Identifying the Greats

duke776 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:44 pm

stevenjackson39 wrote:

duke776 wrote:

I know Kevin Millar isn't in the player union because he played during the strike in the 94 season, so he'll never be allowed in the players union. I am pretty sure there are a couple more people like this but I can't remember them right now.

But Kevin Millar was in last year's game.

He was under a fake name, he didn't have his actual name in the game.

odawali · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:20 pm

Wow huge increase in the number of greats.

JohnnyBoy · **Posted:** Fri Aug 01, 2008 2:05 am

What about Barry Bonds? Does he exist at all?

lanceberkman · **Posted:** Fri Aug 01, 2008 10:49 am

I doubt it. Has he officially retired yet?

DeevFactor · **Posted:** Sat Aug 02, 2008 12:59 pm

It takes a litle research to find out the AAA Greats. Seeing as the rosters are based closely on opening day rosters (or at least mid-April), I've been checking with the Wikipedia and comparing the opening day 40-man rosters listed in the archives with the in-game rosters. Hopefully, I got most of these right and if not, well I guess mistakes happen.

Here's some from a few of the AL teams with Greats in them.

Red Sox
C Great Reyes (AAA) - George Kotteras
C Great Harris (AAA) - Dusty Brown
1B Great Lopez (AAA) - ??? [There are a few infielders with a similar birth year, but no matches yet]

Blue Jays
SP Great Guillen (AAA) - Gustavo Chacín

Indians
2B Great Santana (AAA) - Josh Barfield
RP Great Soriano (AAA) - Brian Slocum
RP Great Sanchez (AAA) - Edward Mujica

Tigers
RP Great Roberts (AAA) - ???

I'll get to the rest some other time.

bgarrett7 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:14 pm

I took some notes on the Greats last night and this morning, so there is some room for error, that's why I have so many RH/LH notes.

Code:

GREAT   TEAM   POS   MLB IDENTITY   NOTE
Reyes   BOS   C   George Kottaras   
Harris   BOS   C   Dusty Brown   
Lopez   BOS   1B   Chris Carter (?)   I've got Lopez being RH, but Carter is LH.
Gordon   NYY   3B   Wilson Betemit   
Guillen   TOR   P   Gustavo Chacin   
Johnson   BAL   1B   Kevin Millar   
Thompson   BAL   P   Jamie Walker   
Santana   CLE   2B   Josh Barfield   
Soriano   CLE   P   Brian Slocum (?)   
Sanchez   CLE   P   Edward Mujica (?)   
Roberts   DET   P   Francisco Cruceta (?)   
Lowe   MIN   C   Jose Morales   
Byrd   MIN   2B   Alexi Castilla   
Sweeney   MIN   P   Glen Perkins   
Hart   CWS   LF/3B   Josh Fields   
Floyd   CWS   OF   Jerry Owens   
Snyder   CWS   P   Andrew Sisco   
Lee   CWS   P   Charlie Haeger (?)   
Bautista   CWS   P   Lance Broadway (?)   
Miller   KCR   P   Ron Mahay   
Molina   KCR   1B   Ryan Shealy   
Jimenez   KCR   P   Kyle Davies   
Cordero   KCR   P   Ryan Braun   
Baker   SEA   C   Rob Johnson   
Martinez   SEA   CF   Jeremy Reed   
Cruz   SEA   P   Cha Seung Baek   
Castro   OAK   P   Dan Meyer   
Ross   CHC   RF   Sam Fuld (?)   I've got Ross being RH, but Fuld is LH.
Duncan   CHC   P   Neal Cotts   
Scott   MIL   LF   Mel Stocker (?)   Birth years don't match up.
Shields   MIL   P   Zach Johnson   
Burke   HOU   CF   Yordany Ramirez   
Romero   HOU   P   Fernando Nieve (?)   Could be Moore, as well.
Moore   HOU   P   Chad Reineke (?)   Has no ML experience.
Kennedy   CIN   SS   Alex Gonzalez   
Escobar   CIN   C   Ryan Hanigan   
Abreu   CIN   C   Craig Tatum   
Aybar   CIN   P   Gary Majewski   
Paulino   CIN   P   Homer Bailey   
Speier   PIT   RF   Kevin Thompson   
Suzuki   PIT   RF   Steven Pearce   
Bennett   PIT   P   Ty Taubenheim (?)   Birth years don't match up.
Matsui   PIT   P   Yoslan Herrera (?)   
Vazquez   ARI   2B   Emilio Bonifacio   
Flores   ARI   P   Billy Buckner   
Ortiz   ARI   P   Emiliano Fruto   
Clark   COL   P   Matt Herges   
Weeks   COL   1B   Joe Koshansky (?)   I've got Weeks being RH, but Koshansky is LH.
Harris   COL   3B   Ian Stewart (?)   I've got Harris being RH, but Steward is LH.
Hall   COL   SS   Omar Quintanilla   
Buck   COL   CF   Cory Sullivan   
Howell   COL   RF   Seth Smith (?)   I've got Howell being RH, but Smith is LH.
Young   SDP   SS/3B/2B   Luis Rodriguez   
Soriano   LAD   OF   Jason Repko (?)   Soriano is listed as having no ML experience.
Weaver   LAD   P   Yhency Brazoban   
Ozuna   LAD   P   Greg Smith   
Olivo   LAD   P   Eric Stults   
Carroll   SFG   LF   Nate Schierholtz   
White   FA   2B/LF   Joe Thurston (?)   Could be Luis A. Gonzalez, but he's a RHB.
Blanco   FA   1B/3B   Howie Clark (?)   Experience is only listed as 2 years.
Wood   FA   3B   Abraham Nunez   

Sorry, couldn't get the formatting to work on phpBB.

duke776 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:33 pm

Thank you! was going to post the Cincy guys, but you beat me to it, but thanks for taking the time to do this.

lanceberkman · **Posted:** Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:43 pm

Nice job on the minor league greats!

ChiCubsFan4 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:54 pm

I thought Neal Cotts was already in this game. He was in the last one, why did they make him a Great in this game?

fuji49 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:23 pm

Thank you bgarrett7 for all of your research.

calislim · **Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:26 pm

good stuff

Title27GT · **Joined:** Sat May 03, 2008 6:45 pm **Posts:** 55

stevenjackson39 wrote:

But Kevin Millar was in last year's game.

He isn't part of the MLBPA, so there was some sort of exception in his case last year.

duke776 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:44 pm

Title27GT wrote:

stevenjackson39 wrote:

But Kevin Millar was in last year's game.

He isn't part of the MLBPA, so there was some sort of exception in his case last year.

But he wasn't in the game with his name last year...he was listed as Great Johnson.

Trich · **Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:51 pm

Bonds is also not part of the MLBPA.

bgarrett7 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:55 pm

Trich wrote:

Bonds is also not part of the MLBPA.

So are a lot of people, it's really not a big deal.

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