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Build Your Own 1-Year Free Agent Team

Okay, this is a lighthearted FanPost. Reading DanUp's post the other day got me to thinking...The list of free agents this year isn't the most impressive, but I started playing with an idea in my head. Let's say you are a GM of a team which has no players. That's right, none, zilch, nada.  Then your owner decides to give you unlimited funds to create a team composed of only players from the 2009 free agent market. Basically, he's saying "sign all of these guys to one year deals and win the World Series in 2009 or you're fired!" You got one shot at this so, who do you sign?

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Here's the list

I ignored the club options and buyouts and just assumed all the players reach the FA market. After sifting through the potential candidates this would be my team:

1B: Mark Texieria

2B: David Eckstein

SS: Rafael Furcal

3B: Joe Crede

OF: Manny Ramirez, Mike Cameron, Bobby Abreu

C: Jason Varitek

UTIL: Mark Kotsay

SP: CC Sabathia, Ryan Dempster, Jon Lackey, Derek Lowe, Braden Looper

CL: Jason Isringhausen (just kidding...K-Rod)

As you can see I didn't simply pick the best offensive players at each position (although that rotation seems pretty well stacked). I wanted to get a combination of guys who were talented, mixed with guys who have won it all in the past. I didn't include bench players/middle relievers/backups/etc...but feel free to if you like. Again this was just one of those ideas occupying my head since the Cards aren't playing right now. Would this team win the WS? What team would you guys put  together?

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Here's what I would do:

C – Gregg Zaun, Jason Varitek
1B – Mark Teixeira, Doug Mientkiewicz
2B – Orlando Hudson, Ray Durham
SS – Rafael Furcal, Cesar Izturis
3B – Casey Blake
LF – Manny Ramirez
CF – Jim Edmonds, Mike Cameron
RF – Bobby Abreu, Vladimir Guerrero
SP – CC Sabathia, Derek Lowe, Ryan Dempster, A. J. Burnett, Jon Lackey, Ben Sheets
RP – Francisco Rodriguez, Brian Fuentes, Kerry Wood, Damaso Marte, Juan Cruz

vs. R
Furcal
Hudson
Ramirez
Teixeira
Abreu
Blake
Edmonds
Zaun

vs. L
Furcal
Hudson
Ramirez
Teixeira
Guerrero
Blake
Cameron
Zaun

Bet this team would do pretty well.

by aNdrOss on Oct 19, 2008 10:49 PM EDT reply actions  

My Team

I’m going to try to guess how much this team could cost, so the numbers in parenthesis next to the names are complete guesses at salaries.

C – Varitek (10)
1B – Teixeira (14)
2B – Hudson (9)
3B – Crede (8)
SS – Furcal (12)
LF – Ramirez (25)
CF – Edmonds (5)
RF – Guerrero (15)
SP – Sabathia (25), Dempster (18), Lowe (18), Sheets (18), Burnett (14)
SU – Fuentes (10)
CL – K-Rod (15)

Total cost would be around $216 million, but that team would dominate.

Is it fraud when Cubs ownership says "this year is our year?" Can somebody sue for that?

by thegodfather on Oct 23, 2008 2:31 PM EDT reply actions  

It would dominate...

if Varitek doesn’t hit .150 or whatever again, and Furcal, Edmonds, Sheets, and Burnett all stay healthy. :)

by stlfan on Oct 23, 2008 4:07 PM EDT reply actions  

Sorry

forgot to mention that my fantasy team exists in a world without injuries…or backup players…or middle relievers… ;)

Is it fraud when Cubs ownership says "this year is our year?" Can somebody sue for that?

by thegodfather on Oct 23, 2008 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions  

rock on...

and my comments live in a world in which I hit “reply”

by stlfan on Oct 23, 2008 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions  

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