All-time Baseball Movie Team

With Aaron Judge now joining the parade of injured Yankees, they now officially have an entire starting lineup (including a DH, starting pitcher and closer) on the DL.  And that lineup is pretty freakin' good too!

Anyway, every position player on the 40-man roster is now either on the active roster or DL.  And this is after moving two guys to the 60-day DL to make room for players who weren't already on it.  If someone else gets hurt, I don't know who's left.  Maybe they should look to Hollywood.

There are plenty of baseball movies out there.  Some are better than others.  Some featured actual Major Leaguers, either playing characters (Kevin Elster) or themselves (Ken Griffey, Jr., and Randy Johnson).  Sometimes even IN THE SAME MOVIE!  And those movies have given us enough fictional baseball players to form an All-Star team that's comparable with the Yankees' DL.

C: Crash Davis (Kevin Costner, Bull Durham) - Costner could easily be the pitcher here.  After all, he threw a perfect game at Yankee Stadium in For Love of the Game.  But I think Crash is deserving of finally getting that long-awaited Big League call-up.  So he gets the nod over Jake Taylor.

1B: Lou Collins (Timothy Busfield, Little Big League) - He's got the power.  If not for that crazy catch by Junior, Lou would've hit a homer off Randy Johnson to win the wild card game for the Twins.  So, basically, he'd be an instant upgrade over Greg Bird.

2B: Mickey Dominguez (Wilmer Valderrama, Summer Catch) - Second base is kind of a weak position in baseball movies.  The second baseman's either a non-character or used for the comic relief.  But somebody needs to bat ninth in the lineup.  Wilmer Valderamma's Domo it is.  He was in college playing in the Cape Cod League then, so he'd logically be in the Minors (or out of baseball) now.

SS: Pat Corning (Kevin Elster, Little Big League) - Bonus points for getting an actual Major League shortstop to play a fictional Major League shortstop.  I don't know why movie producers choose to either neglect the middle infielders or turn them into stereotypes (there's always hope for the next baseball movie!).  So, with very little competition, Elster gets the nod.  I'm willing to bet he could probably still play, too.

3B: Roger Dorn (Corbin Bernsen, Major League) - Other than Cerrano, is there any character in Major League better than Roger Dorn?  Sure, defense is optional for him, but the Yankees don't need him for his glove.  They need a guy who can hit the ball out of the park.  And you know Dorn would love playing in New York.

LF: Ben Williams (Matthew McConaughey, Angels In the Outfield) - Alright, alright, alright!  He's certainly done OK for himself since starring as an unknown in Angels In the Outfield.  I bet they wish they could team him with Mike Trout.  But it's the Yankees who need an outfielder.  Especially one with the star power of an Oscar winner.

CF: Willie Mays Hayes (Wesley Snipes, Major League) - No offense to Brett Gardner, but Willie Mays Hayes would be an upgrade both as a leadoff hitter and a center fielder.  And, yes, I'm talking about the Major League I Wesley Snipes version of Willie Mays Hayes, not the Major League II Omar Epps version who thought he was a power hitter.

RF: Pedro Cerrano (Dennis Haysbert, Major League) - Judge, Stanton, Cerrano.  Three power hitting right fielders who hit line drive outs harder than most people hit home runs.  With both Judge and Stanton out, Cerrano would slide naturally into both right field and the lineup.  And, he has something in common with another Yankees right fielder.  Like Dave Winfield, he hit a bird with a ball during a game.  I just hope Dennis Haysbert isn't too busy doing Allstate commercials right now.

DH: Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford, The Natural) - Talk about power hitters!  The veteran Hobbs is far to old to be playing the outfield at this point.  But he can still hit, which makes him a perfect DH option.  And just imagine how that lefty swing would play at Yankee Stadium.

P: Steve Nebraska (Brendan Fraser, The Scout) - If you've never seen The Scout, you aren't missing anything.  It's a terrible movie.  But Steve Nebraska was Shohei Ohtani before Shohei Ohtani.  In Game 1 of the World Series against the Cardinals, he threw an 81-pitch perfect game, striking out all 27 hitters on three pitches AND hit two solo homers in a 2-0 victory.  At Yankee Stadium!  I have no idea why they sent him back to Scranton after that!

Closer: Rick Vaughn (Charlie Sheen, Major League) - Really, could it be anyone else?  The Yankee bullpen is already stacked.  Wild Thing would just make it that much deeper.  And the bullpen door swinging open to the strains of "Wild Thing" brings back memories of "Enter Sandman" and the first unanimous Hall of Famer.