LMAOHe would absolutely be a steal this late. However he was drafted in round 7. You’d literally have to steal him
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I feel like an absolute idiot. Give me Fernando Valenzuela lol. Back to you @jrpross
Aright, I caught juuust a little flack for taking David Ortiz as my first baseman, so I’m gonna take a 10x all-star and 4-time gold glove winner at first, who also won an MVP in 1974 and received MVP votes from 75-81 and 84.
Steve Garvey
I figure I’ll start him against lineups with a lot of lefties when I might need his range at first. Then have Papi pinch hit and maybe work a double switch later in those games. I’d lose some power but he’s still a 300ish hitter.
And now I need a guy to back up my outfield. I’m gonna take a guy who could do it all. He could hit 30-40 homers, steal 40 bases, and he won 3 gold gloves in right field He wasn’t elite at anything but he was very good at everything. His kid wasn’t bad either.
I’ll take Bobby Bonds
@drcats2013 who else you want?
Steve Garvey
I figure I’ll start him against lineups with a lot of lefties when I might need his range at first. Then have Papi pinch hit and maybe work a double switch later in those games. I’d lose some power but he’s still a 300ish hitter.
And now I need a guy to back up my outfield. I’m gonna take a guy who could do it all. He could hit 30-40 homers, steal 40 bases, and he won 3 gold gloves in right field He wasn’t elite at anything but he was very good at everything. His kid wasn’t bad either.
I’ll take Bobby Bonds
@drcats2013 who else you want?
I’m going to take an 11 time gold glove winning, MVP 1st baseman to back up the big hurt, and come in as a defensive replacement late in games I am winning. Give me Keith Hernandez.
@hotelblue you are up, bro
@hotelblue you are up, bro
i need a utility player off the bench. this guy can play 3 positions in the infield, has gold gloves and batting titles. most of all he’s a guy who if you throw in there with 2 outs in the 8th to try and start something, is probably not striking out. he’s already proving to be the next clutch player and leader of the yankees, who could be on the brink of another dynasty.
give me dj lemaheui
@quest4#9
give me dj lemaheui
@quest4#9
His guest starring role on Seinfeld deserved a gold glove, as well.
i was going to take him but took raines instead. i remember when the phillies took him late in his career and i saw him hit a grand slam to win an extra inning game. good times.
I always think of his triple in the 13th inning to break a scoreless tie in the 87 AS game. That season ppl were wondering if the balls were juiced bc so many players were putting up ridiculous power numbers & a lot of them had never done much offensively before then. It’s just strange that of all seasons it was the offensive explosion year of 87 that produced 13 innings of scoreless all-star baseball.
Give me a Cincinnati Red HOF catcher who was said to have a rocket arm- led national league in putouts, double plays and caught stealing one season a piece. He hit for over .300 in 10 different seasons- NL MVP - 8x AS and World Champion-- and perhaps he could hold seven baseballs in one hand.
Ernie Lombardi
@UKNorse replacement pick.
Ernie Lombardi
@UKNorse replacement pick.
****I’d like to propose a trade****
@GoBigBlue712 id like to send you Fernando Valenzuela and the rights to my final pick for Madison Bumgarner. Please?
@GoBigBlue712 id like to send you Fernando Valenzuela and the rights to my final pick for Madison Bumgarner. Please?
No thanks. Buy me one of those expensive riding mowers at Home Depot and a Shake Shack burger and we might have something!
I’ll do the mower but not the burger. Not hardening any arteries on my watch. It’s a no from me.
If for whatever reason I don’t make my next pick real fast (within 10 min of start of my pick) don’t wait on me @hotelblue @jrpross @drcats2013 . I’m not concerned about you stealing a backup from me and don’t want to hold you up if you’re online.
Mines wrong. Somehow I have Arky Vaughn when I'm supposed to have Honus Wagner. Can you fix that please.
A solid backup on the corners and really a steal at this point in the draft. I take Ron Santo.
What was the online tool/app/game that some were talking about using for this thing? It’s buried in 33 pages and there’s no way I’m going to find it.
I wouldn't be too quick to undervalue Fernando Valenzuela. For those of us old enough to remember, it might be agreeable that no one professional athlete has ever captured the attention of a population for an entire performance season any greater, or as much. Dubbed, the "summer of Fernando". Not a strike shortened, but a "strike interrupted" season. After, he was still incredible. Before, he was positively beyond all comprehension. Master of the screwball, opposite rotation, looking to the heavens prior to each delivery and seemingly granted an answer each time. ROY, Cy Young, World Series Champion all in 1981.
Sports segment of media searching for his impoverished Mexican village, finding his family living in squalor huts, showing them multiple publications (newspapers, magazines) revealing their son, brother, cousin, etc. had become an American superstar without their knowing . . . a lumpy Mexican kid who couldn't speak English but by then had faced every batter in the National League with something like a 1.0 era.
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Absolutely. You’re 100% correct. He was my dads favorite player growing up. I was mainly in jest due to my lengthy write up for Bumgarner after not realizing he was already taken lol.
lmfao....It's 3:34 and I'm here 2 min before the clock baby! Sorry boys, had band meet up to go to. I tried tossing two picks out there on phone on way out the door to keep things moving. Let me see who I can come up with.
JFC, you guys are like sharks. I had several players in mind when I was on earlier, all were taken upon search. I tossed those two out because I didn't have time. Still running into same issue right now. Let me see what the Google machine can come up with. Gotta be a sleeper no ones picked.....
Oh hell....I'm overthinking this. I drafted Vada Pinson already......I didn't realize George Foster was still out there too. Good grief....talk about a no brainer for outfield.
Alright sorry for the hold up, lets move along.
Alright sorry for the hold up, lets move along.
With my last bench spot I’m gonna go with a current power hitting 3B, SS who can be a late game defensive replacement & start against LHP. He has hit at least 32 HR in each of the last 5 seasons & has been an all-star in 4 of his first 6 full seasons. He’s one of the better defensive players of his generation & has a chance to be an all-timer with his masterful glove work, which has earned him 2 gold gloves so far. His BB/K ratio isn’t where I’d like it to be but his lifetime BA is .279 & he averages 180 hits, 35 2B, 31 HR, 90 RBI & 90 runs scored/162 game season. I’ll take Manny Machado.
@LukaszObrzut OTC
@LukaszObrzut OTC