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!