Clack wrote:
polarbear1982 wrote:
Bobby the terrible wrote:
My predicted 1-161 record doesn't look as possible now as it did on march 10th.


Yeah - but you could create a 1-161 team from a lot of the 2009 roster:

1B - Coste
2B - Jason Smith
SS - Kata
3B - Aaron Boone
C - Quintero
RF - Abercrombie
CF - Michaels
LF - Erstad

Starting rotation: Backe, Ortiz, Paulino, Hampton, Moehler

I know it's a joke, but that team would probably win about 50 games. People who run these kind of scenarios claim that a replacement level team should win about 60 games and a bad AAA team would win about 40 games in the majors.


It was a joke. Given your scenario, I'll buy 40 wins, but not much more than that. The Washington Nationals are on pace to win 54 games - and their lineup is MUCH stronger than the lineup above with Adam Dunn, Ryan Zimmerman, Christian Guzman and Nyjer Morgan being better than all of the above. Aside from John Lannan being a slide upgrade over the rotation below, the starting rotation is about equal...scary.