RBI - Athletics Arcade Roster

Name	Nicknames	Year	Bats	Pos	Avg.	HR
Rickey Henderson	Hendu	81/83	Right	OF	.319	9
Bert Campaneris	Mad Hits	68/70	Right	SS	.276	22
Reggie Jackson	Potatoes	1973	Left	OF	.294	32
Mark McGwire	Big Mac	None	Right	1B	.294	62
Jose Canseco	Cansco	None	Right	OF	.275	54
Sal Bando	Sally	69/73	Right	3B	.287	31
Gene Tenace	Tee-Neece!	1975	Right	C	.255	29
Dick Green	Darrell	63/69	Right	2B	.270	12

The Bench

Name	Nicknames	Year	Bats	Avg.	HR
Dwayne Murphy	Dale	1984	Left	.256	33
Joe Rudi	Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!	1972	Right	.302	19
Mickey Cochrane	Cock and Balls	34/32	Left	.320	23
Carney Lansford	None	83/84	Right	.308	14

The Staff

Name	Nicknames	Year	Throws	E.R.A
Vida Blue	None	1986	Left	3.27
Jim Hunter	Catfish	1973	Right	3.34
Rollie Fingers	None	1973	Right	1.91
Lefty Grove	None	1928	Left	2.57

Team Synopsis, by Greg Pines

The A's are a pretty average team in the Arcade League, their green uniforms are a nice break from the abundance of red and blue teams in R.B.I. They will give you about 5 or 6 solid innings in curved style, striaght pitch you might be in trouble, They got some big hitters in the middle of the lineup, if you get the other dudes on base enough you might have a chance to win.

Pitching

In straight style Violet Blue might get lit up like a candle, but in curved style his ball has plenty of movement to both sides of the plate to be effective for about 4 innnigs, maybe more if he is well rested. The Catfish is a lot like Violet, his ball moves pretty well, but he doesn't last long. You better use their curves wisely and try to save their arms, cause if you got Fingers and Grove on the bump with the game on the line, you will lose, they have no movement, and after they give up a couple of hits they get scared and start serving it up.

The Lineup

I don't like Ricky, walks and Stolen Bases don't mean shit in R.B.I. I've never used this player, I'm sure he's fast, but even faster is me calling time and inserting Dwayne Murphy in the 1 slot, left handed, power, good avg, hits like Kirk Gibson. No Brainer for me.
Campers will stay in the lineup, this is your typical Right handed 20 homer guy, has probably a B speed, in straight pitch might get you a token homer everygame, curved-style don't expect anything except infield flys and double plays.
Reggie is Good!
Sweet 62, the man who made this game must have known that Mark was going to hit 62 someday, he allready penciled in his stats. With the most Homers in both versions of R.B.I. he is the scraiest guy to pitch to. Anyting near the plate Mcguire hits very very far.
Canseco might not be valuable to a Big League team anymore, but he will always be in the lineup for me in R.B.I. at 54 homers he does not disappoint.
Sal Bando, 31 homers might get you some token homers, but usually his sister Sally shows up to the yard, with those numbers she might be nice to look at, but she can't hit worth shit.
Gene Tenace will occasionally hit a wall scraper, but he also has a sister name Gina and she can't hit either.
Dick Green, First thing you do is say Hell No, call time, sub in Cochrane, Micky gives you some solid production at the end of the lineup,(very important after Sally and Gina try to slap the ball around) left handed, good avg, and shows more power than the 23 jacks that are listed.

The Rest

Joe Rudi is like Rudy Ruddiger(or however you spell it) he might have his day in the sun eventually, but until then he is best just rooting for his teamates.
Carny Lansford, might pinch hit for my pitcher late in the game, but he doesn't ever get any hits, I don't like Carnys', nomads, circus folk, small hands, you know smell like cabbage.

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