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As I woke up this morning, had some nice cold AJ I thought to myself.. “If I could build a lineup in backyard baseball today, I’d be unstoppable.” I would be the best coach to ever teach these kids. I could change their lives. I could bring them to the ship. I might be taking this a bit too serious but fuck it.

Batting First

Pete Wheeler- Petey is an absolute, under the radar stud. This kid can get the bat on the ball and go for extra bases if need be. If Pete can poke the ball into the gap he’s GONE. In the parker, 1-0. He might run like he has a hot, steamy one dripping down his leg but big deal. The kid can move. We need this kid on base and if not he’s fucking benched. Some people think that Pete has zero idea what he is doing on the field and I kind of agree. His baseball IQ might be extremely debatable but who cares, the boy can play. Peter’s speed is a huge asset in his out fielding ability. He covers a lot of ground and tracks down tons of fly balls.

Batting Second

Achmed Khan- This kid is just pure, raw talent. With the ability to get the bat on the ball if he sees the right pitch. Some may think it’s tough running with these giant headphones on his head, but not Achmed. That’s what makes this kid so special. Achmed has no problem taking the extra base while running but I solely think that it is because he can’t hear the coaches screaming at him to stop. I wonder what he’s listening too. We need Achmed batting second to put the bat on the ball and drive in Pete Wheeler. He kind of worries me though, I’m not going to lie. He kind of looks like a psychopath. He is the type of player we need on this team.

Batting Third

Pablo Sanchez- THE SECRET WEAPON. Need I say more? This kid is the best athlete of all time. Baseball field? Home-runs. Football field? Touchdowns. Soccer field? Goals. And I heard he makes a mean chili. This kid actually does it all. We need Mr. Weapon batting third because if he doesn’t put a hole in the fence from the laser beams coming off of his bat then we can use him on the base path. Pablo’s discipline at the plate plus his elite contact ability makes him a force to be wrecked with. I will be putting Pablo at short stop because he can get the a ground ball in a hurry and also has a great arm at first base. You can play this kid anywhere and he will destroy the competition. Rumer has it that Pablo Sanchez has been smoking cigarettes since he was 8 years old. When I grew up and my teachers asked me who I wanted to be like when I got older, I’d answer Pablo Sanchez. Next question.

Batting Fourth

THE KIESHA PHILLIPS- Absolute manic at the plate. Standing at 6 foot 8, 265 pounds, Kiesha is the Lebron James of backyard baseball. Get the fuck out of the way when Kiesha is coming down the first base line because she has no problem hit-sticking you off of the bag. The power that Kiesha presents at the plate is unheard of. Absolute raw power. She could sneeze on the ball and put it 400 feet. Some often check her birth certificate because she plays with 8 year olds and drives herself to the games. The spectators are often frightened by the screaming line drives that come off of her bat. Don’t let her size fool you, she can BOLT around the bases. I will be having Kiesha play first base because tough shit she isn’t playing anywhere else.

Batting Fifth

Mikey Thomas- Who actually might be one of the nicest people on the planet, with a weird obsession for rice pilaf. Mikey Thomas has been playing baseball ever since he was a young boy so his fundamentals are off the charts. Mikey is fat and can’t really run on the bases. So that is why we are batting him fifth for some clutch RBI’s and possibly a dinger or 2. With this big lefty in the line up it will shake up any defense. You cant even bench this kid because he cries and then his parents call me. I will be playing Mikey at third base because he can get in front of the ball, block it and hopefully throw a few people out.

Batting Sixth

Luanne Lui- This girl has wheels but her stuffed animal smells like shit. If Lulu can just get the bat on the ball, it is very likely for her to beat out any ground ball. She shows an extreme amount of heart and this is the type of girl you need on this squad. Lulu has been working on her bunting ability for a while and now she can bunt in her sleep. With her extreme bunting ability and speed, the infield will play close. If Ms. Lui recognizes this she will hit a missile down the third baseman’s throat. Luanne Lui is going to be our Ace of a pitcher this year. Her fireball is a pitch that not many people in the league can catch up to. With that pitch coming in at a whopping 95 MPH, she can also dip down to 80 MPH with her circle change up. What a player.

Batting Seventh

Ernie Steele- He might have the skinniest neck and most awkward proportions in the league but he is a great all around player. His ability to play any position in the field with ease is one of a kind. Growing up, Ernie’s family wanted him to play basketball but Ernie had a dream to play baseball. Batting at the number seven spot, Ernie is going to shock the opposing team because that deep in the lineup you usually don’t find someone with the skill set like Ernie. If I could change anything about him it would be the high-water pants that he wears. They just look ridiculous.

Batting Eighth

Tony Delvecchio- This kid is just OK but, every here and there he will do something incredible. He honestly might be the coolest video game character I have ever seen. He just looks like he wears denim jackets and always has a cigarette behind his ear. That’s really the only reason I’m putting him in the line up, because he’s the coolest person I have ever seen.

