Scoresheet AL Cobb "Lumberkings"
Lumberkings (Scoresheet PAL)
Pitching Rotation
Colon is my Ace starter
Stein - Moehler - R Ortiz - Pettitte - Sabathia
I'm betting on C C Sabathia (he's on both P.A.L.'s)
If SHEUY fails, Sturtze or Wakefield may close
Escobar can start or set-up
Trombley is a decent reliever
Guardado (lefty's on both of my PAL's)
Yes I picked up Meluskey for 2001 :-(
Another brilliant addition :-( Nagy
Rhodes (LHP) gives Guardado help
How do you platoon 4 great young centerfielders???
BELTRAN - ENCARNACION - KAPLER - CAMERON
I guess I'm set up for trading.
Cox & Quinn LF/RF help.Plus the CF guys compete for AB's there too!
With speed/power prospect Dee Brown (OF) on the farm, along with Twin prospects Cuddyer (3B) & LeCroy (C), plus a pair of Texas 3B farmhands Lamb & Blalock.
Castilla 3B Walker 2B Vizquel SS
An infield of Todd Walker (2B), Vizquel (SS), and Vinny Castilla (3B) all return for another exciting season with the Lumberkings.
Walker & Vizquel, my double-play combo on both PAL's last year, were "Keepers" on both Lumberkings & Diamond Kings "Scoresheet" teams.
Vinny was set loose as a free agent after disasterous 2000 season, but I drafted him back when no one else wanted him this season!
I got Kapler & Moehler in Mateo deal.(I had Mateo on both Scoresheet teams, and kept him in the other league, so I can eat my cake and have it too!)
My "Lumberkings" play in A.L. Cobb, a league that dates back to the eighties, when Scoresheet Baseball first expanded to Canada. (Before Scoresheet Canada was introduced, I played against Americans from Texas to New York...something that is no longer allowed) I am a charter member (as are half the teams) of this, Canada's oldest perpetual AL league, still going strong in our third decade.
With my perpetual AL league being so old, there are naturally some "keepers" from the old days who would not be draftable in 2001, because they're in the NL.
Todd Walker is not a good example, because he just crossed over last summer.
Case in point is the senior circuit's "billboard" slugger, Mark McGwire, who still wears his A's uniform for me!
McGwire is still the firstbaseman on this perpetual American League SCORESHEET team, although I have Thome & McGriff too.
In a pinch, I might throw a good lefty 1B bat in LF, say with a righthander pitching, and hope the other team's lefties don't go "the other way".
Long time Lumberkings lost (not really)but not forgotten.
Since I live north of Cleveland, Robbie Alomar was a long time Lumberking. I live between Detroit & Toronto so I like to have guys on my team that I watch follow in real life. Higginson & Gonzalez were members of this team for many years, so they come back to visit their buddies.
I missed them so much that I acquired Bobby Higginson for my "Diamond King" Scoresheet team, and both Alex Gonzalez and Robbie Alomar for my Roto team.
