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RF for the Andruw team: Tony Oliva. 42.6 WAR by the age of 32, .313/.361/.507 (mostly through the pitcher-dominated '60s), three batting titles, coming off eight straight seasons where he got MVP votes. He gets hurt and barely plays in '72, then he becomes one of the pilot DHs, where he has three decent but not especially distinguished seasons. Retires at 38, but he was essentially finished at 32.
― clemenza, Sunday, 8 September 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link
Giambi's career arc is a lot more like Thome's than Andruw Jones'.
Nobody mentioned Dick Allen yet. He had his last great season at 30, his last good one at 32, and was finished at 35.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 8 September 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
Albert Belle
Jim Wynn (also lost a ton of HRs to Astrodome most likely...)
Then you got the really big dudes that were good until they hit their 30s. They are pretty similar to guys like Killebrew or Thome, except they flat lines where those two were still productive into their mid-late 30s.
Richie Sexton
Frank Howard
Mo Vaughn
Ted Kluszewski
Ralph Kiner (still got in the HOF though...)
― earlnash, Monday, 9 September 2013 02:49 (ten years ago) link
I like Belle for LF. My team:
C: Munson
1B: Dick Allen (there's a paradox in picking someone like Allen over Mattingly--Allen probably should be in the HOF, and therefore, at least for me, he becomes less Andruw-like than Mattingly, who clearly falls short--but Allen nonetheless fits the profile well)
2B: Knoblauch
SS: Nomar
3B: Troy Glaus (very solid till he's 31, 300 HR and 38.0 WAR, then he's finished; Rolen and Bando and others were clearly better, but I think their declines were more normal than sudden)
LF: Belle
CF: Andruw
RF: Oliva
Starters: Gooden, Sam McDowell, Messersmith, Stieb
Closer: Robb Nen
Manager: Joe Schultz
I just want Joe Schultz as my manager no matter what. He has nothing whatsoever to do with Andruw Jones.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 September 2013 03:40 (ten years ago) link
four years pass...