The fantasy baseball season piggybacks with that of the real season, and the folks at The Worldwide Leader have put together a poll that is quite the fantasy.
They give you a list of 35 pitchers, and you’re allowed to choose five to make up your “ideal starting rotation.” Some curious options include Tim Wakefield and Jeff Suppan. Maybe it’s a former Pirates thing. Jason Marquis was not made available, though.
Anyway, my choices were (with total voting percentage):
- Johan Santana (83.3%): Duh.
- Chris Carpenter (26.7%): See above.
- Roy Halladay (45.1%): I see Doc as more or less a Carpenter clone.
- Roy Oswalt (26.7%): This is another “duh” selection. The second-best N.L. pitcher and a mainstay of my fantasy rotations.
- Felix Hernandez (2.9%): It’s really surprising that so many poll-takers aren’t smitten with F-Hern’s rare combination of a high strikeout rate with extreme groundball tendencies.
