What if?

Jesse introduced me to a new website the other day, whatifsports.com. It's a site dedicated to fantasy predictions and projections. It allows you to created dream teams and fantasy rosters and pit them against each other.

At the moment, we're each creating a fantasy team with an $80mil salary cap. Here's the team I've got so far (25 man roster)

STARTERS

C - 1992 Chris Hoiles

1B - 1987 Will Clark

2B - 2007 Dustin Pedroia

3B - 1974 Brooks Robinson

SS - 1961 Maury Wills

LF - 1953 Ted Williams

CF - 1956 Roberto Clemente

RF - 1996 Juan Gonzalez

BENCH

SS - 1994 Omar Vizquel

1B - 2006 Howie Kendrick

OF - 1991 Dwight Evans

C - 1987 Mike Stanley

OF - 1982 Brett Butler

ROTATION

SP - 1964 Sandy Koufax

SP - 1991 Randy Johnson

SP - 1967 Luis Tiant

SP - 2007 Felix Hernandez

SP - 2000 Javier Vazquez

RP - 1973 Frank Tanana

RP - 2008 John Smoltz

RP - 1997 Chad Fox

RP - 2000 Bob Wickman

RP - 1965 Steve Carlton

RP - 1885 Unknown Palmer

RP - 2002 Troy Percival (closer)

Now if this team were somehow compiled in real life, no existing team, from any year, would beat them. The rotation is better than the '93 Braves and the offense is better than the '75 Reds. I think the defense it better than what the Reds had too.

Naturally, I made a little collage of some of the best players on the team.