Fugu's 10th Baseball ATD (Picks Only) Thread

[Voight]

Skeeters pick SP "The Ryan Express" Nolan Ryan & OF/1B Stan "The Man" Musial

- 98% first ballot BBHOF
- 11x SO leader
- 2x ERA leader
- Most strikeouts of all time, 839 more than 2nd place
- Threw 7 No-Hitters

- 3x MVP
- 7x batting champion
- 3x World Series
- 2x RBI leader
- 22x All Star
- 4th in hits
- .331 hitter

 

[Tecumseh]

The Bearded Men of the House of David select SS Arky Vaughan

Photo courtesy of The Atlanta Constitution (Sunday, April 12, 1936)

14 year career

.318/.406/.453/.859
136 OPS+
2,103 hits
1935 NL Batting Title (also led the league in OBP, SLG, OPS, OPS+, and WAR among position players that year)

 

[Dr Pepper]

Montreal selects Warren Spahn, SP.

 

[td_ice]

The Lookouts are happy to select, 2B Eddie Collins

Incredible hitter at the 2b position.

only Rogers Hornsby has a better lifetime WAR for 2b, than Collins, Rogers 127, and Eddie 124

OPS+ 141 POWER

741 stolen bases SPEED

“Eddie Collins is the best ballplayer I have seen during my career on the diamond.” – John McGraw


Collins is one of only four players in modern baseball history with more than 500 steals and a .400 on-base percentage (.424, which ranks 11th among modern players).

 

[Fenway]

The Burping Clams select

 

[Winger for Hire]

[Looks at draft plan]
[Looks at draft board]
[Crumples up plan]

With our 4th pick in the ATD, the Rocket City Trash Pandas select CF Mickey Mantle

The Mick is the greatest switch hitter to ever grace the diamond as well as just one of the flat out best hitters ever.

Name an honor and he has it, in spades; 20 time allstar, triple crown, batting title, gold glove, 4 home run crowns, and 3 MVPs to scratch the surface. He also was able to be apart of 7 World Series winners.

Another prestigious slash line- .298/.421/.557- that leads into a 172 OPS+.

That gives my lineup the 4th, 5th, and 7th best OPS+'s in history.

 

[Say Hey Kid]

The Toledo Mud Hens proudly select Hall of Famer RF Mel Ott.

.304

.414

.533

.947

155

[TFOOT] [/TFOOT]

• 12x All-Star
• 1933 World Series

 

[sarge88]

Prospect Hill selects

SS Cal Ripken Jr.

Cal Ripken Jr.

Positions: Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Right • Throws: Right
6-4, 200lb (193cm, 90kg)

• Hall of Fame
• 2x MVP
• 19X All Star
• ROTY
• WS Champion
• 8X Silver Slugger

 

[Vegeta]

The Hanshin Tigers select

SS Alex Rodriguez

ARod is never going to win any popularity contests, but he is definitely one of the greatest hitting infielders of all time. With 696 career homer runs (41 per 162 games), and a bWar of 117.8, ARod was a freak that we will likely never see again.

 

[Vegeta]

The Tigers also select 3B Mike Schmidt.

Swing for the fences. That pretty much embodies the attitude of Mike Schmidt, and he was pretty darn good at it. With a slash line of .267/.380/.527, along with 548 Homer's and a bWar of 106.8, Schmidt is not only considered to be one of the greatest power hitters of all time, but is also almost unanimously agreed upon as the greatest third baseman to ever live.

 

[Fenway]

The Burping Clams select

This was a 20K question today on Millionaire - contestant was not a baseball fan

 

[sarge88]

Prospect Hill is excited to select:

LF Rickey Henderson

• Hall of Fame
• 10x All-Star
• 2x World Series
• Career RS leader
• Career SB Leader

 

[Say Hey Kid]

The Toledo Mud Hens are thrilled to have our lead off hitter Hall of Famer 2B Joe Morgan fall to us. He's a 5 time Gold Glover 2B who has all the major hardware including 2 MVPs (see below), and stole 689 bags!

