so the death of yordano ventura got me thinking that "man, you could cobble together a pretty solid rotation out of prematurely-dead pitchers" and then i got to assembling it and here's what i came up with.

1. Jose Fernandez
2. Addie Joss
3. Darryl Kile
4. Yordano Ventura
5. Tommy Hanson (could easily be #3/4 if you go back to the early years when he had a shoulder)
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6. Cory Lidle (because i still think that early-years tommy-hanson > lidle, who at best would be a solid innings eater at #4/5 in this rotation)

and then for the actual starting lineup alls i know is that i've got a couple positions easily filled out:

C - Thurman Munson
1B - Lou Gehrig
2B - Kenny Hubbs
SS -
3B -
OF - Oscar Taveras
OF - Roberto Clemente (idk if he was a "5 WAR player" like Taveras so we'll pencil him in at #2 =)
OF - Lyman Bostock (cuz a dude who was like ~10-15HR/75-90RBI per season could be useful on this team)

so does anyone have some ideas for my all-dead team, or at least have a rotation that can take mine out? LIGHT EM UP! *jeopardy theme*

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Pitchers are solid

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Roberto Clemente

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2B - Kenny Hubbs

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You know me like that.

Nick Adenhart

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Addie Joss needs a spot in the rotation.

Bullpen guys: Nick Adenhart, Danny Frisella, Nestor Chavez, Bob Moose

1B: Jake Daubert
2B: Ken Hubbs?
SS: Ray Chapman
3B: Jose Oliva
OF: Clemente, Delahanty

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

Jason Heyward

C: Josh Gibson

Hartog Hamburger

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

Addie Joss has to be the No. 1 starter. I think he threw a perfect game and dropped dead.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Babe should have lived forever.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

When they change the rules of the HOF to let you in, you're pretty good.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

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1b - Lou Gehrig
OF - Ed Delahanty
RP - Steve Olin

UT- Steve Macko

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

Put Lyman Bostock in lf.

I guess Marte has to go somewhere as an unfortunate placeholder

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

definitely got my 1B there, and i'mma go with that 2B guy everyone keeps mentioning cuz that's gotta be a consensus pick!

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Thats pretty good, but you should have put somebody still alive in that list.

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you know, as i look through the wikipedia list of MLB players who died during their careers (where i reckon a good # of these "literally who?" names came from) as i try to find a 3B i came across a dude named "Jiggs Parrott" and i couldn't help but think "man wouldn't it be perfect if he died of hypothermia? you know, if a coat drive could have saved him?" -- lamentably his cause of death was tuberculosis =/

and btw, to anyone who wasn't thinking of adding Pickles Dillhoefer to their team...

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I was considering putting Steve Francis in the lineup.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

There should be more love for the original OJ. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Bergen_(baseball)

A true alpha as he killed his wife (and kids!) while he was still married. Didn't let any strange climb inside his wife before ending her. A man's man to the end.

He also received a single Hall of Fame vote. Might want to check up on the dude that voted for him.

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Clemente in right and Sean Taylor in center nothing is getting down.

Bunch of dead arms

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Any all "Dead" team without Jerry Garcia in it is just BS!

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Proud to be UNVERIFIED.

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