FJM, Jon Heyman, and ed coffin

by Adam J. Morris on Jun 29, 2007 9:17 PM CDT in News Comment 25 comments

Fire Joe Morgan has a piece up talking about Jon Heyman's "what 5 players would you want if you were starting a franchise" article a couple of days ago.

I didn't link it because I didn't really care. And I didn't read it that closely.

But I wish I did, because I missed what FJM picked up on:

Most of the results are what you'd expect. Reyes, Verlander, ARod, Peavy, Papelbon, Sizemore, etc. Ichiro gets three too-many votes. But the dumbest thing is in the "others receiving votes" category. Because receiving one vote is:

Yadier Molina.

Yadier. Molina. To build a franchise around.

He is an excellent defensive catcher. He also has 17 career HR. A .227 career EqA. And a .296 career OBP.

My initial reaction was, "Ed Coffin is working in an MLB front office?"

But obviously not, because Oliver Perez didn't get any votes.

Anyway...if anyone is interested, my five would be Mauer, Sizemore, Wright, Santana, and Peavy.

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Mine

Mauer
Peavy
Santana
Cabrera
Reyes

Sizemore is right there. Not sure why one would really prefer Wright to, say, Hanley Ramirez, unless you think that HanRam is playing over his head for a full season and a half.

by Brett Perryman on Jun 29, 2007 9:20 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Yadier

Good recall, Adam. Heh .. I wouldn't "core" him though, I wanted to add him to this team for his D.

Time does funny things. The worst of which is, it keeps moving when you don't.

by Ed Coffin on Jun 29, 2007 9:21 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Mine

Mauer
Santana
Sizemore
Cabrera
Hanley

Good Call!!!

12-7

by mdickson on Jun 29, 2007 9:32 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

the standard

Albert Pujols
Justin Morneau
johan santana
jake peavy
justin verlander

Al Gore 2008 http://www.myspace.com/igotsculture

by gossamer on Jun 29, 2007 9:34 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

mine:

Pujols
Santana
Verlander
Hanley
Sizemore

by rubbersoul103 on Jun 29, 2007 9:37 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

My five:

Verlander
Utley
Papelbon
Hamels
Miguel Cabrera

by willamos2 on Jun 29, 2007 9:55 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Vlad

He's a little older (31) than the guys mentioned, but not exactly old.

Pujols
Peavy
Fielder
Cabrera

by Randy Richardson on Jun 29, 2007 10:10 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

wha

Pujols and Prince on the same team? Where are you going to put them? Shouldn't you take position into acct?

loves me some "loves me some"

by trza on Jun 30, 2007 3:17 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah

I misread the question to be five players who it would be best to build a team around (I was thinking I could only have one of them). If I get a mulligan: Mauer, Fielder, Vlad, Peavy, Santana.

by Randy Richardson on Jun 30, 2007 4:59 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs