RBI - Red Sox Arcade Roster

Name	Nicknames	Year	Bats	Pos	Avg.	HR
Rick Burleson	Burly!	1976	Right	SS	.291	7
Fred Lynn	Fredly	1979	Left	CF	.333	39
Ted Williams	Theodore	70/73	Left	RF	.403	43
Carl Yastrzemski	Yaz	1967	Left	CF	.326	44
Jimmie Foxx	Jamie	38/32	Right	1B	.349	58
Wade Boggs	WAB, Wabbit	None	Left	3B	.371	25
Carlton Fisk	Pudge	1977	Right	C	.315	26
Bobby Doerr	None	1945	Right	2B	.309	18

The Bench

Name	Nicknames	Year	Bats	Avg.	HR
Jim Rice	RBI	79/78	Right	.325	46
Dwight Evans	Silver Bullet	78/77	Right	.287	24
Tris Speaker	Speaker of da House	25/23	Left	.389	17
Joe Cronin	Mickey	32/40	Right	.318	24

The Staff

Name	Nicknames	Year	Throws	E.R.A
Luis Tiant	Andre the Tiant	1974	Right	2.92
Roger Clemens	Rocket	1986	Right	2.48
Cy Young	Cyrus	1905	Right	1.82
Dick Radatz	None	1964	Right	2.29

Team Synopsis, by Greg Pines

Boston has a very solid lineup, lots of leftys, and lots of power. Offensively they are just slightly behind the yanks. At first they were my number 2 ranked team in the Atari League, until I played numerous games with them and realized that SF is the number 2 ranked team. Boston's pitching is much weaker than the Giants staff, so Boston is the number 3 ranked team for me. Scoring runs should not be a problem with Boston, Keeping the other team from scoring might be tough. This team reminds me of Detroit in the Tengen league. They got the 3 lefties in the 2-3-4 spots, a good hitting team, with piss poor pitching.

Pitching

First of all on paper these pitchers look great. But they suck. Lets start with Luis Tiant, average fastball at best, no movement whatsoever, he throws barrel finders. Roger Clemens the toughest son bitch to hit on the NES, is a major disappointment in the Atari League. His fastball does not have the velocity that you would expect, and he doesn't have the good slider that he had on the NES. He is basically just another righty. Cy Young is the one bright spot on the staff, right handed, some movement, but he's a releiver so he can't pitch very long, Radatz like Tiant throws batting practice. You need to try to paint the corners with these guys, they don't have any pitches that are going to make any hitter look stupid.

The Lineup

Rick Burlson - this R.B.I. Legend must come out. Jim Rice is the man, he might not be very fast, but I waste no time in getting him in the game. Typical Rice we know and love, but now comes with 46 homers. Nothing better than a leadoff homerun.
Fred Lynn is a lefty that has a good avg(.333) and good power(39). He will hit second.
Another lefty, Ted Williams - .403 avg, 33 HR's, always makes solid contact and hits the ball hard. He doesn't lift the ball as much as I would like, but I think he knows what he's doing.
Yazstr has the coolest name in all of RBI, he hits bombs, and he always says "chicks dig the long ball"
Jimmy Foxxxxxxxx, this is a powerful right handed hitter, leave him in, usually deposits the ball off the screen to left center.
Boggs has improved his game from the Tengen version, he dropped some spots in the lineup, has better average, more homers, but still hits like the old Boggs. If he was a righty I would probably take him out.
Fisk stays in the lineup, unless he starts playing like a jackass then I take him out.
Sub in Tris Speaker in the 8 hole, lefty hitter with a good average, decent power.

The Rest

Evans and Cronin will be on the bench staying loose ready to hit for the pitcher, I can only stand to see those guys hit once a game.

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