Sick Gambler must have been in tears...

Great story on "Outside the Lines" tonight about the 1994 Montreal Expos. Great points by the writer mentioning that Cliff Floyd was still a developing player, imagine that. What a loaded team that was, huge shame they didn't get a chance to prove themselves in the playoffs that year.

that was one helluva a team.....anyone have the roster laying around?

I will look it up tomorrow...

Complete Roster

# Pitchers Height Weight Throws Bats Date Of Birth
38 Denis Boucher 6-01 195 Left Right 03-07-1968
48 Joey Eischen 6-01 190 Left Left 05-25-1970
13 Jeff Fassero 6-01 195 Left Left 01-05-1963
41 Heath Haynes 6-00 175 Right Right 11-30-1968
20 Rod Henderson 6-04 195 Right Right 03-11-1971
27 Butch Henry 6-01 205 Left Left 10-07-1968
34 Gil Heredia 6-01 190 Right Right 10-26-1965
44 Ken Hill 6-02 175 Right Right 12-14-1965
35 Brian Looney 5-10 180 Left Left 09-26-1969
37, 45 Pedro Martínez 5-11 180 Right Right 10-25-1971
51 Mel Rojas 5-11 185 Right Right 12-10-1966
42 Kirk Rueter 6-03 195 Left Left 12-01-1970
54 Tim Scott 6-02 205 Right Right 11-16-1966
31 Jeff Shaw 6-02 200 Right Right 07-07-1966
57 John Wetteland 6-02 195 Right Right 08-21-1966
47 Gabe White 6-02 200 Left Left 11-20-1971
# Catchers Height Weight Throws Bats Date Of Birth
24 Darrin Fletcher 6-01 199 Right Left 10-03-1966
2 Tim Spehr 6-02 200 Right Right 07-02-1966
25 Lenny Webster 5-09 191 Right Right 02-10-1965
# Infielders Height Weight Throws Bats Date Of Birth
23 Juan Bell 5-11 176 Right Right 03-29-1968
15 Freddie Benavides 6-02 180 Right Right 04-07-1966
5 Sean Berry 5-11 210 Right Right 03-22-1966
12 Wil Cordero 6-02 190 Right Right 10-03-1971
30 Cliff Floyd 6-04 230 Right Left 12-05-1972
4 Jeff Gardner 5-11 165 Right Left 02-04-1964
3 Mike Lansing 6-00 180 Right Right 04-03-1968
39 Randy Milligan 6-01 228 Right Right 11-27-1961
# Outfielders Height Weight Throws Bats Date Of Birth
18 Moises Alou 6-03 190 Right Right 07-03-1966
7 Lou Frazier 6-02 175 Right Both 01-26-1965
9 Marquis Grissom 5-11 190 Right Right 04-17-1967
33 Larry Walker 6-03 215 Right Left 12-01-1966
22 Rondell White


wil.

alot of arms

My mistake, he said Rondell White not Cliff Floyd was still developing. Here was one of their lineups:

Grissom cf
Floyd 1b
Alou lf
Walker rf
Fletcher c
Lansing 2b
Cordero ss
Berry 3b
Hill p

The rotation was Hill, Pedro, Fassero, Reuter, and Henry. The pen had Rojas who was almost as good as any closer, but they had Wetteland to pitch the ninth. If they led after 6 the game was almost certain to be over. A great team with great chemistry of guys mostly in their prime. The next year after the strike ended their ace Hill and stopper Wetteland were gone, so was Grissom and Walker.

I still remember it like it was yesterday, that team made me a TON of money in May and June when the betting world still hadn't caught onto how good they were. I still remember they would play cellar dwellers and only be -140 favorites at home with Fassero or Martinez on the mound.

I feel sorry for Sick Gambler.

fassero was damn good back then, Ken Hill too...looking back , the lineup doesn't seem as impressive as it was either, especially after Larry Walker.

tell me about it, billy boy. I will never forget those days.. It was the most memorable year for me by far. We ended up 74-40, best record in baseball and were blowing away every team if you look back at the scores. We were drawing 35,000 plus every night and the city was buzzing.. Then when the strike occured, it was the beginning of the end of baseball here. We had to let go all our stars and then the team never had a chance again. If there was no strike that year, who knows what could have happened today. We probably still would have had all our star players had we won the world series and baseball today would be strong here in Montreal.. That strike killed not only my dream of ever winning a world series here, but also killed baseball for good.

I still think of how my life could have changed had baseball never striked that year. I have never gotten over this..