Strat-O-Matic Futures Game Roster Help

by ajw on Jul 9, 2008 2:31 PM EDT

I've been playing in a great Strat-O-Matic league for about ten years, and I'm going to host a Futures Game this year. I don't post here much, but I read the fan posts quite a bit, and I was hoping some of you might want to help me pick the rosters. Each team has seven players (before trades) that have never seen MLB time. I'm going to draw the Futures Game rosters from these players, and would like to have at least one player from each team, if possible.

I've pasted the rosters below. If you're interested, respond with your suggested AL and NL rosters, recognizing that I'll actually be playing this game, so I need to have at least two guys at every position. I'm thinking of rosters of 25 or 27 guys, if it works out.

I know many of these guys are in MLB right now, but they're still eligible for this game. Feel free to use whatever criteria you want when making your selections.

Any questions? (Remember, one AL roster and one NL roster.)

Oh, if you're curious, I'm the Metropolis Avengers, and you can see our full league website here Brassball.

Thanks a bunch for the help. I'll be sure to report back with the results after I play the game...

Here are the rosters:

American League
Malibu		Santa Barbara		Thousand Oaks		Brooklyn
Flames		Outlaws		Tigers		Bulldogs
DeWitt, Blake	3B	Andrus, Elvis	SS	Anderson, Bryan	C	Burriss, Emmanuel	SS
Gonzalez, Gio	LHP	Antonelli, Matt	2B	Dominguez, Matt	3B	Carrasco, Carlos	P
Huffman, Chad	OF	Beckham, Tim	SS	Duncan, Eric	1B	Jeffress, Jeremy	P
Hundley, Nick	C	Heyward, Jason	OF	Fukudome, Kosuke	OF	Matusz, Brian	P
Hurley, Eric	P	Niemann, Jeff	RHP	Reynolds, Greg	P	Niese, Jon	P
Latos, Matt	P	Triunfel, Carlos	SS	Samardzija, Jeff	P	Sinkbeil, Brett	P
Schmidt, Nick	P			Volstad, Chris	P


Chatham		Cook County		Louisville		Plaza
Blue Devils		Maulers		Colonels		Lions
Balester, Collin	P	Barton, Brian	OF	Alderson, Tim	P	Ahrens, Kevin	3B
Betances, Dellin	P	Frazier, Todd	SS	Davis, Chris	3B	Conger, Hank	C
Brown, Brooks		Gomez, Hector	SS	Davis, Wade	P	Crowe, Trevor	OF
Burgess, Michael	OF	Hernandez, Gorkys	OF	Drabek, Kyle	P	Hicks, Aaron	OF
Main, Michael	P	Kershaw, Clayton	P	Jackson, Austin	OF	Mills, Beau	1B
Rogers, Mark	P	Spoone, Chorye	P	Lincoln, Brad	P	Swarzak, Anthony	P
Scherzer, Max	P	Veal, Donald	P	Parker, Jarrod	P	Walden, Jordan	P
Vitters, Josh	3B
Walker, Neil	3B


Tinley		Hessville		Simi Valley		Superior
Redbirds		Everreadys		Vikings		Blues
Anderson, Brett	P	Cortes, Daniel	P	Bowden, Michael	P	Aumont, Phillippe	P
Bard, Daniel	P	Dopirak, Brian	1B	Cardenas, Adrian	SS	Longoria, Evan	3B
Campbell, Eric	3B	Everts, Clint	P	Garcia, Jaime	P	Moustakas, Mike	SS
Iribarren, Hernan	2B	Guerra, Deolis	P	Kobayashi, Masahide	P	Savery, Joe	P
Masterson, Justin	P	Herrera, Javier	OF	Lindsay, Shane	P	Stubbs, Drew	OF
Rogowski, Casey	1B	Kalish, Ryan	OF	Mulvey, Kevin	P	Tabata, Jose	OF
Tiffany, Chuck	P	McGee, Jacob	P	Teagarden, Taylor	C	Tillman, Chris	P
				Withrow, Chris	P



