mvp 78

Royals sign Colten Brewer to MiLB deal.

JBJ 19-21: 2.1 fWAR Kimbrel 19-21: 1.2 fWAR No deal!

Low risk, low reward guy. If he still could field like 2019, it would make sense. Seems that he's lost a step though.

Ok.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_replacement_players

This is a Berenstein Bears situation. Maybe Lou wasn't in the game? My Xbox broke a long time ago and google isn't showing full rosters anymore.

Merloni: "I don't want any part of that. I don't want those kids to go through what I went through in 1995," Merloni said Tuesday night on NBC Sports Boston's "Boston Sports Tonight." A 10th-round pick of the Red Sox living off a $5,000 signing bonus, Merloni was given an ultimatum: cross the picket line to play in spring training games as a replacement player or lose his job. "They basically said, 'We want you to play tomorrow in these games,' " Merloni recalled. "And I said, 'I'm not playing.' And they said, 'You have 24 hours to decide, and if you say no, your career is over.' So, after talking to family and friends -- hell, I've got family high up in North American labor unions -- and we talked all night long to some of these people and said, 'What am I going to do here?' "Well, I decided to play. I didn't want to get released. I didn't want to end my career. I played in one spring training game, I faked an injury, I got out of it, I didn't receive any kind of money at all. And next thing you know, baseball is back and now all of a sudden I'm on a list like everybody else." Merloni went on to enjoy a nine-year MLB career but was permanently banned from the MLBPA along with other replacement players. Suffice it to say, he doesn't want any current minor leaguer to meet the same fate. "It wasn't fair what they did to me, what they did to a lot of other kids in that system," Merloni said. "I'd hate to see baseball put them in that spot again, because it's a no-win spot for anybody."

It was always annoying to play MVP 04 and not have Millar. What am I going to keep Jeremy Giambi or Dave McCarty to play at 1b? Play Papi at 1b fulltime? Create a new character? Put Ellis Burks at 1b? I'd always just use a FA signing on Andres Gallaraga and have him stand in for Millar. While an active player, Millar was not a member of the MLBPA (Major League Baseball Players Association), and therefore his name or likeness could not be published in officially-licensed video games. Many games nevertheless included him and other non-MLBPA players, with fictional names and different appearances. In MVP Baseball 2004, he was not included. In MVP Baseball 2005 and MLB Front Office Manager, Millar is replaced by "Anthony Friese". In Major League Baseball 2K5 and Major League Baseball 2K6, he is replaced by "Carlos Ahearn". In MLB 07: The Show and in MLB 08: The Show, he is replaced by "Ivan Jimenez". In Major League Baseball 2K7, Major League Baseball 2K8 and Major League Baseball 2K9, Millar is replaced by "Kyle Morgan", with the same initials. In MLB Power Pros 2008, he is replaced by "Great Johnson". In MLB 09: The Show, on the online roster update, he is replaced by "Dave Herman". In MLB Dugout Heroes, Millar is replaced by "Kane Matthews" with the same initials. In all instances, the statistics of these characters are based on the real Kevin Millar. Other guys who appeared as strikebreakers in 1995: Brian Daubach Cory Lidle Lou Merloni Alex Ramirez Peter Rose Jr Now, Lou Merloni was in MVP 04. How did he get into the MLBPA? I'm going to have to figure out why Millar was not allowed into the MLBPA but Merloni was.

WRC+ 2011 3rd 2012 20th 2013 7th 2014 25th 2015 22nd 2016 15th 2017 25th 2018 14th 2019 26th 2020 8th 2021 20th 1b has been so much of a shitshow that you have to defend 2016 and 2018 as plus years when they were clearly middle of the road. Aside from Napoli being in beast mode at the start of 2013 and Dalbec being a human volcano at the end of 2020, there hasn't been much to talk about positively for an important offensive cog.

Curse of the Castillo, the Rusney's Paw if you will...

They started 1995 off with scab players right? I think that's why Kevin Millar was never allowed onto MLB video games because he played in some scab games.

I left Yaz off because he didn't play 1b in the 60's and his best seasons were as a LFer. He had one season in the 60's as a CFer, but felt it was cheating just to put him there. I'm not a stickler for rules on stupid games like this though.

I love the Pokey Reese pick.

I don't know if players would maintain or lose arb years if the season was cancelled.

I originally had Dimaggio and Pedroia on the list. I ended up shifting my 00's to Youk, because I preferred him over George Scott at 1b.

Uh, I don't think you're looking at the right player. Mazara: -21 career DRS in OF -0.6 UZR/150 -4.3 career dWAR

Only 1 of those since the Castillo blunder.

I don't think so.

And 1b has been kind of a shitshow for the Sox ever since trading AGon. Having Abreu there would have solved a big hole for the org.

Going back over the past 9 decades, create the best Sox lineup without reusing a decade: 20's Raffy 3B 10's Papi DH 00's Youk 1B 90's Garciaparra SS 80's Dewey RF 70's Fisk C 60's Smith CF 50's Ted Williams LF 40's Doerr 2B

Get ready to do a deep dive on Carney Lansford, everybody.

It is now my job to come up with an argument that has never been had on here before...

@OverTheMonster Brayan Bello made BA's list of 15 players who just missed their top 100.

@SmittyOnMLB Alex Binelas, David Hamilton, Boston Red Sox prospects from Hunter Renfroe trade, will attend 2022 winter camp

I bet they tried to trade him, but the return was never great enough to take the lux tax hit.