Top Ten MLB Players
Which Players Make The Top Ten?
A-Rod or Pujols?
Top 10 MLB Players
1. Albert Pujols might be the greatest right-handed hitter of all time, as his .337 career average suggests, and he played multiple positions before settling in at first base, and he is now one of the better defenders in the league (Gold Glove in 2006). He is a great athlete with a near picture perfect swing, who runs the bases well, and is widely considered the best MLB player today.
2. Alex Rodriguez will most likely break Barry Bonds’ career HR record, as he is currently at 583 career long balls and if it weren’t for Pujols, A-Rod would be considered the best hitter in baseball. Rodriguez lost the top spot after his steroid admission, but has been very consistent since his rookie 1996 season, when he was only 20 years old. A three time MVP and 12 time All Star, A-Rod still strikes fear in the opposition at the ripe age of 33.
3. Hanley Ramirez might be the best player in baseball because of the importance of his position and mashing ability. He scored 125 runs in consecutive seasons and amassed 212 hits at the age of 23 in 2007. Now only 26 years old, Ramirez is entering his prime and is only in his second season as the Marlins’ three hitter. He is widely considered to have the potential to become the best hitting shortstop of all time.
4. Joe Mauer is the best hitting catcher of all time, as his career .327 average suggests. He is a three time All Star, a winner of back-to-back Gold Gloves, and he won his first MVP award last season after missing the first month of the year. He will most likely have a better season in 2010, and just signed the fourth richest contract in MLB history. All is well for Joe Mauer.
5. Tim Lincecum has already won back-to-back Cy Young awards and he will only turn 26 years old in June. He is the ace of the Giants staff and has a career ERA of 2.90. He is averaging 226 IP the last two seasons and has averaged 263 Ks in the last two seasons. Tiny Tim is the best pitcher in baseball and his best might be yet to come.
6. Derek Jeter will turn 36 years old this June and is the oldest player on the list, but he still can get it done at a position where youth is typically the answer. Jeter’s resume is nearly impeccable and it goes something like this: Rookie of the Year in 1996, All Star Game and World Series MVP in 2000, 10 time All Star, four Gold Gloves, four Silver Sluggers, and Yankees team captain since 2003. He has finished second in the MVP race, and third twice, and he is still on top of his game with only 253 hits until 3,000.
7. Chase Utley has never won an MVP award but his teammates Ryan Howard and Jimmy Rollins have, making the Phillies lineup nearly impossible to escape. Utley is the best offensive second basemen since Ryne Sandberg, and has scored over 104 runs in four consecutive seasons, with his career high 131 in 2006. He will likely put together his fifth consecutive All Star appearance this season, and the Phillies hope he wins his second World Series title.
8. Ryan Braun is a total monster at the plate, averaging over 34 HR, 106 RBI, 174 H, and 99 R in his first three seasons. He had a career year last season with 203 hits, 113 runs, 114 RBI, 57 BB, and 20 SB, and it looks like the Hebrew Hammer is starting to figure things out. Ryan Braun is scary good and is the Kevin Durant of MLB, as both players have such great stats at such a young age.
9. Zack Greinke picked up his first career Cy Young award last season and finished with a remarkable 2.16 ERA in the hitter friendly American League. Greinke was responsible for 25% of the Royals victories last season and he was named to his first All Star team in 2010. He is considered one of the best pitchers in baseball and will only be 26 years old this season. Greinke has come a long way from when he left the game less than two years ago due to anxiety.
10. Felix Hernandez will enter his sixth season as a major leaguer and he is only 23 years old. He only has one All Star appearance, which was last year, but he also finished in second place for the Cy Young award last season. He should make more than a few more All Star games and has the potential to start this season’s gala. Hernandez has some of the game’s most electric stuff and much is expected from the M’s 23-year-old ace.
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A very well made, comprehensive list.
Minor typo: It’s not possible for Greinke to have made the 2010 All-Star team.
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As a Minnesota native, my bias says that Mauer is too low at 4th. I’d put him at 2nd, behind only Pujols. I think Ramirez is still behind Mauer as far as pure talent. And now that A-Rod has been outed as a juicer, he doesn’t deserve to be put ahead of the man who Cal Ripken said had the “best swing he’s ever seen.”
Pujols deserves the #1 spot, but Mauer should be right behind him. Wait a few more years and a few more battle titles for Joe and maybe he’ll start getting a little more respect outside of the Twin Cities. Yeah, Minnesota is no New York, but Mauer can outhit anyone on that squad and that’s a fact.
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I agree 100% with Atropos77. ’nuff said.
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if mauer is 4th, the morneau is 3rd.
