Sunday, July 28, 2013

Playing Your 45's

A few months back on the APBA Baseball Facebook Group Page, the discussion came up on how many teams that have fielding grades 1 (that had over 45 fielding points).

Here is a list of teams that have a Fielding 1 (45 & above):


1931 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS (Fielding 1 / 47)
C - Mickey Cochrane (9)
1B - Jimmie Foxx (5)
2B - Max Bishop (9)
SS - Joe Boley (8)
3B - Jimmy Dykes (6)
OF - Al Simmons (3)
OF - Mule Haas (3)
OF - Bing Miller (2)
SP - Rube Walberg (2)


1953 BROOKLYN DODGERS (Fielding 1 / 45)
C - Roy Campanella (9)
1B - Gil Hodges (5)
2B - Jim Gilliam (7)
SS - Pee Wee Reese (9)
3B - Billy Cox (6)
OF - Carl Furillo (3)
OF - Duke Snider (3)
OF - Jackie Robinson (1)
RP - They have relievers with a fielding (2), which gives them 45 points -- no starting pitchers with (2) & none of the other outfielders have a fielding (2), if so Robinson could move to second to give the Dodgers a starting lineup with a 45.




1984 DETROIT TIGERS (Fielding 1 / 45)
C - Lance Parrish (9)
1B - Dave Bergman (4)
2B - Lou Whitaker (9)
SS - Alan Trammell (9)
3B - Tom Brookens (5)
OF - Larry Herndon (2)
OF - Chet Lemon (3)
OF - Kirk Gibson (2)
SP - Jack Morris (2)



1985 TORONTO BLUE JAYS (Fielding 1 / 45)
C - Ernie Whitt (8)
1B - Willie Upshaw (4)
2B - Damaso Garcia (9)
SS - Tony Fernandez (9)
3B - Garth Iorg (5)
OF - George Bell (2)
OF - Lloyd Mosebay (3)
OF - Jesse Barfield (3)
SP - Dave Stieb (2)



2001 SEATTLE MARINERS (Fielding 1 / 46)
C - Dan Wilson (9)
1B - John Olerud (5)
2B - Bret Boone (8)
SS - Carlos Guillen (9)
3B - David Bell (5)
OF - Mark McLemore (2)
OF - Mike Cameron (3)
OF - Ichiro Suzuki (3)
SP - Freddy Garcia (2)

I also like to note that besides the Mariners winning 116 games, they also had a bullpen of...
RP - Jose Panigua      C*-YW
RP - Norm Charlton      B*-XYZ
RP - Ryan Franklin      B*-YZ
RP - Jeff Nelson      A*-KYW
RP - Arthur Rhodes      A&C*-KYZ
RP - Kazuhiro Sasaki      B*-XYZ

While their entire rotation is all B starters, while Joel Pineiro (B-Y) pitched in only 75 innings, so he could either be used as a spot starter or reliever. While the lineup's OPS (a DH in Edgar Martinez) is one of the best you will find, and there is a few good bench options as well.

NOTABLE TEAMS THAT FALL SHORT OF 45:

Where is the 1976 Dodgers with that great infield? Try 42, The 1906 Cubs with Tinkers-Evers-Chance? 42 again. The 1935 Pittsburgh Crawfords fell one point short of 45, if they just had another (3) in their outfield to go with Cool Papa Bell & Jimmy Crutchfield, or a pitcher with a grading above 1 for that matter.

Well this is all I have for now, I'm sure there is more, if you do know more... feel free on replying, would love to hear from ya!

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