IBC

2008 age:

McCann- 24
Koshansky- 26
Loretta- 37
Betancourt- 26
Zimmerman- 24
Milledge- 23
Young- 25
Bradley- 30

26.875 is my average age for the 2008 year for my lineup. It's possible Hoffpaiur or Prado will start over Loretta as well which would reduce the age further. Noonan and Cardenas are in the farm system to be the heir apparent at 2nd base anyway. So that's 6 guys improving, 1 guy in his prime and 1 wily vet. I'll take it.

Why not:

Ichiro - 35
HanRam - 25
Dunn - 28
Thome - 38
Wright - 26
Posada - 37
Wells - 30
Iwamura - 29

Avg age is 31 on the dot. Some Vets that are obviously getting older, but can play some ball. Ichiro, Thome, Posada are the oldest cogs, and I don't really see Ichiro falling off that much.

I'm game:

1. Carl Crawford, 26
2. Troy Tulowitzki, 23
3. Aramis Ramirez, 29
4. David Ortiz, 32
5. Hunter Pence, 24
6. Hideki Matsui, 33
7. Geovany Soto, 25
8. Ian Kinsler, 25
9. Pitcher

Average Age: 27.1

The only 2 guys over 30 look like they should continue to produce. Ortiz's OPS has increased each of the last 6 seasons, including 2007 when he posted a career high of 1.066. Matsui's coming off a career high in HR and BB, and he's remained fairly consistent, so I don't see him dropping off before one of my young OF (Maxwell, Hairston, etc.) becomes an adequate replacement. Crawford, Kinsler, Tulowitzki, Pence and Soto give me an excellent young core at key defensive positions all between ages 23 and 26.

Jeff Keppinger - 28
Randy Winn - 34
Bill Hall - 28
Ken Griffey - 38
Mike Cameron - 35
Mike Jacobs - 27
Wladimir Balentien - 23
Ryan Doumit - 27
Mark Ellis - 31

Avg. = 30.11
Guess I could stand to get a little younger, but it's been worse, in 2006 my Opening Day (or maybe it happened midseason, don't entirely remember the transaction log, and maybe all these guys weren't on the team at the same time, but still whoa) lineup looked something like

RF - Luis Gonzalez - 39
CF - Ken Griffey - 37
DH - Frank Thomas - 38
C - Mike Piazza - 37
1B - Nomar Garciaparra - 33 (and we all know that's an old 33)
SS - Bobby Crosby - 25

That team also had Brad Radke (34 and in his final year) and Tom Glavine (39) in the rotation
with second third and left mostly being platoon filler 30 year old AAAA types. Now that was a lineup with no future.

I finally broke out the old transaction log, the left fielder wasn't a platoon of non descrepit AAAA guys, it was 36 year old Jeromy Burnitz

Wow, and the second baseman was Craig Counsell, ouch... (sorry for the triple post, but that was too funny not to include)

CF: Chris Denorfia - 27
LF: Norris Hopper/ Nate Schierholtz* - 28/23
SS: Jimmy Rollins** - 29
1B: Joey Votto* - 24
RF: Delmon Young - 22
3B: Joe Crede - 29
2B: Danny Richar*/ Maicer Izturis** - 24/27
.C: Ramon Castro - 31

For what it worth: 26.4

C Michael Barrett 31
1B Adam LaRoche 28
2B Alexi Casilla/Esteban German 23/30
3B Brandon Inge 31
SS Jhonny Peralta 26
LF Mark Teahan 26
CF Matt Kemp 24
RF Michael Cuddyer 29
DH Jose Guillen 32

AVG: 28.2

CF-Eric Byrnes-32
2B-Brandon Phillips-26
3B-Evan Longoria-22
LF-Jay Bruce-20
1B-Daric Barton-22
RF-Garret Anderson-35
SS-Chin-Lung HU-23
C-Mike Napoli-26
(DH) Ben Francisco-26

avg. 25.77

C Saltalamacchia 22.7
1B Kotchman 24.9
2B Hill 25.9
3B Tracy 27.7
SS Furcal 30.3
LF Hamilton 26.7
CF Jones 30.8
RF Kearns 27.7

Average 27.1

C- Mauer (24)
1B - Pujols (28)
2B - Cano (25)
SS - Jeter (33)
3B - A. Rodriguez (32)
LF - Alou (41)
CF - Sizemore (25)
RF - V. Wells (29)
DH - Sheffield (39)

Average age: 30.67

Sheff and Alou really bring the average age up, but we have replacements in the wings when there time is up, but right now they still rake and are more than welcome in the IBC Yanks lineup.

Yankees wrote:C- Mauer (24)
1B - Pujols (28)
2B - Cano (25)
SS - Jeter (33)
3B - A. Rodriguez (32)
LF - Alou (41)
CF - Sizemore (25)
RF - V. Wells (29)
DH - Sheffield (39)

Average age: 30.67

Sheff and Alou really bring the average age up, but we have replacements in the wings when there time is up, but right now they still rake and are more than welcome in the IBC Yanks lineup.

Pujols is (2*)

Is that in beast years?

C - Pierzynski [31]
1B - A. Gonzalez [25]
2B - Iguchi [33]
3B - Wood [22]
SS - Theriot [28]
LF - Willingham [28]
CF - Bourn/Gardner [25/24]
RF - Hart [25]
DH - Pearce [24]

Avg. Age = 26.5

2B Weeks - 25
C Martin - 25
CF Upton, BJ - 23
1B Teixeira - 27
RF Francoeur - 24
LF Upton, J - 20
3B Stewart - 22
SS Brignac - 22

23.5

Reggie Willits CF 27
Freddy Sanchez 2B 30
Paul Konerko 1B 32
Jason Bay RF 29 (Canadian Years)
Joe Dillon 3B 32
Kenji Johjima C 32
Ryan Spilborghs LF 28
Jack Wilson SS 30

Average Age: 30

Range: 27-32....so it's pretty close to a mean as well.

David Dejesus CF 28 years old
Kelly Johnson 2B 25 years old
Ryan Garko 1B 27 years old
JJ Hardy SS 25 years old
Josh Fields 3B 25 years old
Wily Mo Pena RF 26 years old
Ramon Hernandez C 31 years old
Shannon Stewart LF 33 years old

27.5 years old. Quite the turn around for the Cubbies.

Pedroia 24
Youk 29
Hafner 30
Scott 28
Buck 24
Laroche 24
Lowrie 24
Snyder 27
TBD (Dukes/Murphy) 24.5avg

Average age - 26.05 Youngest in the AL so far...

J.Towles - 23
J.Loney - 23
E.Patterson - 24
K.Kouzmanoff - 26
J.Bartlett - 28
A.Ethier - 25
J.Gathright - 26
A.Rios - 26
K.Morales - 24

Average Age: 25.0

Juan Pierre CF- 30
Jose Reyes SS- 24
Dan Uggla 2b- 27
Carlos Lee DH- 31
Xavier Nady 1b- 29
Jacques Jones LF- 32
Wilson Betemit 3b- 26
Josh Bard C- 29
Jason Tyner RF- 30


Avg. Age: 28.66

Tigers:

29 - Utley - 2B
28 - Holliday - LF
23 - Fielder - 1B
24 - Cabrera - 3B
24 - Hermida - RF
25 - S Drew - SS
24 - Gordon - DH
25 - Taveras - CF
31 - Ross - C

32 - J Drew - OF
33 - DeRosa - IF/OF
21 - McCutchen - OF

Avg age of the starting lineup: 25.9
Avg age w/o placeholder Ross: 25.3