The Rob Deer All-Stars

Inspired by Carlos Pena's extraordinary season where he's got as many homeruns as singles, I decided to look and see how players this year are stacking up to the great Rob Deer. Deer is remembered (as I'm sure most of you know) as the king of the three true outcomes.  These are the strikeout, the walk, and the homerun. Generally, these are the scenarios on the baseball field that turn a team game into a one on one, mano y mano, matchup. Over the course of his career Deer struck out, walked, or homered in nearly half of his plate appearances (49.07% to be exact).Rather than just doing a list of who tops the list with the most 3TOs, I decided to make an All-Star team that fields both position players and pitchers.

Let's start with the sluggers:

Good to see Carlos made the team, but suprisingly he isn't a starter. We see that there are an astounding 5 position players on the team that exceeded Deer's career number. None, though, bested his best single season mark when in 1991 playing with the Tigers Deer managed to 3TO 53.62% of the time (25 HR, 89 BB, and 175 K in 539 PA).

Here are the pitchers:

A pretty impressive list. I'd wager that if you fielded this squad, you'd probably win more games than you lost. My two favorite types of players are the 3TO sluggers and uber-toolsy outfielders. Generally they don't coexist, but BJ Upton is trying his best to join the list this year. His problem, though, has been the lack of power. If I had broken the outfield positions down, I could have slid Mike Cameron in there at 41.63% and not missed a whole lot. He is, by the way, one of my all-time favorite players.

ETA: I realized I didn't have anyone who could pass at SS as the backup, so I added the best utility player (ZORILLA!).