Best Third Basemen Comparison

Best Third Basemen Comparison

On to the hot corner! Once again, if you need a refresher on how this works look here..

Third base is a bit closer to 1B than 2B is, with some real power hitters, however they have there is some of the finesse you’ll find at 2B or SS. Some of the greatest in the game played third, let’s see how it translates to their cards!

Baseball Movie List

It's almost time for the baseball season to begin. I don't know about you but I'm excited. Luckily we have all these great Showdown cards to keep everyone going on the off days. I know we have great content coming up this Spring training and through out the year so keep tuned. Me and my league are doing our 1 day drinking tournaments as well as getting prepped for our 16 man league with the 2018 set once its fully released. In the meantime how are we to fill our nights??

Well I for one am going to try to fill them with a plethora of baseball movies. I have put together a big list of baseball movies to get us through this down time through pitchers and catchers reporting and spring training. I will also be reviewing the movies on Twitter @BobBumbarger. You can let me know your thoughts on these as well or any movies I may have missed that aren't on the list. I will start on 2/7/19.

Lets start off with the spring training list to get you warmed up:

Baseball - Ken Burns Documentary 1-12

2018 Season 1 Super Draft World Series

Its been awhile since I have posted about the Super Draft league. To do a short reminder we had 10 teams. 2 Divisions of 5 teams with the best 2 from each division making the playoffs. Teams were 18 player min with optional bench with 5500 points salary cap. For the players in the draft we had 2000, 2000 pennant, 2001, 2001 pennant, 2014, and custom cards all in 00-01 style. It was roughly 2000 cards to draft from. After a grueling 18 game season that took 5+ months to complete because of scheduling we finally have a winner! So I hope all you early voters picked..... the T-800s to win it all. Not many did but the team came through very big when it mattered. The T-800s started off the season 0-4. After a much needed team pep talk and some lineup tweaks he went 10-4 in the next 14 games to finish 10-8 tied for 1st place in the AL Division.

MLB SHOWDOWN 2018 SET -- Chicago White Sox

It was only a matter of time till we starting getting to the teams in the AL nobody wants to talk about. But we are going to talk about them. Some of them will find homes on teams. And there are some things to talk about on the team. But on the whole the team is far below par. Hitting exactly 100 loses for the season (62-100) they are exactly what you think they are. Though they have some good prospects coming up as well as talks of landing a big free agent so there is always that. With the line up lets break down the line up. Listen to the podcast below.

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Just a heads up on this lineup... there is only one 8 OB batter and that is the highest OB on the team

'92-'93 Toronto Blue Jays

The back-to-back champs are back...in a 2002 style! The '92-'93 Blue Jays have finally made it to showdown form! This was quite the dominant team with a great lineup and solid pitching filled with Hall of Famers. Here's some stats from the teams:

1992:
Record: 96-66
Manager: Pat Gillick
Park: SkyDome
Batting: .263 BA / .333 OBP / 163 HR
Pitching: 3.91 ERA / 1.31 WHIP / 954 SO
Awards: none

1993:
Record: 95-67
Manager: Pat Gillick
Park: SkyDome
Batting: .279 BA / .350 OBP / 159 HR
Pitching: 4.21 ERA / 1.43 WHIP / 1023 SO
Awards: none

LINEUP:
This lineup is sure to put some pressure on your opponents defense, especially if they're using lower control pitchers. This team has 3 OB 10 players as well as an OB 11! This team sure doesn't struggle with with getting on. This team is not the most homerun heavy team, but they will put up some solid doubles and triples. This team also great speed including Henderson and Alomar's 23 speed. The defense is solid and will get the job done without letting down your pitchers. This lineup also features the historic Joe Carter walk off picture card.

Best Second Basemen Comparison

Real world stepped in a bit but I’ll continue to roll these out. If you need a refresher on how this works look here.

Second base has had a wide range of type of players, from the newer age power hitters to shortstops who couldn’t make the throw back in the day. I think this position has a really interesting and diverse population, as you’ll see by the different lists.  

2018 Indians Sim Season

Hey everyone, long time no talk, but I am excited to finally unveil what I have have been working on for the past month or so. I am playing the Cleveland Indians 2018 schedule with their 2018 team that was released on the blog site, if you haven't checked them out yet click here.  Here are some of the specifics for the season that I am running. I built a 5000 point team for every other team in the MLB of 20 players no bench discount from the 2000 and 2001 original sets. The only team that didn't have to follow the 5000 point rule was those damn Yankees and evil George Steinbrenner's open check book. Now I am only playing out the Indians schedule not the other teams, so what I have done is taken the team records from 1999 and 2000 season and added them together to get a win percentage. The records for them from the games I play against them will also count against that same winning percentage. That is how the playoffs will be determined. My goal from this is once a player reaches the same amount of plate appearances and at-bats as they did in the 2018 season is to compare the statistics and see how close they came or if they exceeded their card value. Same with the pitchers and their innings pitched.

I also do not want to be doing write ups for every series or even game until I finally get to the playoffs so my plan is to give in season monthly updates and this will be the first one as I have officially played through the last 2 days of March and through the month of April. I will give a monthly summary on the players and how I feel they have contributed through the month as well. I am excited to see what type of results I will get and hopefully you will be as well.