2610948, My version Posted by Call It Anything, Sun Jun-04-17 02:28 AM
I saw that you had made a team and then made one before I looked at yours so as not to be influenced:
C - Jorge Alfaro (Colombia) AAA Stud for the Phillies 1B - Joey Votto* (Canada) 2B - Jose Altuve (Venezuela) 3B - Adrian Beltre (Dominican Republic) SS - Andrelton Simmons (Curacao) LF - Yeonis Cespedes (Cuba) CF - Mike Trout (USA) RF - Max Kepler* (Germany) SP - Yu Darvish (Japan) RP - Seung-hwan Oh (South Korea)
Also considered Christian Bethancourt at catcher, Shin Soo Choo for RF, Roberto Osuna in relief, and a bunch of starters including Jaime Garcia and Marco Estrada.
Plenty of overlap in there. I think Votto, Altuve, Simmons, and Kepler are overwhelmingly representatives for their country relative to positional scarcity. Weighing players/positions from DR, Colombia, Cuba, Japan, and Korea is where it becomes an exercise in preference. And Mike Trout is like the free space in Bingo. I started with Kershaw in at SP just to be different but filling out the OF started getting more difficult. Similarly, I thought Puerto Rico would be a cop out.
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