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20 year anniversary , hands down the most lethal team ever put together. so lethal they even left Pudge off .... PUDGE !!
Carlos Delgado was a 23-year-old budding Toronto Blue Jays catching prospect when San Juan Senadores manager Luis "Torito" Melendez made one of the most difficult decisions of the 1994-1995 Puerto Rico winter baseball season.
As Melendez sat down to add his reinforcements for the 1995 Caribbean Series team, he chose Delgado, his own team's catcher and MVP of that winter season, over Texas Rangers rising star Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/12263157/remembering-puerto-rico-1995-caribbean-series-dream-team
Puerto Rico's 1995 Batting Order
2B Roberto Alomar
DH Edgar Martínez
3B Carlos Baerga
C Carlos Delgado
LF Juan González
RF Rubén Sierra
CF Bernie Williams
1B Carmelo Martínez
SS Rey Sánchez
this when juan gonzalez was using rice and beans to hit 440 ft. home runs, when alomar and sanchez let nothing up the middle. when my man bernie williams was hittin hr's from both sides
Game 1 of the tournament pitted Puerto Rico against a 2-0 Dominican team, which featured Offerman, Mondesi and Todd Hollandsworth, not to mention a 23-year-old Pedro Martinez on the mound. The game turned out to be an absolute blowout; Puerto Rico won 16-0; Pedro lasted just four innings while Doug Brocail threw seven scoreless for Puerto Rico, allowing just three hits while striking out seven.
"I remember I think it was the sixth inning of that game and Carlos Perez was pitching relief for the Dominicans and we were already up 9-0 but Perez struck out Juan Gonzalez, and their pitchers were still taunting us," Nieves said. "Ruben, who played against me as a kid in the little leagues, said to me: 'This guy thinks he can keep throwing the changeup. Watch what I'm going to do.' And he smacked the ball to drive in two runs and off he went with his little dance that he did. The crowd went wild."
Jose Rijo, who had sported a 2.63 ERA over his previous seven seasons in the majors, started the final game of the series, which was the second faceoff between Puerto Rico and the Dominicans, but he could not stop a Puerto Rico team that finished with nine runs and 15 hits in the game.
Bernie Williams hit a double and two home runs (one from each side of the plate) and Gonzalez hit a home run 460 feet over the wall in center field.
team was incredible. debate me , no team in my life i've ever seen put together was better ... even one with Pedro
Carlos Delgado was a 23-year-old budding Toronto Blue Jays catching prospect when San Juan Senadores manager Luis "Torito" Melendez made one of the most difficult decisions of the 1994-1995 Puerto Rico winter baseball season.
As Melendez sat down to add his reinforcements for the 1995 Caribbean Series team, he chose Delgado, his own team's catcher and MVP of that winter season, over Texas Rangers rising star Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/12263157/remembering-puerto-rico-1995-caribbean-series-dream-team
Puerto Rico's 1995 Batting Order
2B Roberto Alomar
DH Edgar Martínez
3B Carlos Baerga
C Carlos Delgado
LF Juan González
RF Rubén Sierra
CF Bernie Williams
1B Carmelo Martínez
SS Rey Sánchez
this when juan gonzalez was using rice and beans to hit 440 ft. home runs, when alomar and sanchez let nothing up the middle. when my man bernie williams was hittin hr's from both sides
Game 1 of the tournament pitted Puerto Rico against a 2-0 Dominican team, which featured Offerman, Mondesi and Todd Hollandsworth, not to mention a 23-year-old Pedro Martinez on the mound. The game turned out to be an absolute blowout; Puerto Rico won 16-0; Pedro lasted just four innings while Doug Brocail threw seven scoreless for Puerto Rico, allowing just three hits while striking out seven.
"I remember I think it was the sixth inning of that game and Carlos Perez was pitching relief for the Dominicans and we were already up 9-0 but Perez struck out Juan Gonzalez, and their pitchers were still taunting us," Nieves said. "Ruben, who played against me as a kid in the little leagues, said to me: 'This guy thinks he can keep throwing the changeup. Watch what I'm going to do.' And he smacked the ball to drive in two runs and off he went with his little dance that he did. The crowd went wild."
Jose Rijo, who had sported a 2.63 ERA over his previous seven seasons in the majors, started the final game of the series, which was the second faceoff between Puerto Rico and the Dominicans, but he could not stop a Puerto Rico team that finished with nine runs and 15 hits in the game.
Bernie Williams hit a double and two home runs (one from each side of the plate) and Gonzalez hit a home run 460 feet over the wall in center field.
team was incredible. debate me , no team in my life i've ever seen put together was better ... even one with Pedro
