Classic Teams

[bostongahden]

My motivating factor for taking on this roster project was simply that I was spoiled from my PC baseball playing days with MVP 2005 Baseball. The tremendous modders of this title created a classic teams mod and I wanted to bring this option to MLB 13. I am nostalgic when it comes to baseball and I started to look around in the vault to see if this was viable. I found a great base roster by homerun234 and then began downloading other rosters to round out some of the teams. I have only been making a few fistfuls of players as the credit for this project largely goes to the following roster makers: Jros22, pjsnell10, yanks61, whoisJSR, dansp888, JohnEKool, dallmanator1, biebig2010, captainphido, HIGH_ON_FIRE_420, stroehms, TwinsVikes61, drsublime, WWE_FAN_620, and spaceace08.

My CAPs are largely bench players and stances and deliveries may be off somewhat. I am not a great face maker, but I just tried to provide distinguishing features that would be recognizable. I didn’t use a ratings calculator for my CAPs. I just used Baseball Reference and Baseball Almanac websites to find players with comparable values and added my own insights. The ratings are not year specific either, especially for HOF players. For example, Carl Yastrzemski is rated at 99 but in 1978 that wouldn’t be accurate. Personally, I can live with that but they are certainly open for editing. Again, most of the players are not mine anyway. I’ve certainly gained a great deal of appreciation to those people that create players, develop ratings, and form rosters. Just the importing and exporting that I am doing alone is quite time consuming, but I am looking forward to giving something back as I’ve been the benefactor of some fine work from this community.

There are duplicate players as my intent is to use these mainly in postseason mode. I hope to have this completed by early to mid August depending on family commitments as I am a school teacher by trade and I’m off for the summer. Below is a list of the American League teams that I am creating. This is subject to change depending on player availability. I’ll post the National League teams here once I finish the entire American League. The AL East is done. Feedback is welcome and I hope you enjoy this effort once it is completed.

* August 21st Update - The project is finished! Teams listed below have been set and the name of the roster is:

CLASSIC TEAMS v1.0
My PSN handle - GREENMONSTER_37

Dec. 22nd > Re-rated teams offline link > http://www.sendspace.com/file/ilveib

I will be doing a version 2 extension with about 6 - 8 teams in mind for later in the fall, but for now, I'm just going to enjoy playing for a while. Thanks to all the roster makers listed above and I hope you enjoy these. I know I will. Peace!



AL East

Boston Red Sox (2004)
Boston Red Sox (2007) “AAA”
Boston Red Sox (1978) “AA”
New York Yankees (1961)
New York Yankees (1978) “AAA”
New York Yankees (1999) “AA”
Baltimore Orioles (1970)
Baltimore Orioles (1983) “AAA”
Toronto Blue Jays (1992)
Tampa Bay Rays (2008)

AL Central

Minnesota Twins (1987)
Minnesota Twins (1970) “AAA”
Kansas City Royals (1985)
Chicago White Sox (2005)
Chocago White Sox (1983) "AAA"
Cleveland Indians (1995)
Cleveland Indians (1954) "AAA"
Detroit Tigers (1968)
Detroit Tigers (1984) “AAA”

AL West

Anaheim Angels (2002)
Anaheim Angels (1986) "AAA"
Houston Astros (1986)
Houston Astros (1998) “AAA”
Seattle Mariners (1997)
Seattle Mariners (2001) "AAA"
Texas Rangers (1996)
Oakland A’s (1974)
Oakland A’s (1989) “AAA”


NL East >

Washington Nationals (1994)
Washington Nationals (1979) “AAA”
Atlanta Braves (1995)
Atlanta Braves (1957) “AAA”
Philadelphia Phillies (1980)
Philadelphia Phillies (2008) “AAA”
Miami Marlins (1997)
New York Mets (1986)
New York Mets (1969) “AAA”
New York Mets (1999) "AA"

NL Central

Cincinnati Reds (1975)
Cincinnati Reds (1990) “AAA”
Milwaukee Brewers (1982)
Chicago Cubs (2003)
Chicago Cubs (1984) “AAA”
Pittsburgh Pirates (1971)
Pittsburgh Pirates (1979) “AAA”
Pittsburgh Pirates (1990) “AA”
St. Louis Cardinals (1967)
St. Louis Cardinals (1982) “AAA”
St. Louis Cardinals (2004) "AA"

NL West

San Diego Padres (1984)
San Diego Padres (1998) ”AAA”
Colorado Rockies (1995)
Arizona Diamondbacks (2001)
Los Angeles Dodgers (1955)
Los Angeles Dodgers (1963) “AAA”
Los Angeles Dodgers (1978) “AA”
San Francisco Giants (1954)
San Francisco Giants (1962) “AAA”
San Francisco Giants (2012) “AA”

[pjsnell10]

Good luck on these, we tried doing this a couple of years ago, and lost steam when we were almost done.

[capa]

Looking forward to these. It is a huge undertaking. Hope you can get it done, but I know what it is like...eventually fatigue and monotony set in. Hope you stay the course...thanks for even attempting this!!

C

[JH823Opsport]

NL EAST
Atlanta Braves
MLB: 1995

Miami Marlins
MLB: 2003
AAA: 1997

New York Mets
MLB: 1986
AAA: 1969
AA: 2000

Philadelphia Phillies
MLB: 2008
AAA: 1980
AA: 1993

Washington Nationals (Montreal Expos)
MLB: 1994
AAA: 1981

NL CENTRAL
Chicago Cubs

Cincinnati Reds
MLB:
AAA: 1990
AA:

Milwaukee Brewers
MLB: 1982

Pittsburgh Pirates
MLB: 1979
AAA: 1960
AA: 1971

St. Louis Cardinals
MLB: 2011
AAA: 1982


NL WEST
Arizona Diamondbacks
MLB: 2001

Colorado Rockies
MLB: 2007
AAA: 1995

Los Angeles Dodgers
MLB: 1981

San Diego Padres
MLB: 1998
AAA: 1984

San Francisco Giants
MLB: 2012
AAA: 1989

[KCRoyals]

The 1980 Kansas City Royals and 1977 Royals were both better than the 1985 Royals.

Royals

[bostongahden]

I have vowed to finish these so no worries there, capa. pjsnell10, I kept MLB 12 all due to your terrific all time team efforts as I'm currently playing a season with the all time Red Sox with that title. I am playing every game. Thanks for the suggestions, JH8230 and KC, but again, it is all dependent on player availability with what's already out there.

[Billy...a_kid]

I LOVE THIS!

My question would be; why no love for the INCREDIBLE teams of early baseball? (which is usually the case)

The 1927 Yankees not appearing? There are many who would unquestionably refer to them as the best ever. Personally, I think 3 teams, the '27 NYY, '53 Brk and '75 Cin are the best team ever.

Did you know that the 27 MURDERER'S ROW team was put out by an incredibly good Phi. Athletics team for THREE STRAIGHT YEARS...1929-1931. They had 6 hall of famers on the team, I believe the 89 team had one.

I love what you are doing, but to go to the effort to put something like this together, then leave out teams like

1924 Was
1927 NYY
1929 A's
1934 StL
1946 Bos
1953 Brk
1954 Cle
(some other powerhouses, too, but you get the point)

just makes it an odd choice. Honestly, if you are going to make them, how could you have two boston teams with Manny and Big Papi and all, and not a single team with Williams, Doerr and 'the other' DiMaggio?

Go all out man...go for it!

[Billy...a_kid]

Plus, I absolutely agree about the '77 Royals, and they were the West Champs that year!