Favorite Baseball Player?

name your favorite modern day ball players from the AL and NL then name your favorite past time player(s)





like mine is NL- Manny Ramirez


AL- Jason Bay


Pastime- Ruth, Mantle, Sandberg, and my favorite (seeing as I'm a Cubs fan and nobody deserves to get into the HOF soon rather than him) Ron Santo



AL- Mark DeRosa


NL- Ryan Theriot





Past:





C- Johnny Bench, 1B- Lou Gehrig, 2B Rogers Hornsby, SS Ernie Banks/Honus Wagner. OF- Mickey Mantle/Ted Williams/Willie Mays





Some of my favorites by position.




NL: Hanley Ramirez and Geovany Soto


AL: Jacoby Ellsbury and Jon Lester





PAST: Duke Snider, Greg Maddux, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, and Pedro Martinez. The ones after them are Henderson and Garciaparra.





* It's Carl Yastrzemski (I memorized it because I'm such a baseball nerd)




NL-all time favorite is Pudge Rodriguez


AL-brain roberts


Pastime- Mantle, Bench, ozzie smith, and stan the man musel




NL - Rich Hardin


AL - Jason Bay


past - Jackie Robinson




AL- Ryan Sweeney (He was a rookie on the A's last year)


NL- Tim Lincecum


Pastime- Rickey Henderson




AL- Rocco Baldelli


NL - ANYONE NOT NAMED MANNY RAMIREZ





past - Al Kaline and Greg Maddux and Cal Ripken, JR.




NL- Jimmy Rollins





AL- Dustin Pedroia





Pastime: Clemente, Rose, Cobb




AL- Ichiro Suzuki


NL- Jay Bruce





All Time- Tony Gwynn, and the whole BIG RED MACHINE ( Go Reds )




All time favorite - Mickey Mantle





present day - AL Derek Jeter, NL Chase Utley




NL - Albert Pujols


AL - NONE


PT - Stan Musial




AL- Derek Jeter





Nl- Tim Lincecum





Pst time- Joe DiMaggio




AL: Roy Halladay


NL: I like Orlando Hudson :)





past time player





Lou Gehrig




al- vtek


nl- ramerez


past- carl ustremki








**i know i spelt carls ustremskis name horribly wrong




AL- Roy Halladay


NL- Albert Pujols




AL- Mark Ellis


NL- Matt Kemp


Pastime- Roberto Clemente




AL - Brian Roberts


NL - Mark Reynolds


Past - Kirby Puckett, Cal Ripken Jr., and Kent Hrbek.




modern:





NL; BIG Z


AL; CC or K-Rod





past:





NL; honus wagner


AL; the great Babe




AL- Jim Thome


NL- Manny Ramirez




AL Pat Burrell


NL Chase Utley!!!!


paST time..... tug mcgraw. mitch Williams and pete rose.

















*chase utley rocks*




AL- SandMan


NL- MANNY RAMIREZ because hes not in the AL Yankee killer.


AT- Mantle




current-russell Martin





past-Greg Maddux




NL- Chase Utley


AL- Kevin Youkillis











Past Time- Mike Schmidt

Whats your starting lineup going to look like on opening day?

For the mets I think:





Jose Reyes


Danial Murphy


David Wright


Carlos Delgado


Carlos Beltran


Ryan Church


Luis Castillo


Brian Schneider


Johan Santana





BQ (Optional) : Why do the Padres where those army colored uniforms?



1 Alfonso Soriano


2 Kosuke Fukudome


3 Derrek Lee


4 Milton Bradley


5 Aramis Ramirez


6 Geovanny Sotot


7 Mike Fontenot


8 Ryan Theriot


9 Pitcher


BQ: They wear them in honor of an Army Base in San Diego. If you ask me, that is their best uniform.




Jacoby Ellsbury (CF)


Dustin Pedroia (2B)


David Ortiz (DH)


Kevin Youkilis (1B)


Jason Bay (LF)


J.D. Drew (RF)


Mike Lowell (3B)


Jason Varitek (C)


Jed Lowrie (2B)





Bay, Drew, and Lowell will probably be changed up. They are all about equal.