National League
Charm City		Metropolis		North Georgia		Ocala
Dragoons		Avengers		Yellow Jackets		Ocelots
Anderson, Lars	1B	Beltre, Engel	OF	Diamond, Thomas	P	Adenhart, Nick	P
Carter, Chris	1B	Feliz, Neftali	P	Duran, Juan		Escobar, Alcides	SS
Hellickson, Jeremy	P	Porcello, Rick	P	Harrison, Matt	P	Francisco, Juan	3B
Hernandez, Gaby	P	Sosa, Henry	P	Hodges, Wes	3B	Lofgren, Chuck	P
Hunter, Cedric	OF	Teheran, Julio	P	Nelson, Brad	1B	McCutchen, Andrew	OF
Ottavino, Adam	P	Villalona, Angel	3B	Rohrbough, Cole	P	Rowell, Bill	3B
Rasmus, Colby	OF	Weathers, Casey	R	Schafer, Jordan	OF	Saunders, Michael	OF
		Wieters, Matt	C



Bloomington		Texas		Fleetwood		Maine
Bees		ChickenHawks		Walkers		Black Flies
Ceda, Jose	P	Brignac, Reid	SS	Alvarez, Pedro	3B	Brackman, Andrew	P
Colvin, Tyler		Bruce, Jay	OF	Lillibridge, Brent	SS	Elbert, Scott	P
Nelson, Chris	SS	Crow, Aaron	P	Marrero, Chris	OF	Gonzalez, Carlos	OF
Nix, Jayson	2B	De Los Santos, Fautino	P	Martinez, Fernando	OF	Inman, Will	P
Perez, Chris	RP	Hosmer, Eric	1B	Miller, Adam	P	Price, David	P
		LaPorta, Matt	1B/OF	Smoak, Justin	1B	Sanchez, Humberto	P
		Reimold, Nolan	OF	Snider, Travis	OF	Thompson, Jacob	P


Parkland		Glen Allen		Port Richey		Springfield
Green		Mets		Everglades		Isotopes
Alonso, Yonder	1B	Brown, Jordan		Barthmaier, Jimmy	P	Horne, Alan	P
Erbe, Brandon	P	Cueto, Johnny	P	Boggs, Mitchell	P	Jaso, John	C
Fowler, Dexter	OF	Freese, David	3B	Curtis, Colon	OF	Lowrie, Jed	SS
Jennings, Desmond	OF	Kuroda, Hiroki	P	Finch, Brian	P	Martinez, Harold	3B
McDonald, James	P	Mayberry, John Jr	OF	Moreno, Abel		Melville, Tim	P
Snyder, Brad	OF	Ramirez, Alexei	2B/OF	Pillitere, PJ	C	Poreda, Aaron	P
Weeks, Jemile	2B	West, Sean	P	Ramirez, Ismael	P	Rodriguez, Henry Alberto	P

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I'm also a member of this league...

....but I won’t say which team out of embarrassment after choking on drafting a couple of high schoolers back in March (you can figure out who).

Anyway, to maybe make things a little easier, here’s a list of each league’s players sorted by position.

AMERICAN LEAGUE
P Tim Alderson
P Brett Anderson
P Phillippe Aumont
P Collin Balester
P Daniel Bard
P Dellin Betances
P Michael Bowden
P Brooks Brown
P Carlos Carrasco
P Daniel Cortes
P Wade Davis
P Kyle Drabek
P Clint Everts
P Jaime Garcia
P Gio Gonzalez
P Deolis Guerra
P Eric Hurley
P Jeremy Jeffress
P Masahide Kobayashi
P Matt Latos
P Brad Lincoln
P Shane Lindsay
P Michael Main
P Justin Masterson
P Brian Matusz
P Jake McGee
P Kevin Mulvey
P Jeff Niemann
P Jon Niese
P Jarrod Paker
P Greg Reynolds
P Mark Rogers
P Jeff Samardzija
P Joe Savery
P Max Scherzer
P Nick Schmidt
P Brett Sinkbeil
P Anthony Swarzak
P Chuck Tiffany
P Chris Tillman
P Donald Veal
P Chris Volstad
P Jordan Walden
P Chris Withrow