Batting Ninth

Jocinda Smith- Jocinda has went under the radar in the Backyard industry. But not to me. No way no how. She is one of the best athletes that this game has and no one even talks about her. I am batting Jocinda (MVP) Smith ninth because who is going to expect this SAVAGE to be batting last? No one. When she gets up and the other team isn’t too worried, they are going to throw her a meatball. BOOM. 350 foot ROPE over the left/center wall. And don’t forget her fielding ability. Gold Glove material.

And there you you have it. Coach Chris coming at you live with the lineup of the century. I got my New Balances on, short shorts and a whistle around my neck coaching the living fuck out of this team. Next stop, Disneyland.

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Buster Olney ranked his top 10 lineups the other day, with the Toronto Blue Jays coming in at the No. 1 spot. I'd go with the Jays at No. 1 as well.

Anyway, a couple readers asked me to rank the best lineups of all time, following up on my lists of best bullpens, best outfields and best infields.

When examining the best lineups for one season, we have to be mindful of adjusting for era. If we just considered runs scored, we'd get this list:

1. 1931 Yankees: 1067
2. 1936 Yankees: 1065
3. 1930 Yankees: 1062
4. 1950 Red Sox: 1027
5. 1999 Indians: 1009
6. 1930 Cardinals: 1004
7. 1932 Yankees: 1002
8. 1930 Cubs: 998
9. 1996 Mariners: 993
10. 1929 Cubs: 982

If we looked only at this list, we'd think all the best lineups played in the 1930s or the 1990s. Of course, that's a not the case. Those were the highest-scoring eras in modern major league history, when various factors -- ballparks, lively baseballs, steroids, small strike zones -- helped generate higher levels of offense. Plus, simply relying on runs scored doesn't factor in ballparks. It was easier to score runs in Fenway Park in 1950 or Coors Field in 1999 than Dodger Stadium in the 1960s or Petco Park today, so we want to consider that as well.

We could use OPS+, which factors in each team's ballpark as well as the overall run environment of that season. OPS+ isn't the best offensive measurement, however, since it actually undervalues on-base percentage and overvalues slugging percentage. So, let's rely wRC+ -- weighted Runs Created -- from FanGraphs, a better measurement than OPS+ that considers a team's offensive components and then adjusts for ballpark and era. This gives us a little better list, although it doesn't factor in a team's actual runs scored or clutch hitting and includes five Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig Yankees teams in the top 10. Which ... well, Ruth and Gehrig were pretty dominant. We also have to consider DH lineups versus non-DH lineups.

My top five lineups:

5. 1965 Cincinnati Reds (89-73): .273/.339/.439, 825 runs (5.1 per game), 122 wRC+

I like when something surprising shows up like this club. It's never remembered as a great lineup for several reasons: (1) They didn't win, finishing in fourth place in the NL; (2) Their big season came in the pitching-dominant 1960s, so their raw runs scored total isn't historically impressive; (3) It was kind of a one-year fluke as they traded Frank Robinson after the season and fell to fourth in the league in runs.

But consider: The Reds scored 117 runs more than the No. 2 NL team and 169 more than the average team. They hit .273 when the league hit .249 and led the NL in OBP, slugging, walks, doubles and triples, while ranking second in home runs. If we remove pitchers' hitting from the numbers, their wRC+ ranks tied for 13th all time -- and fourth highest since World War II.

The neat thing is all eight regulars produced an OPS+ above league average with seven of those at 115 or higher. And these were regulars: Six of them played 156-plus games. The lowest OPS belonged to Tommy Harper, who merely led the NL with 126 runs. Robinson (.296, 33 home runs) finished fourth in the NL in OPS and Deron Johnson (.287, 32 home runs) ranked ninth. Pete Rose hit .312/.386/.446 and scored 117 runs while Vada Pinson hit .305 and joined Rose in the 200-hit club. Heck, the lineup was good enough that future Hall of Famer Tony Perez couldn't even crack it on a regular basis.

The regular lineup: LF Harper, 2B Rose, CF Pinson, RF Robinson, 1B Gordy Coleman, 3B Johnson, C Johnny Edwards, SS Leo Cardenas

4. 2003 Boston Red Sox (95-67): .289/.360/.491, 961 runs (5.9 per game), 121 wRC+

There were no shortage of high-powered offenses during this era -- the 1995 Indians, the 1996 Mariners, the 1999 Indians, various Yankees teams -- but I'll take this group by a small margin. The 1999 Indians scored more runs, averaging 6.23 runs per game against a league average of 5.18; these Red Sox scored 5.93 runs per game against a league mark of 4.86. They scored 67 more than the No. 2 Blue Jays and 173 more than the league average.

Like the 1965 Reds, the Red Sox relied on a stable group of regulars: All nine regulars batted at least 500 times, including David Ortiz, who began the season backing up Jeremy Giambi at DH. Seven of the nine played at least 142 games, including catcher Jason Varitek. The Red Sox led the AL in average, OBP, slugging, doubles, hits and ranked second in home runs and triples. Six players hit at least 25 home runs -- the only team in history to do that. Manny Ramirez (1.014), Trot Nixon (.975), Ortiz (.961) and Bill Mueller (.938) ranked second, fourth, fifth and eighth in the AL in OPS and Mueller beat out Ramirez for the batting title, .326 to .325. Varitek, the No. 9 hitter, hit .273/.351/.512 with 25 home runs.