Starting Rotation:


Josh Beckett


Daisuke Matsuzaka


Jon Lester


Brad Penny


Tim Waikfield




Chone Figgins


Bobby Abreu


Vladimir Guerrero


Torii Hunter


Kendry Morales


Juan Rivera


Howie Kendrick


Mike Napoli or Jeff Mathis (we have two catchers so.. i dunno)


Maicer Izturis or Erick Aybar (we also have two shortstops... three shortstops to be exact)





too many people... ya want any??





BQ: The Padres are one of the biggest supporters of the Armed Forces in all of baseball! They constantly give tickets out to the men and women who serve our country free of charge.. you always see em around the stadium. So the jerseys are for them as well. Its a beautiful thing!




Soriano


Theriot


Lee


Ramirez


Soto


Fukudome


Bradley


Miles


BIG Z!!!!





BQ: They wear them in honor of the army base in San Diego, I actually like there uniforms this time around





(9 more days!)




Ian Kinsler


Michael Young


Josh Hamilton


Nelson Cruz


Hank Blalock


David Murphy/Marlon Byrd


Chris Davis


Jarrod Saltalamacchia


Elvis Andrus





BQ: That Guy already covered it. :)




Rollins


Victorino


Utley


Howard


Werth


Ibanez


Feliz


Ruiz


Hamels





Against Derek Lowe





BQ: What That Guy said. It's kinda cool for them to support their Army base.




Giants





Randy Winn


Edgar Renteria


Pablo Sandoval


Bengie Molina


Fred Lewis


Aaron Rowand


Travis Ishikawa


Kevin Frandsen


Tim Lincecum

Bret gardener or melky cabrera?

which is the better baseball player


why?


i will choose best answer 10 points



Gardner, he has speed, and good outfield range. He also had a OBP over .400 last season down in AAA so he can be patient, he has all the potential, so he needs to be given a chance, and the Yankees have a lineup that can enable a guy like Brett Gardner to grow as a player in the Major Leagues.




If I do remember correctly Cabrera was second in outfield assists a couple of years ago. His arm is amazing. We all know his capability, he has more experience, and has some great highlights. Gardners is also homebrewn and has great potential. Speed is a plus in centerfield. So flip a coin.




For the Yankees Center Position i take Bret Gardner because he has SPEED , He has great Defense and i have seen have good at bats this spring training i think if he can better Patience at the Plate then the guy will be good





he can be a Lead off hitter or hit 9th




I will take Bret Gardner he has so much speed and can take an extra base. He is also good in the outfield. Melky will be a good back up player.




I think Melky Cbrera becuase he has MLB experince already. He has good speed. He has good defence to




They are both horrible. I'm sure Yanks will replace them with an all star player who makes 15 million a year.




brett gots the speed, but melky got that and experience. brett is quick and contact hitter. im gonin with bretty boy




brett gardner

If you could take one player, from any era...?

If you could take one player, from any era of the game, at their prime. Who would you chose?





I'm either taking Honus Wagner or Babe Ruth, both guys would be tremendous to build a team around. The Babe with his power and his early pitching. And Honus being one of the first five tool athletes.





I guess for the sake of the question I'm going to take Babe Ruth, even though Honus was outstanding defensively.



Greg Maddux.





The arguement for the modern era is simple math. There are more high schools, colleges, and minor league teams, filters in a way. For the individual it is MUCH harder to get into the big leagues. The cleveland spiders signed cy young because they heard about him throwing walnuts at a barn door. Also there is a reason that pitchers dont use the exaggerated deliveries anymore as it harbors potential delivery mistakes that wont be missed by modern hitters with film to study.





You have got to go modern era with this. I can see an arguement for other players, but Maddux absolutely tormented the 90`s. Nobody was a more complete player at their position. He pitched brilliantly, gained more gold gloves than any player and he wasn`t a terrible hitter either.





If you look at the "mvp" side of it, he gave the Braves the legacy of the 90`s. He helped push a franchise into an unknown epoch of success.





