Thursday, February 21, 2008

Hall(aday) of Names: Not A Long Time

(As always, a hat-tip to Mick Doherty.)

One look at the roster and you'll understand the concept of this team. Roger Clemens and Raul Mondesi don't qualify, which is super. Most of these players posted mediocre seasons, which makes sense--if they were any good, they'd probably stick around for a second year.

Special consideration is given to those players who had an impact on the Blue Jays beyond one year, either in trades (yeah, Ted Lilly was okay), useless milestones (but Jeff Frye still wasn't good enough), or amusing terminology (Mr. Michalak, the floor is yours). However, a player's non-Toronto career is generally not considered, so Jeff Kent is simply an average rookie instead of a guy with 365 homers.

Guys like Jesse Litsch aren't eligible for obvious reasons, but Victor Zambrano and Tomo Ohka are. Not that they made the team anyway.

It doesn't matter if it's a rainy city, because there's a retractable roof over the head of the...

GOOD TIMERS

Manager: Tim Johnson (of course)

LINEUP
RF Ron Fairly '77
1B David Segui '98
CF Bobby Kielty '03
LF Jose Canseco '98
DH Dave Winfield '92
2B Pat Kelly '99
C Bengie Molina '06
3B Corey Koskie '05
SS Chris Gomez '04

BENCH
C Todd Greene '00
IF Mike Stanley '98
IF Jeff Kent '92
OF Dave Martinez '00
OF Rickey Henderson '93

ROTATION
SP Tim Candiotti '91
SP Frank Castillo '00
SP Chris Michalak '01
SP Corey Lidle '03
SP Tom Filer '85

BULLPEN
RP Randy Myers '98
RP Trever Miller '03
RP Victor Cruz '78
RP Randy Moffitt '83
RP Omar Daal '97
RP Edwin Hurtado '95

Note: I found these players by manual search because it's more fun, and because I was rewarded after that Frye-Michalak-Latham-Cordova rut with the greatness of Dave Martinez.

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