C Bryan Anderson
C Hank Conger
C Nick Hundley
C Taylor Teagarden

1B Chris Davis
1B Brian Dopirak
1B Eric Duncan
1B Beau Mills
1B Casey Rogowski

2B Matt Antonelli
2B Hernan Iribarren

3B Kevin Ahrens
3B Eric Campbell
3B Blake DeWitt
3B Matt Dominguez
3B Evan Longoria
3B Josh Vitters
3B Neil Walker

SS Elvis Andrus
SS Tim Beckham
SS Emmanuel Burriss
SS Adrian Cardenas
SS Todd Frazier
SS Carlos Gomez
SS Mike Moustakas
SS Carlos Triunfel

OF Brian Barton
OF Michael Burgess
OF Trevor Crowe
OF Kosuke Fukudome
OF Gorkys Hernandez
OF Javier Herrera
OF Jason Heyward
OF Aaron Hicks
OF Chad Huffman
OF Austin Jackson
OF Ryan Kalish
OF Drew Stubbs
OF Jose Tabata

NATIONAL LEAGUE
P Nick Adenhart
P Jimmy Barthmaier
P Mitchell Boggs
P Andrew Brackman
P Jose Ceda
P Aaron Crow
P Johnny Cueto
P Fautino de los Santos
P Thomas Diamond
P Scott Elbert
P Brandon Erbe
P Neftali Feliz
P Brian Finch
P Matt Harrison
P Jeremy Hellickson
P Gaby Hernandez
P Alan Horne
P Will Inman
P Hiroki Kuroda
P Chuck Lofgren
P James McDonald
P Tim Melville
P Adam Miller
P Abel Moreno
P Adam Ottavino
P Chris Perez
P Rick Porcello
P Aaron Poreda
P David Price
P Cole Rohrbough
P Ismael Ramirez
P Henry Rodriguez
P Humberto Sanchez
P Henry Sosa
P Julio Teheran
P Jacob Thompson
P Casey Weathers
P Sean West

C John Jaso
C P.J. Pilittere
C Matt Wieters

1B Yonder Alonso
1B Lars Anderson
1B Jordan Brown
1B Chris Carter
1B Eric Hosmer
1B Brad Nelson
1B Justin Smoak

2B Jayson Nix
2B Alexei Ramirez
2B Jemile Weeks

3B Pedro Alvarez
3B Juan Francisco
3B David Freese
3B Wes Hodges
3B Harold Martinez
3B Bill Rowell
3B Angel Villalona

SS Reid Brignac
SS Alcides Escobar
SS Brent Lillibridge
SS Jed Lowrie
SS Chris Nelson

OF Engel Beltran
OF Jay Bruce
OF Tyler Colvin
OF Colin Curtis
OF Juan Duran
OF Dexter Fowler
OF Carlos Gonzalez
OF Cedric Hunter
OF Desmond Jennings
OF Matt LaPorta
OF Chris Marrero
OF Fernando Martinez
OF John Mayberry, Jr.
OF Andrew McCutchen
OF Colby Rasmus
OF Nolan Reimold
OF Michael Saunders
OF Jordan Schafer
OF Travis Snider
OF Brad Snyder

by jonk1982 on Jul 9, 2008 4:04 PM EDT 0 recs

Andrus.

Don’t know enough of the stats of these players to populate complete teams, but I think Andrus should make the AL roster, despite his modest offensive contributions. A “1” shortstop is such a big deal in Strat, and everything I’ve read suggests that he’s as good as there is defensively in the minors. And, it’s not like he’s totally stinking at .295/.355/.351 in AA with 31 SB already this year.