As for hitters, Bonds (steroids or not) was the most feared hitter in the history of the game. <-----------( period)




Rogers Hornsby, Joe Jackson, Ty Cobb, Bob Gibson, Bob Feller, Walter Johnson, Albert Pujols, Willie Mays, Pete Rose oh but I have to pick only one......


Rube Waddell!!!





Billy boy: You go tell Walter Johnson he could only throw 70 MPH and he would hurl you through a brick wall. Not only that but pitchers in previous eras had a variety of pitches and movement on their fast balls, which few have today.




wow that's a good question





Maybe Babe Ruth because the guy could hit and Pitch





or Joe DiMaggio my Fav Yankee or





I Always wanted to see Mickey Mantle one of the Greatest Switch hitters ever to play the game of Baseball




hear me out, back when ruth played they pitched about 70 miles an hour, no pitcher worked like they did today. anyway i would go with mickey mantle for his hitting. in babe played today he would look like julio franco




Willie Mays, Sandy Kofax, Ted Williams




I would have to go with old "Shoeless" Joe Jackson. He was one of the very best in his day.




reggie jackson.




Willie Mays

What do they do with yankee stadium?

and the mets old field what will happen to both of there old fields? do they just sit there and never get used again or do they get demolished if they just sit there then thats stupid 2 build a new stadium



Both stadiums will be demolished, Shea and Yankee Stadium will be imploded almost the same time.




They will be demolished if they haven't been already.

Which team is better Nationals, Padres, or Pirates?

Which team is better at starter,bullpen,batting,defense and has many prospect.



I'd put em in that order: nats padres pirates. The Nats have a lot of bats, and they also have alot of guys with high injury risk. They need to get better pitching...especially a starter that goes later into games so the bullpen isn't over exposed... the Nats are a team that has a head case at every position on the 40 man roster... go nats.





the padres have some pitching, but they need bats and defense and a SS... that's a team that should be drafting the fastest guys b/c of the park they have, they could dominate if they played like Japan did in the WBC at Safeco.





the pirates... isn't 20 years of bad drafting enough? They aren't even trying anymore... they have that McClutchen kid, he hasn't been that great when I've seen him (3 times last 2 years fr AA and AAA and once in the AAA All Star game, he was great in that game)




The Nationals, they have some young guys and have some potential to make a run in the NL East. The Padres may not be terrible because of how bad the NL West is.




Nationals




Padres, hey they have Jake Peavy and Adrian Gonzalez




Nationals, just signed a pitcher who is just as good as say josh beckett now and he is only 19 or 20.




Padres




Does anybody really care about who is the best of the worst?




I'm going with the Padres.




I'd say Padres

Question about losing streaks?

The Texas Rangers have an 8 game losing streak to the Red Sox in Boston. They have wins over the Sox in Arlington, but in Boston they can not seem to win here lately. SO my question is, what is the longest losing streak that one team has over another visiting team? It has got to be more than 8 games. I am not talking about losing streaks of one team to another, I have been able to look that up. I am only talking about losing streaks to another team as visitors.





Thanks to any answers.


(Well, thanks to any correct answers)



Since 1954 -- not all of history, but the complete expansion era -- the longest visitor's losing streak is 19, accomplished twice.





Blue Jays at Orioles, 15-Sept-1978 through 02-May-1981.


Indians at Yankees, 10-June-1960 through 21-April-1962.





Details:


Jays: 1978, won at Baltimore on 6/6, lost 9/15-17 (3); 1979, lost 6/29-7/1 ( 4, 7), 9/3-6 ( 3, 10); 1980, lost 6/24-26 ( 3, 13), 9/19-21 ( 3, 16); 1981, lost 4/30-5/2 ( 3, 19), won on 5/3.





Indians: 1960, won on 5/12, lost 6/10-11 (2), 7/26-28 ( 3, 5), 8/26-27 ( 4, 9 -- ah, for the heady days of back-to-back doubleheaders); 1961, lost 4/27-29 ( 2, 11), 7/5-6 ( 2, 13), 9/7-10 ( 5, 18); 1962, lost 4/21 ( 1, 19), swept doubleheader 4/22. (The Tribe then lost four more in NYC before sweeping another doubleheader in August.)








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The Chipmaker always has a great answer.




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