Build your own team...

[Rowand44]

My friend came up with the idea and it's pretty fun to do if you have some time. You're building your own baseball team, you have the top 25 picks so you can take whoever you want and you have a 90 million dollar payroll(based on 06 salaries). It takes a bit of time to do, to make sure the salaries match and such but I had a good time doing it. So... What would your team look like?

 

My team ended up being about 89 million, I'll post it later.

Edited October 19, 2006 by Rowand44

[whitesoxfan101]

Great idea, i'll try it tonight when I get home.

[ZoomSlowik]

Mine will definitely be forth-coming, I already have a ton of ideas...

 

Edit- I think I might do 2: one without rookie and one with them. The second one is kind of easy...

Edited October 19, 2006 by ZoomSlowik

[Flash Tizzle]

SP - Francisco Liriano - $327,000.

 

The remaining 89,673,000 will be spent cloning future Lirianos.

 

......and if that doesn't work, the rotation will resemble this:

 

SP - Francisco Liriano

SP - Johan Santana - $8,750,000

SP - Felix Hernandez - $340,000

SP - Carlos Zambrano - $6,500,000

SP - Justin Verlander - $980,000

 

Total: $16,897,000

 

I'll fill in remaining positions later.

[ZoomSlowik]

Alright, here's what I did. I put together this roster with the following rule for myself: no starting position players or starting pitchers could still be on pre-arbitration/extension deals. Therefore:

 

Position players:

C- Victor Martinez- 800k

1B- Albert Pujols- $15 mil

2B- Tadahito Iguchi- $2.4 mil

SS- Michael Young- $3 mil

3B- Joe Crede- $2.65 mil

LF- Carl Crawford- $2.5 mil

CF- Grady Sizemore- 500k

RF- Vladimir Guerrero- $12.5 mil

DH- Travis Hafner- $2.6 mil

 

bench

Brian McCann- $333k

Chone Figgins- $2.25 mil

Matt Holliday- $500k

Vernon Wells- $4.3 mil

Orlando Hudson- $2.3 mil

 

Pitchers

#1 starter- John Santana- $9 mil

#2- Carlos Zambrano- 6.5 mil

#3- Jake Peavy- $2.5 mil

#4- John Lackey- $3.76 mil

#5- Brandon Webb- $2.5 mil

closer- Joe Nathan- $3.75 mil

lefty setup- Matt Thorton- $355k

righty setup- Bobby Jenks- $340k

middle reliever- Joel Zumaya- $327k

middle reliver- Juan Rincon- $900k

long reliever- Erik Bedard- $1.4 mil

 

total= $82.965 mil

 

I could tweak it a little more, but I've done enough.

Edited October 19, 2006 by ZoomSlowik

[whitesoxfan99]

C Mauer $400,000

1B Pujols $15 mil

2B Cano $381,000

SS Reyes $401,500

3B Cabrera $472,000

LF Bay $750,000

CF Beltran $12 mil

RF Suzuki $11 mil

DH Howard $355,000

 

Bench

Michael Young $ 3 mil

Bill Hall $420,000

Victor Martinez $800,000

Grady Sizemore $750,000

Figgins $2.21 mil

 

SP1 Santana $9 mil

SP2 Liriano $327,000

SP3 Zambrano $6.5 mil

SP4 Oswalt $11 mil

SP5 Webb $2.5 mil

LR Shields $2.1 mil

MR Zumaya $327,000

MR Papelbon $335,400

RSM Nathan $3.75 mil

LSM Mike Gonzalez $347,000

CL K-Rod $3.775 mil

 

Total salary=$87,585,500

[CWSGuy406]

LF - Carl Crawford (2.6)

CF - Carlos Beltran (13.5)

C - Joe Mauer (.4)

1B - Albert Pujols (14)

DH - David Ortiz (6.5)

RF - Jermaine Dye (5)

SS - Carlos Guillen (5)

2B - Robinson Cano (.38)

3B - Ryan Zimmerman (.35)

 

Salary of starters = $47.73M

 

SP - Johan Santana (8.75)

SP - Roy Halladay (12.75)

SP - Justin Verlander (.98)

SP - Brandon Webb (2.5)

SP - Chris Carpenter (5)

 

Salary of starting pitchers = $29.98M

 

