"Greatest Living Ballplayer"

• killdeer

  

  periodically, when another baseball legend passes, baseball fans hearken back to the golden age of the game and wonder..."who is the reigning greatest living ballplayer?..."...and the honor is passed on to the next HOFer...
  
  Ted Williams held the title for quite a number of years until his timely demise and cryogenesis...
  
  my vote...
  1. Mays
  2. Musial
  3. Aaron...
  
  discuss...
• sleeper

  

  Albert Pujols.
• Automatik

  

  Mazeroski
• Tiger2003

  

  Hammerin' Hank: Batting Average .305, Hits 3771, HR 755, RBI 2,297
  
  The Say Hey Kid: Batting Average .302, Hits 3,283, HR 660 RBI 1,903
  
  Stan the Man: Batting Average .331 Hits 3,630, HR 475, RBI 1,951
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Votto, obvi
• Little Danny

  

  killdeer;773589 wrote:periodically, when another baseball legend passes, baseball fans hearken back to the golden age of the game and wonder..."who is the reigning greatest living ballplayer?..."...and the honor is passed on to the next HOFer...
  
  Ted Williams held the title for quite a number of years until his timely demise and cryogenesis...
  
  my vote...
  1. Mays
  2. Musial
  3. Aaron...
  
  discuss...

  
  These!
  
  I would put Johnny Bench and Pete Rose in the discussion as well.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Ty Cobb?
  Babe Ruth?
  Honus Wagner?
  Chris Sabo?
• The Boss

  

  Just as a plug for the younger guys:
  
  Pujols
  A-Rod
  Clemens
  Bonds
  Maddux
  Unit
  Schilling
  etc.
  
  Fall in love with old guys all you want but there are plenty of guys under 50 who could be considered.
• Azubuike24

  

  Overall game, the answer will be Willie Mays as long as he's living.
• Con_Alma

  Mays in my eyes.
  
  Speed, glove, arm, and hitting for power and average.
  
  ...all around player for a long time.
• se-alum

  

  The Boss;773823 wrote:Just as a plug for the younger guys:
  
  Pujols
  A-Rod
  Clemens
  Bonds
  Maddux
  Unit
  Schilling
  etc.
  
  Fall in love with old guys all you want but there are plenty of guys under 50 who could be considered.

  I would like to add Ken Griffey Jr. to the top of this list.
• Con_Alma

  The Boss;773823 wrote:...
  Fall in love with old guys all you want but there are plenty of guys under 50 who could be considered.

  We weren't asked who we would consider in order to get to our conclusion. We were asked the result of our consideration.
  
  Loving an old player just happened to play no part in my personal opinion.
• The Boss

  

  se-alum;773838 wrote:I would like to add Ken Griffey Jr. to the top of this list.

  
  Yeah, whatever, that's why etc. is at the bottom of the list. There is no 1, 2, 3--just names off the top of my head. I'm sure I left many good names out. You got one of them.
• Laley23

  

  Mays
  
  
  
  
  
  Musial
  Aaron
  Pujols
  Rose
  Bonds (would probably be #1, if not for the roids)
  
  
  Pitchers: Thats a whole other list, and you have to really take a look at the eras and parks the older guys played in. Clemens or Nolan Ryan would probably top my list (though I admit, Im not 100% sure who is still alive from the older days).
• Con_Alma

  Pujols
  A-Rod
  Clemens
  Bonds
  Maddux
  Unit
  Schilling
  
  This is a pretty good list and the addition of Griffey makes sense.
• Skyhook79

  

  The Boss;773823 wrote:Just as a plug for the younger guys:
  
  Pujols
  A-Rod
  Clemens
  Bonds
  Maddux
  Unit
  Schilling
  etc.
  
  Fall in love with old guys all you want but there are plenty of guys under 50 who could be considered.

  
  3 of those guys need * by their names and most likely will not be in the HOF.
• OneBuckeye

  

  ernest_t_bass;773659 wrote:Ty Cobb?
  Babe Ruth?
  Honus Wagner?
  Chris Sabo?

  You need to quit humping your new mac book and read the thread title.
• Skyhook79

  

  OneBuckeye;773862 wrote:You need to quit humping your new mac book and read the thread title.

  
  1 out of 4 ain't bad.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  OneBuckeye;773862 wrote:You need to quit humping your new mac book and read the thread title.

  
  lolfailpwn!
• BigAppleBuckeye

  

  My vote goes to Willie Mays, but my biased vote wants to at least add Tom Seaver into the discussion.
  
  Sandy Koufax and Frank Robinson should at least crack the top 10 or so.
• norwalk

  I believe Aaron even said Mays was the greatest he had ever seen.
  
  You could always do it by position.
  
  1b - Pujols
  2b - Morgan
  SS - Banks
  3b - Schmidt
  LF - Rose
  CF - Mays
  RF - Aaron
  P - Maddux
  RP - Rivera
• norwalk

  I guess I forgot catcher.......Bench
• BigAppleBuckeye

  

  norwalk;773901 wrote:You could always do it by position.
  
  P - Maddux

  I would argue that Seaver should be on this list over Maddux, but its close:
  
  MADDUX
  
  355 wins
  3.16 ERA
  3371 Ks
  4 Cy Young Awards (1 runner up)
  8 All Star Games
  
  SEAVER
  
  311 wins
  2.86 ERA
  3640 Ks
  3 Cy Young Awards (2 runner-up)
  12 All Star Games
• Laley23

  

  BigAppleBuckeye;773957 wrote:I would argue that Seaver should be on this list over Maddux, but its close:
  
  MADDUX
  
  355 wins
  3.16 ERA
  3371 Ks
  4 Cy Young Awards (1 runner up)
  8 All Star Games
  
  SEAVER
  
  311 wins
  2.86 ERA
  3640 Ks
  3 Cy Young Awards (2 runner-up)
  12 All Star Games

  
  You can discredit Clemens cause of the steroids stuff, but numbers wise, he can easily make the claim as #1.
  
  Clemens:
  354 Wins
  3.12 ERA (12 years with a sub 3 ERA and 2 years with a sub 2)
  4672 Ks
  7 Cy Young (1 runner up, 2 #3) and 1 MVP (1 #3)
  11 All Star Games
• Heretic

  

  BigAppleBuckeye;773866 wrote:My vote goes to Willie Mays, but my biased vote wants to at least add Tom Seaver into the discussion.
  
  Sandy Koufax and Frank Robinson should at least crack the top 10 or so.

  You know who you really want to pick. Aaron Fucking Heilman.