Red Mosquito

numbers wrote:When he started hitting he was about as good an all around shortstop as you could be.

Agreed. Loved having that dude even just for a year. My favorite story about OV was when his hitting coach from 97-99 (forget who) was asked about him he said he asked OV to bunt 45 times total in those three years and he got every bunt down. Hard to argue with 2877 hits and 11 gold gloves at a premium defensive position.

BigRedLedbetter wrote:Loved having that dude even just for a year.

I had to look this up cause it seemed like he was in Texas for longer than that. I dunno why, but I would've guessed he spent 2-3 years there.

BigRedLedbetter wrote:

numbers wrote:When he started hitting he was about as good an all around shortstop as you could be.

Agreed. Loved having that dude even just for a year. My favorite story about OV was when his hitting coach from 97-99 (forget who) was asked about him he said he asked OV to bunt 45 times total in those three years and he got every bunt down. Hard to argue with 2877 hits and 11 gold gloves at a premium defensive position.

I think their hitting coach was Charlie Manuel.

Alright let's get this thing rolling again.

Kaius is up, he'll be around when he's 20 minutes away from getting skipped.

No, he'll be around well before then but won't pick.

Lament wrote:

BigRedLedbetter wrote:Loved having that dude even just for a year.

I had to look this up cause it seemed like he was in Texas for longer than that. I dunno why, but I would've guessed he spent 2-3 years there.

Elvis Andrus was a rookie that year and only 20 (until August) so Daniels wanted a vet SS to plug in there and not lose anything and who could spot start at 2nd and 3rd. All the vets raved about his baseball knowledge and think he can manage some day.

numbers wrote:

BigRedLedbetter wrote:

numbers wrote:When he started hitting he was about as good an all around shortstop as you could be.

Agreed. Loved having that dude even just for a year. My favorite story about OV was when his hitting coach from 97-99 (forget who) was asked about him he said he asked OV to bunt 45 times total in those three years and he got every bunt down. Hard to argue with 2877 hits and 11 gold gloves at a premium defensive position.

I think their hitting coach was Charlie Manuel.

Without looking that sounds right.

BigRedLedbetter wrote:

Lament wrote:

BigRedLedbetter wrote:Loved having that dude even just for a year.

I had to look this up cause it seemed like he was in Texas for longer than that. I dunno why, but I would've guessed he spent 2-3 years there.

Elvis Andrus was a rookie that year and only 20 (until August) so Daniels wanted a vet SS to plug in there and not lose anything and who could spot start at 2nd and 3rd. All the vets raved about his baseball knowledge and think he can manage some day.

Isn't he coaching somewhere now?

Tom Glavine

Ryan Howard

Probably not 2014 Ryan Howard?

numbers wrote:

BigRedLedbetter wrote:

Lament wrote:

BigRedLedbetter wrote:Loved having that dude even just for a year.

I had to look this up cause it seemed like he was in Texas for longer than that. I dunno why, but I would've guessed he spent 2-3 years there.

Elvis Andrus was a rookie that year and only 20 (until August) so Daniels wanted a vet SS to plug in there and not lose anything and who could spot start at 2nd and 3rd. All the vets raved about his baseball knowledge and think he can manage some day.

Isn't he coaching somewhere now?

Tigers 1st base coach.

Jake Peavy

numbers wrote:Jake Peavy

Fun fact I worked with his cousins Josh and Melissa for a few years.

Is Melissa hot?

numbers wrote:Is Melissa hot?

Nope. Cool though. She swings the other way...no pun intended. Her GF is smoking hot.

So I was just fooling around whatif, and I wasn't in the dream team settings, but I took a classic team and went to edit the lineup and it looks like you can assign any position to any player, regardless of where they really played.

It makes sense that you can do this since they take into account defense and positioning, so you could play a guy out of position but it might fuck you in the field.

Lament, your thoughts?

I was wondering this myself, if I put say Albert Belle in CF would that affect my teams defense negatively?

cutuphalfdead wrote:So I was just fooling around whatif, and I wasn't in the dream team settings, but I took a classic team and went to edit the lineup and it looks like you can assign any position to any player, regardless of where they really played.

It makes sense that you can do this since they take into account defense and positioning, so you could play a guy out of position but it might fuck you in the field.

I should stick Pudge (RODRIGUEZ) in left just because.

I like it because it means you can take a guy that played multiple positions and put him in the slot you want, even if the year your taking had him playing somewhere else.