I'm sure we have all thought about this before... (POLL INSIDE)

by fishstick on Dec 3, 2008 12:30 PM EST Comment 7 comments

But I am extremely bored at work and figured we could all get involved in this (if for no other reason than to amuse myself). If this has been done here before... oh well let's do it again! Either way, here is what I have gathered you all here for!

If we could take out 1997 World Series team and peg them into a 7-Game series against our 2003 World Series team. Who would win?

In case some of you have forgotten, here is a breakdown of all the players who recorded any sort of statistic in each world series.

1997

Batting:

Kurt Abbott
Moises Alou
Alex Arias
Bobby Bonilla
John Cangelosi
Jeff Conine
Craig Counsell
Darren Daulton
Jim Eisenreich
Cliff Floyd
Charles Johnson
Edgar Renteria
Gary Sheffield
Devon White
Gregg Zaun

Pitching:

Antonio Alfonseca
Kevin Brown
Dennis Cook
Felix Heredia
Livan Hernandez
Al leiter
RObb Nen
Jay Powell
Tony Saunders
Ed Vosberg

now onto...

2003

Batting:

Miguel Cabrera
Luis Castillo
Jeff Conine
Juan Encarnacion
Alex Gonzalez
Todd Hollandsworth
Derek Lee
Mike Lowell
Juan Pierre
Mike Redmond
Ivan Rodriguez

Pitching:

Josh Beckett
Chad Fox
Rick Helling
Braden Looper
Carl Pavano
Brad Penny
Mark Redman
Ugueth Urbina
Dontrelle Willis

Me, personally, am going to toss my vote to the latter of our World Series victories. I'm sure some of you will agree or disagree. Some of you may actually just think I have no life since I am putting this together at work. Oh well.

Also, I know that it would be physically impossible to peg these two at each other thanks to a certain someone (thanks mr. marlin). So as a disclaimer, there is no way that this game will actually take place. Sorry if I got any of your hopes up.

Poll

Whch Marlins team would win in a 7-Game series?

1997 World Series Champions

6 votes

2003 World Series Champions

28 votes

34 votes | Poll has closed

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2003!

Phil, read this… http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=3717193&name=gammons_peter

My vote goes for the 2003 group – you can give the ’97 squad Conine and let the games begin. Also remember Luis Castillo was on the ML roster for the first few months of the year in 1997. I like the rotation of Beckett, Penny, Burnett, and Pavano with Dontrelle in the pen. One hell of a team

by FriedFish on Dec 3, 2008 2:13 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

oh man

december just started and I can’t wait until march. :(

by fishstick on Dec 3, 2008 3:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

hahah

i have already started tailgating for the season opener…

by FriedFish on Dec 4, 2008 2:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

2003

They were lucky. You can’t top that.

by brickell on Dec 3, 2008 7:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

2003

The Pitching would just dominate with, Beckett, Penny, Willis. Really it doesn’t matter after that… Much less power on the 2003 squad but they’ll still get the job done.

The Phins Report

by yboord028 on Dec 4, 2008 1:18 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

2003

But I thought this was interesting:

Kevin Brown – 2.69 ERA, 1.18 WHIP
LIvan Hernandez – 3.18 ERA, 1.23 WHIP
Al Leiter – 4.34 ERA, 1.48 WHIP

Josh Beckett – 3.04 ERA, 1.32 WHIP
Dontrelle Willis – 3.30 ERA, 1.376 WHIP
Brad Penny – 4.13 ERA, 1.278 WHIP

Those are just regular season stats, but damn, Kevin Brown was a monster in 1997 (aside from the world series choke job). And the team was still able to win in 7 with their #1 starter going 0-2.

2003 is fresher in my mind, but I think it would be a really close series.

oh, and long time lurker, first time poster here. greets.

by skronch on Dec 4, 2008 3:26 PM EST reply actions 0 recs