Via Baseball Musings, a fun little challenge:

Come up with a 25 man roster from the past 25 years using the following rules:

Use each player only once.

Only pick one player from each year.

Respect the positions the players actually played (including set-up men, defensive replacements, etc.)

I did a bit of work on the hitters, but see what you come up with:

C 2005 Victor Martinez OPS+ 132

1B 2002 Jim Thome OPS+ 191

2B 2001 Roberto Alomar OPS+ 149

SS 1999 Omar Vizquel OPS+ 111

LF 1994 Albery Belle OPS+ 192

CF 2003 Milton Bradey OPS+ 151

RF 2000 Manny Ramirez OPS+ 185

DH 2006 Travis Hafner OPS+ 183

3B Uh, 1990 Brook Jacoby OPS+ 122 (but, whatever)

I'm pretty sure this destroys the Mets offense in the link, but I haven't added it all up.