RP - J.J. Putz (.42)

RP - Matt Thorton (.36)

RP - Justin Duchscherer (.35)

RP - Joel Zumaya (.33)

RP - Jon Broxton (.35)

RP - Taylor Tankersly (.35)

 

Salary of relievers = $2.16M

 

Bench -

 

1B/RF/LF - Nick Swisher (.34)

OF - Milton Bradley (3)

C - Russell Martin (.35)

3B/1B - Nomar Garciaparra (6)

SS/2B - Jose Reyes (.4)

 

Salary of bench = $10.09M

 

Total salary = $89.96

[whitesoxfan101]

Using cbssportsline.com salaries, and AL style rules.....no million dollar players, no 2 men from the same team....

 

Defense:

C: Brian McCann (0.34 million)(ATL)

1B: Ryan Howard (0.36 million)(PHI)

2B: Dan Uggla (0.33 million)(FLA)

SS: Jose Reyes (0.41 million)(NYM)

3B: Ryan Zimmerman (0.33 million)(WAS)

LF: Matt Holliday (0.50 million)(COL)

CF: Grady Sizemore (0.66 million)(CLE)

RF: Alex Rios (0.35 million)(TOR)

DH: Robinson Cano (0.38 million)(NYY)

 

Lineup:

Reyes (S)

Sizemore (L)

Holliday ®

Howard (L)

Zimmerman ®

McCann (L)

Uggla ®

Cano (L)

Rios ®

 

Bench:

Nick Markakis (0.33 million) (OF)(BAL)(L)

Ian Kinsler (0.33 million) (IF)(TEX)®

Conor Jackson (0.33 million) (IF)(ARI)®

Edwin Encarnacion (0.33 million) (IF)(CIN)®

David DeJesus (0.50 million) (OF)(KC)(L)

 

Starting Pitchers:

1. Francisco Liriano (0.33 million)(L)(MIN)

2. Dan Haren (0.55 million)®(OAK)

3. Scott Kazmir (0.37 million)(L)(TB)

4. Matt Cain (0.33 million)®(SF)

5. Felix Hernandez (0.34 million)®(SEA)

 

Bullpen:

RP: Jonathan Broxton (0.33 million)®(LAD)

RP: Cla Meredith (0.33 million)®(SD)

RP: Adam Wainwright (0.33 million)®(STL)

RP: Mike Gonzalez (0.35 million)(L)(PIT)

SU: Joel Zumaya (0.33 million)®(DET)

CL: Jonathan Papelbon (0.35 million)®(BOS)

 

$9.42 million, not bad for 25 guys from 25 teams.

Edited October 20, 2006 by whitesoxfan101

[witesoxfan]

Since quite a few others are changing the rules, I did too. I simply took players from teams that won fewer than 80 games this year, and every team is represented.

 

C - Victor Martinez(CLE) - 800K

1B - Nick Johnson(WAS) - 3.2 mill

2B - Orlando Hudson(ARI) - 2.3 mill

3B - Ryan Zimmerman(WAS) - 327K

SS - Hanley Ramirez(FLA) - 327K

LF - Jason Bay(PIT) - 750K

CF - Grady Sizemore(CLE) - 500K

RF - Miguel Cabrera(FLA) - 472K

DH - Travis Hafner(CLE) - 2.5 mill

 

#1 - CC Sabathia(CLE) - 7 mill

#2 - Brandon Webb(ARI) - 2 mill

#3 - Carlos Zambrano(CHC) - 6.5 mill

#4 - Scott Kazmir(TB) - 371K

#5 - Felix Hernandez(SEA) - 340K

 

CL - JJ Putz(SEA) - 415K

SU - Howry(CHC) - 2.5 mill

SU - Fuentes(COL) - 2 mill

MR - Chris Ray(BAL) - 335K

MR - Jon Rauch(WAS) - 335K

Swingman - Matt Cain(SF) - 328K

 

C - John Buck(KC) - 350K

IF - Freddy Sanchez(PIT) - 342K

IF/CF - Bill Hall(MIL) - 420K

OF - Carl Crawford - 2.5 mill

OF - Andruw Jones - 13 mill

 

Payroll $49.585 mill

 

So a quarter of my payroll is spent on a power bat for my bench...wanna fight about it?