The regular lineup: CF Johnny Damon, 2B Todd Walker, SS Nomar Garciaparra, LF Ramirez, DH Ortiz, 1B Kevin Millar, 3B Mueller, C Varitek. (Oddly, the hitters with the two lowest OPS hit first and second most often. Gotta love Grady Little.)

3. 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers (105-49): .285/.366/.474, 955 runs (6.2 per game), 126 wRC+

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The best Brooklyn team scored 187 runs more than the No. 2 team, outhomered the No. 2 team by 32, hit 19 points above the league average and led the league in walks and steals as well.

How powerful was this lineup? Duke Snider was at the apex of his powers and led the NL in OPS, runs and slugging percentage while batting .336/.419/.627 with 42 home runs. Roy Campanella won MVP honors by hitting .312 with 41 home runs and a league-leading 142 RBIs. Jackie Robinson was second in OBP at .425 and Carl Furillo won the batting title with a .344 mark. Snider, Campanella, Furillo, Gil Hodges and Robinson all ranked in the top 10 in OPS. The lowest OBP among the regulars was third baseman Billy Cox’s .363 mark.

The regular lineup: 2B Junior Gilliam, SS Pee Wee Reese, CF Snider, LF Robinson, C Campanella, 1B Hodges, RF Furillo, 3B Cox

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2. 1927 New York Yankees (110-44): .307/.384/.488, 976 runs (6.3 per game), 135 wRC+

They topped my list of best outfields and they nearly get my best lineup as well. I could have picked from several Yankees teams of this era -- the 1927, 1931, 1930 and 1928 squads hold down four of the top five highest wRC+ totals since 1901 once you remove pitcher hitting, and the 1933 and 1928 clubs also rank in the top 10. That’s a testament to Ruth and Gehrig. The 1927 team, however, ranks first and earned the nickname Murderer’s Row with good reason.

Ruth hit .356/.486/.772 with 60 home runs, 137 walks and 165 RBIs. Gehrig hit .373/.474/.765 with 47 home runs and 173 RBIs. Earle Combs hit .356 with 36 doubles and 23 triples. Tony Lazzeri was the fourth Hall of Famer in the lineup and he hit .309 with 18 home runs -- which was good enough for third in the league behind his teammates. Yes, that’s how much Ruth and Gehrig towered over the league: The Yankees hit 158 home runs; the No. 2 team hit 56, fewer than Ruth himself.

So why aren’t they No. 1? Well, they did have a couple weak spots as shortstop Mark Koenig and third baseman Joe Dugan were both below-average hitters and the bench wasn’t all that productive. Plus, I like making a timeline adjustment: It was easier for the stars to dominate back then, so factoring in that and the lack of depth in the lineup puts this team at No. 2 on my list.

The regular lineup: CF Combs, SS Koenig, RF Ruth, 1B Gehrig, LF Bob Meusel, 2B Lazzeri, 3B Dugan, C Pat Collins

1. 1976 Cincinnati Reds (102-60): .280/.357/.424, 857 runs (5.3 per game), 130 wRC+

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Sure, compared to the '27 Yankees, the Reds’ raw numbers pale in comparison. But 1976 was a low-scoring season. The Reds averaged 5.29 runs per game in a league where the average was 3.98; the Yankees scored 6.30 against a league average of 4.92. The Reds were also the most well-rounded offensive team in history: They led the NL in every major stat: runs, average, OBP, slugging, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, walks and steals. Heck, they even led in strikeouts. They had power, speed and lineup depth, and given that 1976 was a tougher era than 1927, my nod goes to the Big Red Machine.

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Joe Morgan was the MVP and the league’s best hitter: His 1.020 OPS was more than 100 points higher than the No. 2 guy, Bill Madlock. He hit .320/.444/.576, pacing the circuit in both on-base and slugging, while adding 60 steals in 69 attempts. George Foster (.306/.364/.530), Pete Rose (.323/.404/.450) and Ken Griffey Sr. (.336/.401/.450) ranked fourth, fifth and seventh in the NL in OPS. The remarkable thing is they had the best-ever offense without Hall of Famers Johnny Bench (.234, 16 home runs) and Tony Perez (.260, 19 home runs) having big seasons. Strong years from Cesar Geronimo (.307/.382/.414) and Dave Concepcion (.281/.335/.401) helped make up the difference.

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Yes, it was no accident that five Reds started the All-Star Game and seven of the eight regulars were selected to the team. (Bench, Morgan, Concepcion and Geronimo also won Gold Gloves, although we were considering only offense here.) Like the 1927 Yankees, they capped off their season with a World Series sweep.

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The regular lineup: 3B Rose, RF Griffey, 2B Morgan, LF Foster, C Bench, 1B Perez, CF Geronimo, SS Concepcion