25-man Roster with one player from each team

[backwardsk]

In the spirit of the threads where you pick a team while using a letter of the alphabet once, this is similar in the sense that you pick a team while only chosing one guy per team. Assumptions are that you play with AL rules. For consistancy sake, let's say that you have to have a 12 man pitching staff. You can put starters into your bullpen if you like.

Here's mine:

Choo RF (Cle)

Hamilton LF (Tex)

Pujols 1B (StL)

Cabrera DH (Det)

Longoria 3B (Tam)

Cano 2B (NYY)

Gonzalez CF (Col)

Mauer C (Min)

Castro SS (Chi-NL)

Bench:

Youkilis 1B-3B (Bos); Escobar SS-2B (Tor); Markakis OF (Bal); McCann C (Atl)

Rotation:

Halladay (PHI)

Lincecum (SFG)

Hernandez (SEA)

Josh Johnson (FLA)

Weaver (LAA)

Bullpen:

Grienke (MIL)

Soria (KC)

Storen (WAS)

Kuo (LAD)

Chapman (CIN)

Bailey (Oak)

Bell (SD)

[The Epic]

In the spirit of the threads where you pick a team while using a letter of the alphabet once, this is similar in the sense that you pick a team while only chosing one guy per team. Assumptions are that you play with AL rules. For consistancy sake, let's say that you have to have a 12 man pitching staff. You can put starters into your bullpen if you like.

Here's mine:

Choo RF (Cle)

Hamilton LF (Tex)

Pujols 1B (StL)

Cabrera DH (Det)

Longoria 3B (Tam)

Cano 2B (NYY)

Gonzalez CF (Col)

Mauer C (Min)

Castro SS (Chi-NL)

Bench:

Youkilis 1B-3B (Bos); Escobar SS-2B (Tor); Markakis OF (Bal); McCann C (Atl)

Rotation:

Halladay (PHI)

Lincecum (SFG)

Hernandez (SEA)

Josh Johnson (FLA)

Weaver (LAA)

Bullpen:

Grienke (MIL)

Soria (KC)

Storen (WAS)

Kuo (LAD)

Chapman (CIN)

Bailey (Oak)

Bell (SD)

Hm.

I'd probably replace Josh Johnson with David Price, replace Longoria with Hanley, replace Escobar with Batista, and stick Batista in the lineup.

I like this idea, though.

[Vertigo]

Pretty good ... I think mine would go something like ...

C: Joe Mauer / Minnesota Twins

1B: Albert Pujols / St. Louis Cardinals

2B: Robinson Cano / New York Yankees

3B: Evan Longoria / Tampa Bay Rays

SS: Troy Tulowitski / Colorado Rockies

LF: Ryan Braun / Milwaukee Brewers

CF: Josh Hamilton / Texas Rangers

RF: Justin Upton / Arizona Diamondbacks

DH: Miguel Cabrera / Detroit Tigers

OF: Andrew McCutchen / Pittsburgh Pirates

CIF: Kevin Youkilis / Boston Red Sox

MIF: Jose Reyes / New York Mets

C: Matt Wieters / Baltimore Orioles

SP: Roy Halladay / Philadelphia Phillies

SP: Felix Hernandez / Seattle Mariners

SP: Tim Lincecum / San Francisco Giants

SP: Josh Johnson / Florida Marlins

SP: Tommy Hanson / Atlanta Braves

CL: Joakim Soria / Kansas City Royals

RP: Heath Bell / San Diego Padres

RP: Drew Storen / Washington Nationals

RP: Andrew Bailey / Oakland Athletics

RP: Carlos Marmol / Chicago Cubs

RP: Hong Chi Kuo / Los Angeles Dodgers

LR: Jered Weaver / Los Angeles Angels

[Spy Fox]

My initial thoughts:

C- Joe Mauer (MIN)

Brian McCann (ATL)

1B- Albert Pujols (STL)

Miguel Cabrera (DET)

2b- Robinson Cano (NYY)

Ss- Hanley Ramirez (FLA)

Troy Tulowitzki (COL)

3b- Ryan Zimmerman (WAS)

Of- Carl Crawford (BOS)

Josh Hamilton (TEX)

Justin Upton (ARI)

Shin-Soo Choo (CLE)

Andrew McCutchen (PIT)

Sp- Roy Halladay (PHI)

Tim Lincecum (SFG)

Felix Hernandez (SEA)

Zack Greinke (MIL)

Clayton Kershaw (LAD)

Rp- Joakim Soria (KC)

Heath Bell (SD)

Carlos Marmol (CHC)

Francisco Rodriguez (NYM)

Andrew Bailey (OAK)

Jered Weaver (LAA)

David Price (TAM)

The teams with no representatives were Baltimore, Toronto, Houston, Chicago White Sox, and Cincinnati.

I would have preferred Longoria at 3B over Zimmerman, but Zimmerman is almost as good and I would have had to go a long way down the SP line to find another pitcher on a team without a representative yet.