Baseball without free agency

[kah]

Stephen Cannella article on CNNSI. Builds a potential roster for every team consisting only of players they drafted and signed.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writ...ters/index.html

Here is the Cardinal roster:

Cardinals
1B: Albert Pujols
2B: Adam Kennedy
3B: Placido Polanco
SS: Jack Wilson
C: ???
LF: Dmitri Young
CF: Coco Crisp
RF: J.D. Drew, Brian Jordan
SP: Matt Morris, Danny Haren, Jeff Fassero
RP: Braden Looper, Jay Witasick, Cliff Politte, Rheal Cormier

He omits Yadier Molina. Otherwise, with the exception of sucky Jack Wilson, that's a pretty good team.

I had no idea Jeff Fassero was a Cardinal draft pick.

[CSD]

Wow, check out the Astros:

Astros
1B: Lance Berkman, Phil Nevin
2B: Craig Biggio
3B: Melvin Mora, Morgan Ensberg
SS: Carlos Guillen
C: John Buck
LF: Luis Gonzalez
CF: Kenny Lofton
RF: Bobby Abreu
SP: Johan Santana, Freddy Garcia, Roy Oswalt, Wade Miller, Scott Elarton
RP: Billy Wagner, Brad Lidge, Todd Jones, Kirk Saarloos

[CD]

Cubs
1B: Rafael Palmeiro, Eric Hinske, Hee-Seop Choi
2B: ???
3B: ???
SS: ???
C: Jose Molina
LF: ???
CF: Corey Patterson
RF: ???
SP: Greg Maddux, Mark Prior, Kerry Wood, Dontrelle Willis, Carlos Zambrano, Jamie Moyer, Jon Garland
RP: Kyle Farnsworth, Justin Speier, Randy Williams

Gotta love that Cubs farm system!

[kah]

Sweet merciful crap. Johan Santana not even drafted, but signed by the Astros as a minor-league free agent. He was lost by the Astros to Florida in the Rule V draft. And then traded to Minnesota for some dude named "Jared Camp".

[Fishbone]

Check out the Blue Jays too

Blue Jays
1B: Carlos Delgado, John Olerud
2B: Jeff Kent
3B: Alex Gonzalez
SS: Michael Young, Cesar Izturis
C: Adam Melhuse
LF: Shannon Stewart
CF: Vernon Wells
RF: Shawn Green, Jay Gibbons
SP: Roy Halladay, David Wells, Chris Carpenter, Gustavo Chacin, Kelvim Escobar, Dave Bush, Woody Williams
RP: Jose Mesa, Mike Timlin. Steve Karsay, David Weathers, Brandon League, Giovanni Carrara

[WinstonSmith]

I thought John Buck came from Kansas City in the Beltran trade.

**Edit: Maybe he was the guy that Houston refused to trade in that deal and thus why they had to include Oakland...

[sherwood koho]

That was pretty interesting to look at. I think the Mariners would have had probably the best lineup in baseball.

Suzuki
Vizquel
Griffey Jr
Rodriguez
Ortiz
Varitek
Cruz Jr
Vazquez
Martinez

But all of these players peaked at different times.

[lazydaze]

Originally posted by CSD@Aug 20 2005, 09:50 AM
Wow, check out the Astros:

Astros
1B: Lance Berkman, Phil Nevin
2B: Craig Biggio
3B: Melvin Mora, Morgan Ensberg
SS: Carlos Guillen
C: John Buck
LF: Luis Gonzalez
CF: Kenny Lofton
RF: Bobby Abreu
SP: Johan Santana, Freddy Garcia, Roy Oswalt, Wade Miller, Scott Elarton
RP: Billy Wagner, Brad Lidge, Todd Jones, Kirk Saarloos

Quoted post

WoW.

Awesome. And I hate the asstros

[madyaks]

Braves
1B: ???
2B: Marcus Giles, Tony Graffanino
3B: Chipper Jones
SS: Rafael Furcal
C: Javy Lopez
LF: Ryan Klesko
CF: Andruw Jones
RF: Jermaine Dye
SP: Jason Schmidt, Tom Glavine, Kevin Millwood, Odalis Perez
RP: Mile Stanton

[Xavier]

Originally posted by lazydaze+Aug 20 2005, 01:53 PM-->

QUOTE(lazydaze @ Aug 20 2005, 01:53 PM)

[bigJOE]

Originally posted by WinstonSmith@Aug 20 2005, 01:02 PM
I thought John Buck came from Kansas City in the Beltran trade.

**Edit: Maybe he was the guy that Houston refused to trade in that deal and thus why they had to include Oakland...

Quoted post

john buck is the guy that went TO KC in the beltran trade, i believe.

[cardinalgirl]

Originally posted by bigJOE+Aug 20 2005, 02:58 PM-->

QUOTE(bigJOE @ Aug 20 2005, 02:58 PM)

[TTB]

Originally posted by cardinalgirl+Aug 20 2005, 03:03 PM-->

QUOTE(cardinalgirl @ Aug 20 2005, 03:03 PM)

Originally posted by [email protected] 20 2005, 02:58 PM

[Xavier]

Originally posted by bigJOE+Aug 20 2005, 02:58 PM-->

QUOTE(bigJOE @ Aug 20 2005, 02:58 PM)

[007]

Les Expos!

Nationals
1B: Matt Stairs
2B: Jose Vidro
3B: Geoff Blum
SS: Orlando Cabrera
C: Michael Barrett
LF: Cliff Floyd, Jason Bay
CF: Brad Wilkerson, Grady Sizemore, Milton Bradley
RF: Vladimir Guerrrero, Larry Walker
SP: Randy Johnson, Javier Vazquez, Cliff Lee, Kirk Rueter
RP: Chad Cordero, Ugueth Urbina, Jorge Julio, Miguel Batista, Antonio Alfonseca