• 10x All-Star
• 2x World Series
• 5x Gold Glove
• Silver Slugger
• AS MVP
• 2x ML PoY
• 2 x MVP

 

[Winger for Hire]

With out 5th pick in the ATD, the Rocket City Trash Pandas select SP Clayton Kershaw

Easily the best left handed pitcher of the new century. In 10 straight seasons after his rookie year, he has never had an ERA above 2.80. He also is the active leader in hits per 9 (6.7) and home runs per 9 (0.6) to go along with being the active leader in ERA (2.39), WHIP (1.005), FIP (2.64), Shutouts (15), Winning% (.689), and ERA+ (159).

2.39 ERA (27th All-Time)
159 ERA+ (Best All-Time of Starters; 2nd of all pitchers, ever)
1.005 WHIP (4th All-Time)
2,275 Strikeouts (57th All-Time)
9.767 K/9 (8th All-Time)
4.422 K/BB (6th All-Time)

2,275 Strikeouts
vs
536 Walks

Kershaw also has the 4th most Cy Young voting shares behind Clemens, Johnson, Maddux and above Carlton, Seaver, Pedro.

 

[Fenway]

The Burping Clams hare please to pick at SS

 

[td_ice]

With our 5th pick.....the Lookouts are happy to select, CF Mike Trout

I normally have a 10 year span, or close to it with this draft, but there are exceptions. Or maybe, an EXCEPTION. So a player with 8 years, 7 full seasons?


YES, when you have been arguably the best baseball player in the world in each of those 7 seasons. Needless to say Trout is a phenom. The 2nd coming of Mickey Mantle for me.

He already ranks 7th All time in CF WAR. Which is remarkable in itself.

Going with WAR 7 for CF, you have......

1. Mays
2. Cobb
3. Mantle
4. Trout
5. Speaker

OPS+ 175

slash of .307/.416/.573

 

[Dr Pepper]

Montreal completes its outfield of elder statesmen, with the addition of "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, OF.

 

[Tecumseh]

The Bearded Men of the House of David select 1B Hank Greenberg

Photo courtesy of The Carlsbad Current-Argus (Carlsbad, New Mexico - Tuesday, May 13, 1941)

13 year career (lost nearly five years of his prime due to WWII service)

.313/.412/.605/1.017
158 OPS+
1,628 hits
331 home runs
57.6 WAR
1935, 1941 AL MVP
1935, 1945 World Champion

 

[Voight]

Sugar Land picks 1B Albert Pujols + SP "Bullet" Bob Feller

- 3x NL MVP
- 10x all star
- 6x Silver Slugger
- 1x batting champion
- 2x homerun champion
- 1x RBI champion
- 600+ homeruns, within striking distance of 3000 TBI
- Tied w/ A-Rod with 14 100 RBI seasons
- 2x WS champ, NLCS MVP
- 2x Gold Glove
- One of 4 to get 3,000 hits/600 homeruns

- 6x wins leader
- 7x strikeout leader
- 1x ERA leader
- There 3 no hitters, 12 one hitters
- Triple Crown
- WS Champ
- Would have have won multiple Cy Youngs in his prime; award was introduced in his last season

 

[Tecumseh]

The Bearded Men of the House of David select C Johnny Bench

Photo courtesy of The Kingston Daily Freeman (Kingston, New York - Friday, October 22, 1976)

17 year career

.267/.342/.476/.817
126 OPS+
2,048 hits
389 home runs
75.2 WAR
14x All-Star
10x Gold Glove
1968 NL Rookie of the Year
1970, 1972 NL HR Title
1970, 1972 NL MVP
1975, 1976 World Champion
1976 World Series MVP

 

[Dr Pepper]

Montreal selects Mariano Rivera, RP.

 

[td_ice]

With our 6th pick, the Lookouts are pleased to select, SP Whitey Ford

16 seasons

ERA+ 133

1961 World Series MVP

45 shutouts

 

[Fenway]

The Burping Clams select at catcher

 

[Winger for Hire]

With our 6th pick in the ATD, the Rocket City Trash Panada select Al Borland cosplayer, The Simpson's and Tampa Bay Devil Ray's Legend, Beer Drinking Champion of the World, and 3B Wade Boggs

Wade is a baseball legend. That's all there is to say.

.328/.415/.443 with a 131 OPS+

He'll be able to set the table nicely for the power plant behind him.

 

[Say Hey Kid]

The Toledo Mud Hens proudly select Hall of Famer 3B Eddie Mathews.

.271

.376

.509

.885

143

[TFOOT] [/TFOOT]

• 12x All-Star
• 2x World Series