MLB All-Time Fantasy Draft
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Coach Ellis
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RP: Rich “Goose” Gossage
Career highlights and awards
Career highlights and awards
- 9× All-Star (1975–1978, 1980–1982, 1984, 1985)
- World Series champion (1978)
- AL Rolaids Relief Man Award (1978)
- 3× AL saves leader (1975, 1978, 1980)
- Monument Park honoree
Coach Ellis
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Keefe
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Keefe
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I should clarify too. I meant Old Yankee Stadium.
Fenway Park
Terry Francona
I met Terry Francona at a University of Arizona basketball game back when he came back to coach the baseball team there and he was honored at the basketball game. Super nice guy. It was literal dumb luck to run into him. Got a picture with him and my friend.
Terry Francona
I met Terry Francona at a University of Arizona basketball game back when he came back to coach the baseball team there and he was honored at the basketball game. Super nice guy. It was literal dumb luck to run into him. Got a picture with him and my friend.
Coach Ellis
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Damn, I love King Felix. Sucks dude never got any help from his team. So many 2-1 games and 1-0 games he’s lost. My favorite player in the MLB when I was younger.
Coach Ellis
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Sorry for the long post in advance -
Wrigley Field (Chicago)
When trying to decide what ballpark to “draft”, I knew from the start that I was hoping to get Wrigley Field. I don’t know enough about baseball to adequately tell you if my team is built better for one ballpark over another. Talent shines regardless of the venue. What I wanted most was an iconic ballpark that is steeped in history. Yankee Stadium and Fenway were on my shortlist, but Wrigley has one thing that no other ballpark does - a personal connection.
I grew up in Central Illinois (as a Cards fan), but my extended family were all Dodgers, Twins or Cubs fans. My grandpa and uncle were both big Cubs fans their whole lives. As a boy, the Cubs were on WGN locally. I saw them on TV often and went to several games with family members. Never really cared much when I was a kid. . .
2nd part of the story - my wife didn’t meet her dad or his family until she was an adult and we showed up to a family reunion unannounced. They’re wonderful people and welcomed us with open arms. Her grandpa was a legendary youth baseball coach in his Nevada community. He and all of her uncles epitomize die-hard Cubs fans. Her grandfather passed away not long after we met her dad’s side of the family. In his honor, three of her uncles took the trip to Chicago, went on the tour of the ballpark - and got themselves arrested after jumping over the barriers to scatter their dad’s ashes at 2nd base. They laughed their asses off when they told us the story (even though one of them got JACKED up by security.)
TL,DR. . . Wrigley Field, and glad to have it.
Wrigley Field (Chicago)
When trying to decide what ballpark to “draft”, I knew from the start that I was hoping to get Wrigley Field. I don’t know enough about baseball to adequately tell you if my team is built better for one ballpark over another. Talent shines regardless of the venue. What I wanted most was an iconic ballpark that is steeped in history. Yankee Stadium and Fenway were on my shortlist, but Wrigley has one thing that no other ballpark does - a personal connection.
I grew up in Central Illinois (as a Cards fan), but my extended family were all Dodgers, Twins or Cubs fans. My grandpa and uncle were both big Cubs fans their whole lives. As a boy, the Cubs were on WGN locally. I saw them on TV often and went to several games with family members. Never really cared much when I was a kid. . .
2nd part of the story - my wife didn’t meet her dad or his family until she was an adult and we showed up to a family reunion unannounced. They’re wonderful people and welcomed us with open arms. Her grandpa was a legendary youth baseball coach in his Nevada community. He and all of her uncles epitomize die-hard Cubs fans. Her grandfather passed away not long after we met her dad’s side of the family. In his honor, three of her uncles took the trip to Chicago, went on the tour of the ballpark - and got themselves arrested after jumping over the barriers to scatter their dad’s ashes at 2nd base. They laughed their asses off when they told us the story (even though one of them got JACKED up by security.)
TL,DR. . . Wrigley Field, and glad to have it.
Thee Idiotic Minivan K
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He signed to play with my braves this year, but then covid19 happened.
Thee Idiotic Minivan K
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