Not sure I agree with the order. http://espn.go.com/mlb/feature/video/_/id/8652210/espn-hall-100-ranking-all-greatest-mlb-players
First off, I exclude ALL Deadball era players when making comparisons with "modern" post WW2/integration era players. To be honest, I barely consider players (in those comparisons) who didn't begin their careers at or around end of DeadBall Era. They just have to be left with their contemporaries for obvious reasons including a couple of overlooked factors: different rules and philosophy. IMO, the talking heads just have to let it go.....leave them in their own category. I stopped after Lou Boudreau...Halladay. One memorable season in a good career (Boudreau) doesn't make my all time great player list...same for Roy Halladay and his post season no hitter. He was a very good pitcher who was dominant for a couple seasons...nothing more,nothing less. I'll look at the rest of their list.
These things are like Grammy Awards, Miss Spunky Pop Bitch may have won the Grammy but I buy the records of my personal favorite Miss Get Down and Bop. I will agree on #1 though, Ruth was the man who put baseball back on track, established the Yankee Franchise, and when thinking Yankees the first player that come to mind.
I love me some Felix, but I have a hard time say that, if his career ended today, he's in the top 125 of baseball history. Of course I think he's on track to be a HoF'er, but if you asked me 20 years ago I would've said the same thing about Edgar. That said, shouldn't Jeter (and I'm by no means a fanboi of his, but you gotta respect the game) be higher than 31? At LEAST higher than Pujols and ARod, right?
Jeter at 31 Rose at 38 Seaver at 22 Gwynn at 63 Marichal at 71 Palmer at 90 And not in the top 100.... Catfish Hunter, Early Wynn, Ralph Kiner & Carl Hubbell Also not in the top 100 & loving it are..... David Ortiz & Curt Schilling.
Jeters statistical rankings has to put him in the top 20. Same with Rose. Gehrig is too low too. The Morgan ranking was comical. Where were bonds and Aaoron?
No offense Rick but, why the heck would you even consider bigmouth shitface Schilling on this list? By the way...did you hear the latest from Schilling? He said his chances for getting into the HOF were probably harmed because he is a Republican.
Saw that dork Schilling making those "republican" comments, almost threw a shoe through my big screen. I'm quite sure Ichiro will be found on that list eventually.
And Koufax at # 44 is a real joke. I mean in his last 4 years he went 97-27 with an ERA of 1.84 a whip of .0910 (not a mis-print) and 3 CYAs. Oh & did I mention that in his last 4 seasons he also had 89 complete games & 31 shutouts. Hell in his last season alone he went 27-9 with a 1.73 ERA, 27 complete games & a cy young. 44th place, really?
I think Tony Gwynn was shortchanged. He finished with the highest career BA .338 in the past 50 yrs, does have the 16th(tied) highest career BA .338 (3141 hits), and only two other players with higher BAs had more career hits, Cobb and Speaker. He walked almost twice as much as he struck out, played his position very well and stole over 300 bases for good measure. Actually, there's only a handful of players with higher career BAs who began their careers post deadball era and only TWO players with higher BAs who played into the 1960s, Ted Williams (barely) and Stan Musial!
Personally I think the entire list is full of shit....! No way can I live with half of these rankings. Joe DiMaggio not in the top 10. Stan Musial ranked way to low, Morgan would not even be in my top 100, sorry Morgan fans. I'd rather have Tommy Herr, or Ryne Sandberg. Jeter should be higher, but shit, this IMO is all hypothetical... anyone of us could probably make up a better top 100 list...!