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Lucky Dunkirk Reply:
October 3rd, 2010 at 10:34 pm
@branden, I completely agree
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derek jeters name should be nowhere near this list.
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Mark teixeira.
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derek jeter is the 6th best baseball player????? hes not even in the top 5 on his own team…..arod, tex, cc, mariano, and id rather take cano over jeter. hes prolly a better SS too.
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Mauer is the man, I agree. I think Tex would agree that Jeter is a better ball player than himself.
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Minus the late season slump (due to an injury, I might add), Justin Morneau was the the Twins’ MVP and the most important player on the team… and has been for several years, too.
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I miss 2 names…
Zack Greinke and Roy Halladay…
Greinke is just performing just as well as Lincecum… Keeping in mind he’s performing at one of the weakest teams in the MLB he puts up some sick numbers.
Roy Halladay has always been one of the top notch pitchers… He has more shutouts then any other active MLB-pitcher and just KNOWS how to pitch.
No single pitch is the same with lots of well chosen movement.
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1. Pujols
2. Mauer
3. A-rod
4. Miguel cabrera
5. Roy haladay
6. Ramirez
7. Chase utley
8. Ryan Howard
9. Lincecum
10. Texeria/ichiro
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A near perfect list, with the exception of Jeter’s inclusion.
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a great list. i’m impressed usually there are just clueless people. and for those complaining about jeter. get real. jeter has a chance to wind up with career numbers of 300 HRs, 600 doubles, 3500 hits, and a lifetime batting average over .310. no player in major league history has ever done that. jeter has a lifetime .313 with 20 home runs in 138 playoff games which means he excels against the elite pitching of playoffs where turkey pitchers rarely enter a game. it means he’s an all-star even when he is only facing elite pitching every game during playoffs. i can think of 10 hits or plays he did that won very key playoff games. several post seasons he is the reason the yankees did not get bounced out of the playoffs. nobody has more hits than him since he’s joined the league and only ichiro has more 200 hit seasons the last 10 years. people need to stop reading geeky defense stats as the only metric to measure jeter. he’s a good defensive shortstop (though not great) and he is easily, by far, the greatest offensive shortstop in the history of the game. in the end he will amass stats that steroid users never put up including sosa, bonds, big mac, a-rod. ruth, aaron, mays, williams, cobb, musial, hornsby…none of them got that 600, 300, 3500, .310 achievement and unless jeter gets hurt he will do it before he is done.
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DD Reply:
November 12th, 2010 at 12:06 am
@JJ Idiot, it says best baseball players of 2010. If we were going by your rules, then know who else would be on here? Manny, Vlad, Helton, Thome, should I keep going? Derek Jeter is nowhere near a top ten player in baseball, he is extremely overrated however. He wasn’t in the top ten at the beginning of 2010, and he isn’t even in the top 100 now at the end of the season.
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What about Jim Thome
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aramis ramirez is way better than all of them and he is not evan so good
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Hey, uhh Grienke wasn’t very good in 2010. He’s good but…
A-Rod should be out as a PED user, and good list except for one name.
Josh Hamilton.
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Where the hell is Roy Halladay? The best pitcher in baseball is not on this list? LOL.
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I submit that the greatest hitter label should go to those responsible for creating the most runs. That is: number of RBI’s + Runs – HR. If you take this total and divide by the number of at bats you get a ratio of how many at bats a player needed to be responsible for a run being scored. For example, the top all time is Ruth with 2174 Runs + 2204 RBI’s – 714 HR = 3664 divided by 8397 at bats = a ration of 2.29.
Using this formula, Gehrig is 2nd with a ratio of 2.36, then Williams with 2.47, then Foxx with 2.59, Greenberg 2.60, Dimagio 2.66, Cobb 2.80, Bonds 2.85, Hornsby 2.86, Simmons 2.89. This is the top ten.
Mays and Aaron come in tied at #25 with 3.33, Mantle #14 at 3.06.
Of today’s players, Pujols is first with 2.86, Manny at 2.92, and A-Rod at 2.97
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Top 15 Baseball Players of All-Time: http://www.worldsbiggests.com/2011/03/top-15-baseball-players-of-all-time.html
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1) Albert Pujols
Ichiro
2) Joe Mauer
3) Alex Rodriguez
4) Tulo
5) Tim Lincecum
6) Roy Halladay
7) Derek Jeter
9) Carlos Beltran
10) Mark Teixera
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Tim Lincecum is a great pitcher, but he should be lower than 5. Derek Jeter, Chase Utely and Ichiro are all better than him. I also think Roy Halladay should replace Felix Hernandez.
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