If I didn’t do it, you knew somebody would. I’m sure many of you were doing the exercise in your mind. Of the available free-agents, this would make a pretty good team.
1B: Mark Teixeira LAA
2B: Orlando Hudson ARZ
SS: Rafael Furcal LAD
3B: Casey Blake LAD
C: Ivan Rodriguez NYY
OF: Manny Ramirez LAD
OF: Adam Dunn ARZ
OF: Jim Edmonds CHC
OF: Pat Burrell PHI
Starters/
A.J. Burnett TOR
C.C. Sabathia MIL
Derek Lowe LAD
Ryan Dempster CHC
Oliver Perez NYM
Bullpen/
Joe Beimel LAD
Brian Fuentes COL (set-up)
Juan Cruz ARZ
Francisco Rodriguez LAA (closer)
I would have Raul Ibanez or Ken Griffey Jr. in there instead of Jim Edmonds. Otherwise, nice job.
Can you please add me to your Mets blog roll?
You’ve been added.-JD
That would be around 225 million a year to sign all those. To think that would be the same as the Yankess payroll if they increased it by 15 mil from last year is kind of funny, cuz technically they could.
If OP is one of the 5 best FA starters, and younger than most if not all with no injury history, then why wouldn’t Minaya sign him vice some old soon to be broken down guy, or some guy who hasn’t faced all the NY media circus yet?
Hey JD, congrats on becoming the Editor at Large at Gotham sports.
Yeah but would they beat NEXT year’s free agent All Star team?
1B: Carlos Delgado
2B: Brian Roberts
SS: Miguel Tejada
3B: Chipper Jones
C: Benji Molina
LF: Matt Holiday
CF: Rick Ankiel
RF: Vlad Guerrero
DH: Aubrey Huff
SP: Justin Duchscherer
SP: Kelvim Escobar
SP: Rich Harden
SP: John Lackey
SP: Brett Myers
LR: Ron Mahay
RR: Ryan Madson
LC: Mike Gonzalez
RC: Jose Valverde