The goal is simple. Here’s a list of minor-league free agents. Your goal is to make a team out of them, write their names down on a piece of paper, and mail it back through time to 2008, just to mess with someone. Include a note that reads, “Your team is going to have the payroll to sign all these guys before 2014! All of them!”
Making a team out of minor-league free agents
Justin Edmonds
Because these guys were all going to be stars at one point, dang it. Here is the Minor League Free Agent All-Star Team of Unfair Expectations. No fair using guys like Dontrelle Willis or Jonathan Sanchez, who were once successful. `
C - J.R. Towles
1B - Matt Laporta
2B - Ivan De Jesus, Jr.
SS - Reid Brignac
3B - Andy Marte
LF - Fernando Martinez
CF - Gorkys Hernandez
RF - Jeremy Hermida
SP - Mark Rogers
SP - Tim Alderson
SP - Daniel McCutchen
SP - Loek Van Mil
SP - Fautino De Los Santos
CP - Jose Ceda
Hermida and Brignac are the ones that still get me. Thought they were going to be stars.
And I don’t think Van Mil was ever a top-100 prospect, but he is 7’1”, so he makes the team because I want to watch him pitch.
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