And now, a Baseball Debate Thread.

[TheMightyFavog]

I recently Purchased MLB 2k10 Baseball for my XBOX 360. This game features two teams consinsting of American Leauge and national Leauge greats. I will post the rosters of these two teams and I want you people to tell me do these people belong on this list? Are there players 2K Sports missed? Players who do not Deserve to be on this roster? I woant your opinion.

And now the Rosters.

NL Greats

Starting Lineup:

RF: Lou Brock
2B Joe Morgan
1B Willie McCovey
3B Mike Schmidt
C Johnny Bench
LF Ralph Kiner
RF Willie Stargell
SS Ozzie Smith
P Juan Marichel

Bench

C Gary Carter
LF Andre Dawson
2B Bill Mazeroski
3B Eddie Matthews
2B Ryne Sandburg
LF Billy Williams
1B Will Clark

Pitching Rotation

SP Fergie Jenkins
SP Tom Seaver
SP Nolan Ryan
SP Warren Spahn
LR Phil Niekro
LR Rick Suttcliffe
MR Gaylord Perry
SU Don Sutton
CL Bruce Sutter


AL Greats

Starting Lineup

DH Paul Molitor
CF Robin Yount
LF Ted Williams
RF Reddie Jackson
1B Harmon Killebrew
C Yogi Berra
3B Brooks Robinson
2B Bobby Doerr
SS Phil Rizzuto

Bench

RF Dave Winfield
3B George Brett
RF Al Kaline
C Carlton Fisk
SS Alan Trammell
3B Wade Boggs


Pitching Rotaton

SP Jim Palmer
SP Catfish Hunter
SP Ron Guidry
SP Vida Blue
LW Early Wynn
MR Dennis Eckersly
SU John Wetteland
SU Rich Gossage
CL Rollie Fingers

My Two Cents: Where's Hank Aaron, Greg Maddux, Gary Sheffield, Fernando Valenzuea, Lew Burdette, Joe DiMaggio, Kirby Puckett and Roger Maris?

[flvegan]

1. Massive pitching choice fail.

Greg Maddux
Walter Johnson
Lefty Grove
Roger Clemens
Sandy Koufax
Cy Young

That's just off the top of my head.

Also missing, Yastrzemski over Molitor for the DH. Remove both AL shortstops and insert both A-Rod and Jeter (God, I hated typing that). I'd make so many changes to that, it's not funny.

[rurallib]

16. pitching - don't forget Mathewson and Drysdale and Dizzy Dean

Catcher - where is Campenella?

[Richardo]

2. Lifetime batting average of .317, 240 home runs, 3,000 hits.

Much as I like Willie Stargell (who was in center field BTW), Clemente plays in MY right field.




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On edit: Looking over those rosters, it looks like a feeble attempt at an all-time list by someone who doesn't know much about baseball and watched "I Love the 80s" way too much.

Very weak.

[SoxFan]

5. I Love The 70s

Come on...Hunter and Blue but no Koufax?

[Blue_Tires]

6. Clemente is always in my RF as well

there are other serious flaws in that list, but i don't have the time now...

[TheMightyFavog]

7. And died a true humanitarian.

:cry:

[Mr. Ected]

3. OMG: Where's Mays, Musial and Mantle?

Sandy Koufax, Frank Robinson, Bob Gibson, Pete Rose?

EPIC. FAIL.

[TheMightyFavog]

9. I'll bet MLB would not let them put Pete Rose on the list.

Or they'd lose the license, which would then be picked up by EA Sports. And we don't want that to happen.

[SoxFan]

4. Where to begin?

Pedro Martinez, Randy Johnson, and Sandy Koufax are more deserving than Hunter and Sutcliffe.

Pete Rose should be on the NL roster someplace. Rod Carew gets on the AL roster before Kaline.

Cal Ripken gets the nod over Rizutto.

[Zavulon]

8. Robin Yount as the starting AL CF? Holy shit.

I'm sorry, there's so many holes in this that I can't cover it tonight. I'll try to get to it tomorrow, but no promises.

[TheMightyFavog]

10. Don't dis Yount. Remeber this?

[Zavulon]

12. The guy moved to CF after how many years at SS?

Hey, no disrespect, the guy's an HOFer, but the idea that he should be the starting CF on a team of all-time AL greats is like saying that...Christ, I don't even have an analogy that bad.

[Ikonoklast]

11. No Bob Feller?

[TheMightyFavog]

15. Shit. I forgot to put his name on the list.

Feller is on the 2K Soprts AL Greats.

[OmahaBlueDog]

13. I can only assume this is a licensing issue

There's no other logical explanation for the absence of Mays, Aaron, Mantle, DiMaggio. I might have included Ruth & Gehrig as well. Walter Johnson, Cy Young, Addie Joss, Juan Marichal, Clemente, Cal Ripken -- the list goes on.

[ChoralScholar]

14. Wot? No Canseco?!?

[Mojambo]

17. MLB 2k10? Ouch. Too bad you don't have a PS3. You could have gotten a good MLB game.

:P :P :P

[johnnie]

18. Ummm.... Dock Ellis?