Yup, I’m back to not updating this regularly. Shocked, aren’t you? 
What I have been doing in my rare spare time is playing a lot of The Show 09 on the PS3. The other night I downloaded someone’s roster set that had what they called “All Time Teams” for each team. I assumed this would consist of 25 of the best of all time for each team. That’s about half right. Most teams had their best players but also had a smattering of current scrubs taking up roster spots. Plus, the ratings were all WAY too high.
So I’ve decided to take it upon myself to take this roster file and actually make it correct. What I plan on doing is going through for each team and setting a roster that I consider to be their actual All Time Team. Pretty ambitious, huh?
The hardest part for me is coming up with each team’s 25 man roster. You would think there would be somewhere on the internet where some place like TSN, ESPN, or SI has actually surveyed people and posted each team’s best. But I can’t find it. So I’m openly asking if any of you would like to help contribute. After you pick a team to do, here is what I would need…
- 25 man roster for your chosen team
- Players eligible for your team should have played more years for that team than any other. For example, Frank Robinson played 10 years for the Reds and 6 years with the Orioles. So in my roster set, Frank ends up in Cincinnati.
- At least one player from each position
- Bench players should make sense (don’t make every bench player an OF)
- Five starting pitchers
- One closer
- Bullpen can be made up of left over starters or actual relief pitchers
Seems simple enough, right? If I get some interest from here, I will plan on documenting my progress and giving credit where credit is due.
If you’re interested, email me at djw1207 (at) live.com
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check out sullys baseball blog (lined of cardboard junkie – dayf version) – he did some great lists a few months back – i am a show addict myself – i think I finally played myself out though for this year – time to move on to madden or live
I’m going to go off the top of my head on this, but:
Detroit Tigers
C: Mickey Cochrane
1B: Hank Greenberg
2B: Charlie Gehringer
SS: Alan Trammell
3B: George Kell
RF: Al Kaline
CF: Ty Cobb
LF: Sam Crawford (all time Triples King)
Not sure who qualifies for what team, but that gives you hall of famers at 8 positions, and a should (but won’t) be hall of famer at Shortstop.
Thanks for the advice. I’ve been on Sully’s site every day this week working on this and his work has helped me a ton.
For those of you wondering, the link to Sully’s site is: http://sullybaseball.blogspot.com/
He has a section devoted to each team’s All Time teams with their homegrown players and their acquired players. I’ve been able to fashion my 25 man rosters off of his two rosters.
That looks almost exactly like my Tigers list. The only thing I had different is that I had Lance Parrish in as the catcher since Cochrane played the majority of his career with the Athletics so I placed him there.
Would you agree with Norm Cash as their DH? Or should I put in someone else? Gibson? Fielder? Sam Crawford?