P.S. Gotta be happy with your players on Metropolis, I’m thinking. :)

by BobbyMac on Jul 10, 2008 3:30 AM EDT 0 recs

Screw Metropolis

I would take the texas Chickenhawks over them easily. But one is more pitching heavy and one is more hitting heavy. I like having the hitters, I see less risk with them. And the pitchers they do have are either polished, or getting their TJ surgery out of the way already lol.

"My mom always taught me it's better to laugh at yourself than to laugh at others. She was so wrong. ;)" -Pedrophile

by Boxkutter on Jul 10, 2008 5:48 AM EDT up 0 recs

Honestly...

I didn’t review any of the other teams for comparisons… just the guy who wasn’t too much of a “Chickenhawk” to post here :>. And he has done well at collecting prospects, IMO.

Obviously, Texas with Bruce and LaPorta has some serious guns. I’d like them more than I do now if Fautino wasn’t hurt.

by BobbyMac on Jul 10, 2008 8:09 AM EDT up 0 recs

Fuck it....

I’m bored and can’t sleep. I’ll give it a go. The NL rosters are a lot better on paper than the AL ones. In no particular order, I put 25 men on each roster. 2 of each infield position, 4 outfielders, and 11 pitchers. My personal preferences are included here. I did not add the Japanese players since I think of them as “now” and not future, plus with their age, their future is limited.

AL:
C – Teagarder & Anderson
1B – Davis & Mills
2B – Antonelli & Iribarren
3B – Longoria & Vitters
SS – Moustakas & Triunfel
OF – Crowe, Heyward, A-Jax & Burgess
P – Scherzer, Matusz, Tillman, Alderson, Anderson, Jeffress, Volstad, Walden, Masterson, Carrasco, & Gonzalez

NL:
C – Wieters & Jaso
1B – Alonso & Smoak (tough leaving off Anderson & Hosmer, but there will be more Future Games for them)
2B – Ramirez & Weeks
3B – Alvarez & Villalona (although Villalona is a 1B now)
SS – Escobar & Lowrie
OF – Bruce, LaPorta, Rasmus, & Reimold
P – Crow, Feliz, Hellickson, McDonald, Perez, Porcello, Price, Cueto, Adenhart, de los Santos, & Sosa

If we went to 27 men per roster, I would add Andrus & Gorkys to the AL roster. Can make a case for Andrus to play over Triunfel, but I have a bad feeling regarding him, and I am a Mariner fan. So I went Triunfel. I would add Michael Saunders and Mayberry Jr to the NL roster. I just drafted Mayberry in my DMB League, I think he is horribly underrated. I see a lot of 260 batting average seasons with 30+ homers in his future.

"My mom always taught me it's better to laugh at yourself than to laugh at others. She was so wrong. ;)" -Pedrophile

by Boxkutter on Jul 10, 2008 5:45 AM EDT 0 recs

Thanks...

Thanks for your thoughts, Boxkutter. Yeah, Angel’s a 1B now. I should have switched him.

Any others want to chime in? The readers here are about the most knowledgeable when it comes to the minors, so I thought this would be perfect!

by ajw on Jul 10, 2008 1:22 PM EDT up 0 recs

curiosity

I’ve only played Strat a few times as a young teenager, so I don’t remember everything about it.

I do play Dyansty League Baseball(Formerly PTP).

My question is, does Strat make cards for the minor leaguers? Or, how can you actually play a futures game with guys who have not appeared in the majors yet?

The Dyansty League I am in does have a futures game, but we are restricted to players who played enough in MLB last year to get carded. So, this years ‘futures’ game will likely have Saltalamacchia playing(for example).

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by dbimberg on Jul 11, 2008 2:08 PM EDT 0 recs

Once I set the rosters, I’ll find cards from MLB players that seem most similar to each prospect. I’ll use the “edit” feature to change their names, then play ball. That’s part of the fun, actually. I mean, who gets to be Matt Wieters? Not too many switch-hitting catchers to choose from. Posada? Simmons? Tettleton?

What about David Price? Any thoughts on him (or other players)?

by ajw on Jul 11, 2008 5:19 PM EDT up 0 recs