japes Era - Third Base

 Third Basemen of the japes Era

Planet japes Updated House Rules

 Planet japes has updated their House Rules for our games

Some of these have been used previously or for awhile.  I just hadn't posted them here in awhile.  So instead of going back over and seeing what's changed I just copied our current version in it's completion here.  I took a lot of the out of position stuff from the 30 for 30 league on GreatestMLBShowdown.

japes Era - Second Base

 Second Basemen from the japes Era

 

japes Era - First Base

 First Basemen of the japes Era

There were lots of players that could have been chosen for this section.  I know there that I probably missed some well deserving players.  I did eliminate some highly ranked players such as Miguel Cabrera, Joey Votto, and Paul Goldschmidt on the grounds that they are still active.  But there were plenty of Hall of Fame players in this era at first base as well.  I was originally intending to only include a few DH players in my set but there were a few DH/1B types that I ended up shifting to the DH list so I could get a as many deserving players in this set as I could.

For those that may not be aware...I detest count downs. I'm not too concerned with the minutia of ranking the decimal point differences between great players.  I prefer to celebrate greatness for what it is.  So instead of ranking them in any particular order, I will just present these 10 players randomly as the mood strikes me.  Another note, we are currently running a simmed league on the Discord called 30 for 30.  You can learn more about this from some "good friends of our show" over at GreatestMLBShowdown.  As such many cards for great seasons have been created for that league using the bot.  Because of this, in many instances I purposely didn't use those seasons for players.  This gives us more variety in team building.

Enough chit chat...on to the show.

japes Era - Catchers Part 2

Catchers of the japes Era part 2

For the final portion of this section of the Flashback Friday I give you the second grouping of Catchers in the great age of baseball known as "the japes Era".  These aren't a second tier of players as last week as you will see.  Just 5 more for the set including three Hall of Famers and two with aspirations to someday be there as well.  

So once again...barely into this thing and I'm breaking my rules again.  I didn't plan to add any active players to this set.  However, since he already announced that 2022 would be his final season (and the possibility that season doesn't happen) I decided why not.  Full disclosure, my son asked me if Yadi was going to be in the set and he wasn't thrilled to learn that he wasn't.  This is also the reason we have 11 catchers in our set of 10.  If you haven't noticed a theme here already shame on you.  If my son want's the player...he's probably going to be in the set.  So here is Yadier's 4th place MVP season of 2012.