One of the biggest days of the year in Cincinnati is one week away – Opening Day. Although that topic is a post in itself, the official start of the national pastime stimulates a lot of thoughts. Lester’s Legends inspired this post has he is in the early stages of posting his all-time teams for each MLB team.
As a lifelong Cincinnati Reds fan, I contend Reds teams of the 1970s, especially ’75 and ’76 are among the great MLB teams; therefore, players from this era would dominate an all-time Reds team. With that in mind, here’s my 25-man team of 13 batters and 12 pitchers outside of the Big Red Machine era.
1B – Ted Kluszewski
2B – Bid McPhee
SS – Barry Larkin
3B – Chris Sabo
C – Ernie Lombardi
OF – Frank Robinson
OF – Edd Roush
OF – Eric Davis
Bench – Ron Oester (MI), Heinie Groh (3B), Cy Seymour (OF), Vada Pinson (OF), Bubbles Hargrave (C)
SP – Jim Maloney
SP – Jose Rijo
SP – Mario Soto
SP – Bucky Walters
SP – Tom Seaver
P – Paul Derringer
P – Eppa Rixey
P – Noodles Hahn
P – Bob Purkey
RP – John Franco
RP – Rob Dibble
RP – Wayne Granger
Manager – Bill McKechnie
Tidbits
- The Reds have a strong history with middle infielders, and Brandon Phillips has the potential to be on this team.
- Reds history is least blessed at third base
- Baseball Reference the year-by-year lineup
- List of Reds Mangers
- Reds history
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