One of these 15 position players can be in the lineup as a DH
--7 Starting Pitchers (I'd do 5, but that seems pretty impossible to narrow down...consider it a 5-Man Rotation and then 2 really, really "long-relief" men)
--3 Relievers, AT LEAST one of them being a closer
2. 1 Manager and 2 Assistant managers
3. 1. General Manager
4. 1 Owner (if you want to do an Ownership Family, that's fine)
5. 3 Broadcasters, 2 for TV, 1 for Radio
6. Further, it's my own stigma, maybe, but any CONFIRMED or ADMITTED steroid users are out; if it's unconfirmed, they can have as much suspicion as...well, you can think of those players I mean...but unless they've been nailed in a test (I'll consider a leaked test a la being nailed here) or have admitted to using, they're fair game.
7. Along those same "cheater" lines, to be fair, I'll say no players banned by MLB, so that unfortunately means Shoeless Joe, Eddie Cicotte, and Pete Rose, of course (though if you want to add them "informally" to your "farm teams" at the end of your list with an all-too-appropriate asterisk, go right ahead, it'd be interesting who will consider them and who won't.)
8. As a final note, please say what team each of your players came from, as it were.
Let's have at it!
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