Beauty selection. I actually agonized over whether to select The Grey Eagle before pulling the trigger on the Musial selection.
Notoriously underrated player in his own right, arguably Cleveland's greatest positional player, and Boston's second-greatest outfielder after Teddy Ballgame. The all-time leader in doubles with 792 and just on the cusp of being top five in triples as well.
That pick was made for me basically. I was targeting Hornsby, Wagner, Musial or Speaker and only Speaker was left.
If Young went I had another player in mind to replace him too, I hope he lasts to my next pick.
With their 2nd round pick, the Milwaukee Braves select Grover Cleveland Alexander.
373 career wins (3rd all-time)
2.56 career earned run average
1.121 career WHIP
Won 20 games or more 9 times, won 30 games or more 3 times.
Pitched 90 shutouts (2nd all time)
Won NL Pitcher's Triple Crown in 1915, 1916, and 1920
With the twenty fifth overall pick in the 2013 HF Boards All-Time Draft the Montreal Expos are pleased to select, from the University of Southern California, a native of Fresno, California, George Thomas Seaver.
Tom Terrific played 20 seasons in the major leagues with the following career highlights:
*105.3 career Wins Above Replacement (21st all-time)
*311 career wins (18th all-time)
*Career .603 winning percentage
*3,640 career strikeouts (6th all-time)
*231 career complete games
*61 career shutouts (7th all-time)
*1967 NL Rookie of the Year Award winner
*1969 World Series champion (New York Mets)
*Five-time 20-game winner (1969, 1971-72, 1975, 1977)
*Led league in wins three times in three different decades (1969, 1975, 1981)
*Twelve-time All-Star Game selection
*Three-time NL Cy Young Award winner (1969, 1973, 1975)
*2.86 career ERA (127 career ERA+)
*Three-time NL ERA champion (1970-71, 1973)
*Three-time NL leader in WHIP (1971, 1973, 1977)
*Five-time NL strikeouts champion (1970-71, 1973, 1975-76)
*Six-time NL leader in strikeouts per 9 innings pitched - five times consecutively (1970-74, 1976) *The highest Hall of Fame voting percentage in league history for any enshrined player - 98.8% in 1992
Time to add a defensive wiz with huge power. The best third baseman of all-time:
Mike Schmidt
Nice pick. I'm a big Schmidt guy as I have him ranked 15th overall. People forget how athletic he was, he was one stolen base away from being 30/30 and arguably the greatest defender at his position ever (and he could hit a little bit too)
Batting average .279
Hits 3,055
Home runs 297
Stolen bases 1,406
Runs scored 2,295
10× All-Star (1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991)
2× World Series champion (1989, 1993)
3× Silver Slugger Award (1981, 1985, 1990)
Gold Glove Award (1981)
AL MVP (1990)
ALCS MVP (1989)
NL Comeback Player of the Year (1999)
12× AL stolen base champion (1980–1986, 1988–1991, 1998)
Oakland Athletics #24 retired
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At the same time you can't argue with the positional value. 3rd isn't exactly deep, having Schmidt will be huge.
Yeah Schmidt was my guy, and then I got excited because I thought Hank Aaron was not picked after 20 some rounds. Schmidt is probably in the top 20 players of all time.
Yeah Schmidt was my guy, and then I got excited because I thought Hank Aaron was not picked after 20 some rounds. Schmidt is probably in the top 20 players of all time.
to be fair, you wouldn't expect Aaron to go 2nd overall, I've certainly never seen him go that high. Easy to miss when somebody goes higher than expected.
The Pittsburgh Crawfords are pleased to select, SP - Satchel Paige. Paige is rated by baseball historian/statisician supreme Bill James as the 2nd greatest pitcher ever after Walter Johnson. I would not go quite that far though I think he is certainly a top 10 pitcher all-time (I have him 5th).
As James points out:
"What you have in Satchel Paige is a great fastball, great control, a tremendous change, a great understanding of how to pitch, intelligence, determination, absolute composure and a 40 year career. Satchel deserves to rank with Cy Young, Lefty Grove and Walter Johnson as the guys that you talk about when you're trying to determine who was the greatest that ever lived." When it comes to Negro League players, I am not a huge fan of the superlative quotes by opposing Negro League players that make them out to be superhuman in nature. I am a fan however of major league equivalents.
In terms of his major league equivalents according to baseballthinkfactory.org (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_Think_Factory), Paige being a pitcher is a bit more difficult to extrapolate with but according to the same MLE's used for Josh Gibson, Paige rates out to be a 302 game winner with a career ERA+ of 126, right in the territory of Tom Seaver and xxx xxxxxx.
Paige also was an absolute workhorse with a rubber arm, taking the mound any chance he got and gives the Crawfords a tandem that played together for the real life Pittsburgh Crawfords in 1936 thereby creating a great synergy for the team.
Batting average .279
Hits 3,055
Home runs 297
Stolen bases 1,406
Runs scored 2,295
10× All-Star (1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991)
2× World Series champion (1989, 1993)
3× Silver Slugger Award (1981, 1985, 1990)
Gold Glove Award (1981)
AL MVP (1990)
ALCS MVP (1989)
NL Comeback Player of the Year (1999)
12× AL stolen base champion (1980–1986, 1988–1991, 1998)
Oakland Athletics #24 retired
Was hoping he would fall to me considered taking him in the first.
With our second pick, Brooklyn selects one of the greatest 2B's of all time:
Napoleon ("Nap") Lajoie
National League RBI Champion: 1898
American League Triple Crown: 1901 (1st Triple Crown winner ever)
American League Home Run Champion: 1901
American League RBI Champion: 1901, 1904
American League Batting Champion: 1901, 1903, 1904, 1910
.339 lifetime batting average
.467 SLG%
13th all time in total hits (3242)
1599 RBIs (31st all time)
6x league leader in double plays
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The New York Giants are happy to select one of the best power hitter corner outfielders of all time, Frank Robinson.
*1961 NL MVP, 1966 AL MVP
*2-time World Series Champion (1966, 1970)
*1966 World Series MVP
*1966 AL Triple Crown
*1956 NL Rookie of the Year
*12-time All-Star
*586 career home runs - 9th all-time
*.926 career OPS, 154 OPS+
*Career .294/.389/.537
*100.9 career WAR - 19th all-time among position players
*10 home runs, .887 OPS in 35 postseason games
With our second pick, Brooklyn selects one of the greatest 2B's of all time:
Napoleon ("Nap") Lajoie
National League RBI Champion: 1898
American League Triple Crown: 1901 (1st Triple Crown winner ever)
American League Home Run Champion: 1901
American League RBI Champion: 1901, 1904
American League Batting Champion: 1901, 1903, 1904, 1910
.339 lifetime batting average
.467 SLG%
13th all time in total hits (3242)
1599 RBIs (31st all time)
6x league leader in double plays
Was hoping against hope that he did the impossible and fell to me at 56th (my next selection). Nap just might be the second-best second baseman of all-time after Rogers Hornsby.
