A little lacking in the power department -- I think only B. Robby and Lee May hit over 20 homers -- but great in the field.
Uncle?
69 LIVE DRAFT - 80 Mil w/ DH - FULL !
by TomSiebert » Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:16 am
Geez, I don't check the site for almost 2 days -- got last minute tix to the Giants/Cowgirls game Saturday night, that pretty much consumed the rest of my weekend, figured I had enough proxies in....and then.....THE DRAFT BARELY MOVED!!! I guess I got the M&M boys, Menke & Messersmith, but I was expecting bigger doings....
Argh. My next pick was Woody Held. Thought he would be a shocker for people. Guess not.
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Argh. My next pick was Woody Held. Thought he would be a shocker for people. Guess not.
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Roy White
by TomSiebert » Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:40 pm
....is my favorite baseball player of all time. Now he's playing on the Chappaquiddick Senators.
If he'd not popped up on the list of highest priced position players still remaining (thanks, Al!) I might have hoped that he and his (+2) arm would linger....but Roy's .392 OBA, massive clutch rating, and switch hitting ability (rarer in '69 than you would have thought) left me thinking he wouldn't last another round and there was only one other player screaming for me to take him with logic on his side.
Roy should be my leadoff hitter, but with 7 clutch opportunities he'll probably be hitting lower. Menke, with his 9 v. LH / 8 v. RH clutch rating will also be down there. Currently Fregosi is looking like my leadoff guy. He runs okay, though nothing special.
Roy White is singularly responsible for making me a baseball fan. My grandfather was watching a game in the late 60s or early 70s, when I had no interest yet in baseball. He had a game on, and I saw Roy White make this incredible catch, going into the stands to steal a HR away. It was mind-blowingly exciting for me, and I started to pay attention.
I later learned that Roy White was a master of stealing HRs in Yankee Stadium's left field. I remember the all-time classic when he climbed the walls with his spikes and went about four feet above the wall to rob some guy of a HR. One of the all time great catches I've seen in my life.
White, a black belt in karate, was a low-profile team player who didn't self-promote and got mostly lost among the marquis Yankee teams of the mid-70s, with Munson, Catfish, Nettles, Piniella, Sparky Lyle and of course "the guy who stirs the drink," Reggie Jax. But he finally got the recognition he deserved from Bill James, who ranks him in the top 20 of all time LF. He could hit for average or power, got on base a ton, played smart baseball and didn't complain when things weren't going his way. His big problem, the only thing that kept him from being the complete ballplayer, was that he couldn't throw (a +2 is probably generous).
He and Munson carried the Yankees in the early 70s, before the team started to jell, but he got shunted aside by Billy Martin in 1977, in favor of Lou Piniella (one of Martin's pets), when they won the series. In 1978, few people remember that one of the things that turned the Yankees' season around was Martin getting fired and Bob Lemon starting to platoon White and Piniella. White went on to have a strong '78 and won a game in the playoffs against KC with a clutch HR, then hit another in the World Series. I was so happy for him in 1978 when he got to wear a ring that he helped to earn.
1970 was his best season -- career highs in runs, RBI, HR, slugging, OPS -- but '69 comes close (career high OBA, 3rd best OPS).
Roy White always personified to me what a Yankee player should be: He was classy, talented, kept his head down and played hard and well for many years: 15 seasons, all in New York, from 1965 to 1979. I'm happy to have him on my team and it will definitely make the season more fun for me.
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If he'd not popped up on the list of highest priced position players still remaining (thanks, Al!) I might have hoped that he and his (+2) arm would linger....but Roy's .392 OBA, massive clutch rating, and switch hitting ability (rarer in '69 than you would have thought) left me thinking he wouldn't last another round and there was only one other player screaming for me to take him with logic on his side.
Roy should be my leadoff hitter, but with 7 clutch opportunities he'll probably be hitting lower. Menke, with his 9 v. LH / 8 v. RH clutch rating will also be down there. Currently Fregosi is looking like my leadoff guy. He runs okay, though nothing special.
Roy White is singularly responsible for making me a baseball fan. My grandfather was watching a game in the late 60s or early 70s, when I had no interest yet in baseball. He had a game on, and I saw Roy White make this incredible catch, going into the stands to steal a HR away. It was mind-blowingly exciting for me, and I started to pay attention.
I later learned that Roy White was a master of stealing HRs in Yankee Stadium's left field. I remember the all-time classic when he climbed the walls with his spikes and went about four feet above the wall to rob some guy of a HR. One of the all time great catches I've seen in my life.
White, a black belt in karate, was a low-profile team player who didn't self-promote and got mostly lost among the marquis Yankee teams of the mid-70s, with Munson, Catfish, Nettles, Piniella, Sparky Lyle and of course "the guy who stirs the drink," Reggie Jax. But he finally got the recognition he deserved from Bill James, who ranks him in the top 20 of all time LF. He could hit for average or power, got on base a ton, played smart baseball and didn't complain when things weren't going his way. His big problem, the only thing that kept him from being the complete ballplayer, was that he couldn't throw (a +2 is probably generous).
He and Munson carried the Yankees in the early 70s, before the team started to jell, but he got shunted aside by Billy Martin in 1977, in favor of Lou Piniella (one of Martin's pets), when they won the series. In 1978, few people remember that one of the things that turned the Yankees' season around was Martin getting fired and Bob Lemon starting to platoon White and Piniella. White went on to have a strong '78 and won a game in the playoffs against KC with a clutch HR, then hit another in the World Series. I was so happy for him in 1978 when he got to wear a ring that he helped to earn.
1970 was his best season -- career highs in runs, RBI, HR, slugging, OPS -- but '69 comes close (career high OBA, 3rd best OPS).
Roy White always personified to me what a Yankee player should be: He was classy, talented, kept his head down and played hard and well for many years: 15 seasons, all in New York, from 1965 to 1979. I'm happy to have him on my team and it will definitely make the season more fun for me.
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