Best of the 80s Decade: Under $1 Million Players

[Semper Gumby]

With the coming decline of the TSN's 80s SOM franchise and the long awaited arival of its 70s SOM franchise, why not honor our favorite long-shot cheap players for one last time?

[b:8c99488728]Only criteria is the player must cost less than $1 million dollars.[/b:8c99488728]

Players that I've generally found success with in leagues:

SP: Anderson
SP: Burris
SP: Pastore
SP: Comer
SP: Caldwell

RP: Kipper
RP: Murphy
RP: James
RP: Garber
RP: Worrell

C: Wathan
C: Cerone

1B: Francona
2B: Remy
SS: DeJesus
3B: Morrison

LF: Polonia or Hatcher
CF: G. Young
RF: Collins

Utility: Browne
DH: Martinez or Presley

[Sykes25]

SP- Swift, Lollar, Lapoint
RP- Nelson, Mohoric, Guetterman

C- Milt May
1B- Gerald Perry
2B- Oester
SS- Owen, Stillwell
3B- Buechele

Just to name a few.

[Semper Gumby]

[b:ba2a19aef0]So far, 2 submissions with listed players mentioned (with votes next to name if more than one mention)[/b:ba2a19aef0]

SP: Anderson
SP: Burris
SP: Pastore
SP: Comer
SP: Caldwell
SP: Swift
SP: Lollar
SP: Lapoint

RP: Kipper
RP: Murphy
RP: James
RP: Garber
RP: Worrell
RP: Nelson
RP: Mohoric
RP: Guetterman

C: Wathan
C: Cerone
C: May

1B: Francona
1B: Perry
2B: Remy
2B: Oester
SS: DeJesus
SS: Owen
SS: Stillwell
3B: Morrison
3B: Buechele

LF: Polonia
LF: Hatcher
CF: G. Young
RF: Collins

Utility: Browne
DH: Martinez or Presley

[YountFan]

These are the sub-million hitters from my database of over 30 leagues sorted by total AB. These are only guys who finished the season on a roster and their stats for their last team. Remy is used the most.

[url=http://home.comcast.net/~miklos2000/SubMillionHitters.pdf]Sub-Million Dollar Hitters[/url] (in PDF format)

[kmdarcy]

I'm new to this and my team's stinking (losing a ton of close games). But, I've found Aurelio Lopez and Donnie Moore very useful to date. Moore (RHP) dominates lefties. Royster hits well (can't field though) and Scott Fletcher hits well too.

[N Texas Widowmakers]

I've had good luck with Donnie Moore too. I also have had sucess with Carmelo Martinez who most recently started on a league champion team.

Big Ric

[Yellow_Dog]

I went through my teams and was surprised at how little my <1.0 mil guys had played for the most part. Lots of partial seasons and/or platoons for my guys in the field. I was surprised at how few good seasons I got out of cheap relievers.

SP: Mathews (9-6, 3.46 ERA); in a present league I have Mathews, Burris, and Schrom all with <4.00 ERA)
RP: Brusstar (8-6, 5 SV, 2.00 ERA), 5 other good seasons
RP: Dayley (10-7, 28 SV, 2.76 ERA, 1.06 WHIP)
RP: L. Anderson (3-3, 6 SV, 2.04 ERA, 1.08 WHIP)
RP: Gleaton (4-4, 14 SV, 3.09 ERA)
RP: Camp (4-3, 11 SV, 2.75 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, season in progress)
Biggest overperformance: Bob James, 3-2, 13 SV, 3.12 ERA, 1.10 WHIP with his 86 card!

C: Wathan (.291, .444 SLG, .348 OBP)
C: Salas (.291, 12 HR, .496 SLG, .349 OBP)-platoon
C: Benedict (.320, 10 HR, .527 SLG, .396 OBP)-platoon
C: May (.243, 14 HR, .412 SLG)
1B: Putnam (.273, 14 HR, .478 SLG)
2B: B. Ripken (.306, 34 2B, .397 SLG, .353 OBP)
2B: Oester (.279, 12 HR, .435 SLG)
2B: Aguayo (.305, 390 AB, 29 2b, 19 HR, 57 RBI, .546 SLG, .386 OBP)-platoon
2B: Duncan (.324, .466 SLG, .346 OBP)-platoon
SS: DeJesus (.284 avg in 313 AB)
SS: Griffin (.304 avg in 201 AB)
3B: Morrison (.334, 12 HR, 48 RBI, 308 AB, .533 SLG, .394 OBP)
LF: Polonia (.302, .424 SLG, .336 OBP)-platoon
LF: M. Young (.288, 257 AB, 16 HR, 50 RBI, .549 SLG, .386 OBP)
CF: G. Young (.323, 468 AB, .361 OBP, 29 SB)
RF: Dilone (.329, .354 OBP, 26 SB)-platoon

Biggest overperformance-Morrison with .927 OPS with '84 card.

By OPS my best sub mill seasons (>200 AB) were:
M. Young (257 AB): .933
Aguayo (390 AB): .932
Morrison (308 AB): .927
Benedict (203 AB): .921
Salas (222 AB): .845
Duncan (204 AB): 812

[honestiago1]

these are the players who've contributed to winning teams:

RP: TMartinez 4-7 3 sv, 87.2 67 37 68 3.08 1.19
RP: Dayley 5-2 1 sv. 45.0 33 16 31 1.60 1.09 for a championship team
RP: Lopez 7-7 44 sv. 102.1 83 39 73 2.64 1.19 (lost finals [had SEVERAL very good years with this guy, but this is the best of 'em])
RP: J. Robinson 12-4 1 sv. 130.1 119 46 99 3.38 1.27 (lost finals [diff team]) Robinson is undervalued.

OF/DH: Bailor, B. 311 42 14 0 26 21 .328 .379 .369 (champion)
and again: Bailor, B. 306 40 14 6 29 .294 .405 .314 (lost finals)

OF/DH Braggs 239 40 12 18 51 15 .243 .519 .297 (lost finals)
and again: Braggs 119 25 5 10 25 .336 .664 .355 (lost semis)

SS/DH Fletcher 344 42 12 2 22 30 .270 .340 .329 (yep -- he DH'ed a lot [no good top of the order hitters]) lost finals

Morrison 312 34 21 11 38 35 .276 .487 .349 (for a team that won 83)

GYoung 487 76 13 2 62 42 33 SB's 1-Error .314 .370 .372 (non-playoff team, 83 W's)

There've been others, but these are guys who contributed to winners.

[bjs73]

Cabell can be the perfect RH compliment to a platoon at 1b or even 3b for that matter. I use him often.

[jjd77447]

the best 75 i have spent so far was on bill caudill on my only champ team he saved 35 games 2.36 era and a 1.26 era, it was his 84 card.