What if you were tasked with winning one — and only one — baseball game and you were responsible for putting together the lineup to get you that W?

Here’s the thing: You can only form the lineup from guys who have suited up for the Cubs, even if it was for only one game or part of one season. This isn’t a list of the greatest Cubs players. It’s the Ultimate Cubs Lineup to win one big game.

That means you can select Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown (who pitched for the Cubs from 1904-1912 and again in 1916) or Anthony Rizzo (who led the Cubs to end the 108-year World Series drought).

You can choose Hall of Famers, All-Stars, role players, whoever. You can prioritize power, contact, defense, intangibles or whatever you think is necessary to win this one imaginary game. You can even hit the pitcher 8th or anywhere you see fit in the lineup.

Since the Cubs are a National League team, we are forming the roster with no designated hitter. To add another wrinkle of strategy, you can select one reliever to come in after the starting pitcher and one player off the bench who could come into the game at any point.

So which 11 current or former Cubs would you choose to go to battle with in a must-win game?

Marquee Sports Network’s Mark DeRosa weighs in:

1. Alfonso Soriano – CF
2. Billy Williams – LF
3. Ernie Banks – SS
4. Sammy Sosa – RF
5. Anthony Rizzo – 1B
6. Ryne Sandberg – 2B
7. Aramis Ramírez – 3B
8. David Ross – C
9. Greg Maddux – P

RP: Kerry Wood

Utility: Mark DeRosa

DeRosa’s rationale

I’m going new school with leading off Soriano. He was my teammate both with the Cubs and the Texas Rangers and he fits that modern profile leading off a la Ronald Acuña Jr. and George Springer. He was a 40-40 guy and I don’t think he gets enough love. He’s going to drop bombs onto Waveland right out of the gate.

With Williams, I needed a lefty and a contact bat in the second spot. He had more than 2,700 career hits and a Hall of Famer. He was behind the cage for every BP I ever took at Wrigley Field before a game, giving me pointers.

When you win back-to-back MVPs like Banks (1958-59), he bats third. I know in today’s game, the 2-hole is the spot, but I’m staying old school with this. My best hitter is in my 3-spot.

Slammin’ Sammy Sosa — no doubt about it. There was a run there from ’98-02 where he was dropping north of 60 homers relentlessly and running out with the American flag. He’s got controversy surrounding him, but he’s batting fourth for me. This is a guy who did things I had never seen with Mark McGwire back in ’98.

In the 5-hole, I gotta get a little left-handed and I gotta have somebody from the 2016 World Series team that broke the curse. Derrek Lee, I apologize. My heart hurts. I wanted to go with you, but I needed a left-hander and I needed an Italian. So Rizzo backs up Sosa.

Next to Banks, Sandberg is the most famous Cub. Ten consecutive All-Star Games, he was the guy from 1984 on. When I was 10, 11, 12 years old — it was Don Mattingly, Cal Ripken and Ryne Sandberg.

I’m sorry Ron Santo, I absolutely love you. But I was there for two years in ’07 and ’08 and if you needed a ribbie or a big knock, Aramis Ramírez was the guy. I’m gonna let this lineup do its damage and any stragglers left on base, The Rammer’s gonna clean it up. Do yourself a favor and check out the back of his baseball card. This guy was an absolute killer in the biggest spots.

Gabby Hartnett was the Hall of Famer, I played with Geovany Soto who won the Rookie of the Year in 2008, but I’m going with the current manager. One game to play, I want the smartest man in the room behind the dish and I want to know that he’s putting down the right fingers. Chips on the line, I want D Ross. He’s my boy and I’m ride or dying with him for one game.

I think Maddux is a no-brainer. Maybe I’m a little biased because I played with him in Atlanta and saw peak Greg Maddux. I know he started his career with the Cubs and eventually came back after his time with the Braves. The Mad Dog wasn’t built on velocity, but man he could run it up there north of 90 mph and could make the thing dance. I could tell stories for hours about how he could set guys up in spring training and they would never see that pitch during the regular season. This was probably the smartest baseball player I ever played with.

Wood was not only one of the best teammates and people I’ve ever been around, but probably threw some of the most electrifying pitches that I ever played behind and I played behind some pretty darn good pitchers over the course of 16 years. This dude had a lightning bolt attached to his right arm. It was unbelievable to watch “Kid K.” I actually got to be teammates with him in Cleveland, too.

My outfield is a little weak defensively with Sosa, Soriano and Williams. You would think maybe a Jason Heyward for the late innings. Nope. One game to play, you need me on that wall. I’M the utility guy on this team. I’m the quasi-manager, I might coach third base, I have no ego. If the guys need a cup of coffee, if they need anything, I’m their guy to go get it. I’ll towel them off. I just want to be a part of watching these nine guys go to war and then maybe if a lefty comes in and you need a knock to right field or a defensive replacement, I’m your guy. Check out the two years in Chicago (2007-08) — north of an .800 OPS, so I can ride pine for this team.”

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