Post-Strike Baseball Tournament: WORLD CHAMPION SKITCHP!

[Lament]

I gotta say, this went better than I anticipated. I had fun, so thank you to everyone who participated. I hope this isn't a one-off.

I haven't commented in here until now because I wanted to let you guys finish, but I'm really impressed with how this went. I've been a big fan of WhatIf Sports for a long time and have used it for my own alternate histories, so this is a cool feature. I wish I knew more about baseball to effectively participate--I would have been more useful for an NFL or college football tournament.

Good job everyone!

Hey, thanks!

I said before that this was the most efficient and well run tournament in the history of RM.

You're gonna make me blush.

[@SkitchP]

My only hope in the franchise tournament is that the dead ball era core of my rotation (Ed Walsh, Ed Cicotte, & Doc White) prove to be mystifying to every other team.

This should probably be a new thread though, right?

[Lament]

Yeah, I'll start a new thread once we decide on how soon we'd like to do it.

I get the impression that most people are ready to turn around and do it pretty soon, huh?

[@SkitchP]

Yeah, I'll start a new thread once we decide on how soon we'd like to do it.

I get the impression that most people are ready to turn around and do it pretty soon, huh?

As much as I'd love to bask in my victory as long as people are willing to let me, might as well strike while the iron is hot.

[BigRedLedbetter]

Yeah, I'll start a new thread once we decide on how soon we'd like to do it.

I get the impression that most people are ready to turn around and do it pretty soon, huh?

As much as I'd love to bask in my victory as long as people are willing to let me, might as well strike while the iron is hot.

Good work, dude.

Your Tigers team looks good. LOL @ Cabrera hitting 8th. Sick!

[Lament]

As much as I'd love to bask in my victory as long as people are willing to let me, might as well strike while the iron is hot.

I've formally requested that this thread receive a Global Announcement sticky so that every time someone opens a forum, they are reminded that you are World Champion, Skitch.

[@SkitchP]

Yeah, I'll start a new thread once we decide on how soon we'd like to do it.

I get the impression that most people are ready to turn around and do it pretty soon, huh?

As much as I'd love to bask in my victory as long as people are willing to let me, might as well strike while the iron is hot.

Good work, dude.

Your Tigers team looks good. LOL @ Cabrera hitting 8th. Sick!

Well that wasnt the lineup though. That was just position by position fill in, starting with the OF b/c Ty Cobb

[@SkitchP]

As much as I'd love to bask in my victory as long as people are willing to let me, might as well strike while the iron is hot.

I've formally requested that this thread receive a Global Announcement sticky so that every time someone opens a forum, they are reminded that you are World Champion, Skitch.

You treat me so well Lament

[Lament]

You treat me so well Lament

And chud means business.

[BigRedLedbetter]

Yeah, I'll start a new thread once we decide on how soon we'd like to do it.

I get the impression that most people are ready to turn around and do it pretty soon, huh?

As much as I'd love to bask in my victory as long as people are willing to let me, might as well strike while the iron is hot.

Good work, dude.

Your Tigers team looks good. LOL @ Cabrera hitting 8th. Sick!

Well that wasnt the lineup though. That was just position by position fill in, starting with the OF b/c Ty Cobb

Makes more sense.

[@SkitchP]

Lineups.

Spoiler: show

Against LHP

CF- 1911 Ty Cobb
LF- 1923 Harry Heilman
3B- 2011 Miguel Cabrera
1B- 1937 Hank Greenburg
RF- 1961 Al Kaline
2B- 1934 Charlie Gehringer
SS- 1987 Alan Trammell
C- 1968 Bill Freehan


Against RHP

CF- 1911 Ty Cobb
2B- 1934 Charlie Gehringer
RF- 1961 Al Kalines
3B- 2011 Miguel Cabrera
1B- 1961 Norm Cash
LF- 1923 Harry Heilman
SS- 1987 Alan Trammell
C- 2011 Alex Avila

I hate that Lou Whitaker has to sit on the bench for this.

[philpritchard]

Toronto Blue Jays

Spoiler: show

Lineup
2B - 1993 Roberto Alomar (S)
LF - 2011 Jose Bautista (R)
1B - 1993 John Olerud (L)
RF - 1986 Jesse Barfield (R)
CF - 1984 Lloyd Moseby (L)
SS - 1987 Tony Fernandez (S)
3B - 1988 Kelly Gruber (R)
C - 1983 Ernie Whitt (L)

Bench
C/WSMVP - 1990 Pat Borders (R)
1B - 2000 Carlos Delgado (L)
1B/WSMVP - 1993 Paul Molitor (R)
OF - 1987 George Bell (R)
OF - 1991 Devon White (S)
SS - 2009 Marco Scutaro (R)

Rotation
SP - 2009 Roy Halladay (R)
SP - 1997 Roger Clemens (R)
SP - 1984 Dave Stieb (R)
SP - 1996 Pat Hentgen (R)
SP - 1987 Jimmy Key (L)

Bullpen
RP - 2000 David Wells (L)
RP - 1992 Juan Guzman (R)
RP - 1991 Duane Ward (R)
RP - 1989 Tom Henke (R)
RP - 2006 B.J. Ryan (L)
RP - 1986 Mark Eichhorn (R)

[philpritchard]

And vs. LHP:

2B - 1993 Roberto Alomar (S)
LF - 2011 Jose Bautista (R)
1B - 1993 John Olerud (L)
RF - 1986 Jesse Barfield (R)
SS - 1987 Tony Fernandez (S)
3B - 1988 Kelly Gruber (R)
CF - 1991 Devon White (S)
C - 1990 Pat Borders (R)

[The Argonaut]

congratulations skitch. i wonder who would have won this thing if we had voted for best team like a typical tournament.

[@SkitchP]

congratulations skitch. i wonder who would have won this thing if we had voted for best team like a typical tournament.

Difficult to say, in large part because I think we all drafted differently than we would have.

[@SkitchP]

Are you sure you want starters in your bullpen phil? It'll never pitch them.

[Jorge]

How's Chud doing

[@SkitchP]

How's Chud doing

That guy died, Jorge.

[Norah]

congratulations skitch. i wonder who would have won this thing if we had voted for best team like a typical tournament.

Difficult to say, in large part because I think we all drafted differently than we would have.

Yu Darvish was used out of the pen a whole bunch in the last tournament. What if you were to give them no choice and have nothing but SP on your staff?

[numbers]

The level of depth in the outfield for the Red Sox is crazy.