Here I Am

No idea who else would do this, but an analysis of this imperfect Immaculate Grid can be revealing.

The player knows next to nothing about the Colorado Rockies.  Jon Gray is on the Texas Rangers, who are in this year's World Series, and the player vaguely remembers seeing in Baseball Reference that Gray began his career with the Rockies.

The player doesn't know much about the Milwaukee Brewers, or more accurately, he knows more than the average fan about the 1969 Seattle Pilots.  Talbot played for the White Sox before joining the Pilots, Baney pitched for the Reds after the '69 season, and Brabender won 13 games in the Pilots' only season.  It can be safely assumed that the player has read Ball Four more than once.

Like he did with the Pilots and the Brewers, the player has resorted to choosing members of the Montreal Expos, the previous incarnation of the Washington Nationals.  Stoneman was the best pitcher on the Expos in the team's first two seasons, 1969-70.  But Alcala, briefly on the 1977 Expos, was never a star, or even an above-average pitcher.  The player liked to refer to him as Santo Claus, based on the extra-base hits liberally strewn across his 1976 Strat-O-Matic card, a season, it must be added, in which his win-loss record was 11-4.  (And, the player further adds, an ERA of 4.70, facts recalled without any need of reference materials.)  Alcala was frequently matched up against the other team's top pitcher, and while it can't be said that he "outdueled" the other man, he was the beneficiary of the '76 Reds high-powered offense.  And finally, Edwin Jackson is one of those "when in doubt" answers in IG, so the player has been playing this game long enough to have obtained some savvy about it.  See also:  Octavio Dotel, Mike Morgan, Matt Stairs, Darren Oliver, Tommy Davis.