Is MLB better in 70,80's, 90's or 00's?

• Little Danny

  

  This is a spin off of the NBA thread. I read were a couple people thought baseball players today are better than in the other decades. After living to watch these era's, I must respecfully disagree. Honestly, I think the 70's and 80's were both better than today. Here is an all decade team of the 70's and 80's I have put together:
  
  70's
  C - Johnny Bench
  1B - Rod Carew
  2B - Joe Morgan
  3B - Mike Schmidt
  SS - Dave Concepcion
  LF - Willie Stargell
  CF - Bobby Murcer
  RF - Reggie Jackson
  Utility - Pete Rose
  
  RHP - Tom Seaver
  RHP - Jim Palmer
  RHP - Catfish Hunter
  RHP - Gaylord Perry
  LHP - Steve Carlton
  Relief - Rollie Fingers
  
  80's
  C-Gary Carter
  1B-Eddie Murray
  2B-Ryne Sandberg
  3B-Mike Schmidt
  SS-Ozzie Smith
  LF-Rickey Henderson
  CF-Dale Murphy
  RF-Dave Winfield
  DH-Paul Molitor
  
  SP
  Dwight Gooden
  Nolan Ryan
  Oral Hershisher
  Roger Clemens
  Bret Saberhagen
  
  RP (in no particular order)
  Goose Gossage
  Bruce Sutter
  Rollie Fingers
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Yes
• GoPens

  

  70's and 80's. Everyone had a shot. No Yankees, Red Sox, etc to bid against.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  50's and 60's
• enigmaax

  I don't know if it is just circumstance in that my major influences were around more and I was a kid, but I loved baseball in the 80s. At that time, I pretty much knew the roster for every team and could recite yearly and career stats for all the big names (and my lesser known favorite players). I also had/have great interest in anything about the 70s.
  
  I thought baseball was hitting a good stride in the 90s, too, right up until the strike. That pretty much killed it for me. I coached for about five years after that, but my interest in MLB dwindled.
  
  Live games are a nice novelty, but I've gone to more minor league games while traveling than anything else. I got into the Phillies run the year before last because I was working over there and actually got to go to both parts of their clinching game. Outside of that, I follow it everyday but can't really watch more than one or two innings (minus the White Sox Series run a few years ago). Just isn't the same anymore.
• ytownfootball

  

  Unfortunately I am jaded about baseball and the steroid issue. Tough to debate a decades prominence without steroids being mentioned at least for me.
• BigAppleBuckeye

  

  Nice list Little Danny ... I would probably make only one change:
  
  Dave Stewart, SP (4 straight seasons of 20+ wins 1987-90) over Saberhagen
  
  For the record, the 80s is when I began to love baseball. George Foster homered for the Mets in my first game, and I was hooked. Then in 1986 I went to 31 games, including the pennant-clincher, and the rest is history (unfortunately for me, that was as good as it got to be a Mets fan ) ...
• sleeper

  

  2000's due to 'roids.
• Sonofanump

  It was easily the best in the 60's.
  
  Give me Gibson, Koufax, Marichal and a dozen HOF OFers.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  sleeper wrote: 2000's due to 'roids.

  That's "raroids"
• darbypitcher22

  

  Each season in each decade has had its own stories and its own stretches of teams that were dominant... I think you have to look at each on individually
• Footwedge

  All I know for sure is that there was some really bad baseball in Cleveland for 35 years.
• cats gone wild

  enigmaax wrote: I don't know if it is just circumstance in that my major influences were around more and I was a kid, but I loved baseball in the 80s. At that time, I pretty much knew the roster for every team and could recite yearly and career stats for all the big names (and my lesser known favorite players). I also had/have great interest in anything about the 70s.
  
  I thought baseball was hitting a good stride in the 90s, too, right up until the strike. That pretty much killed it for me. I coached for about five years after that, but my interest in MLB dwindled.
  
  Live games are a nice novelty, but I've gone to more minor league games while traveling than anything else. I got into the Phillies run the year before last because I was working over there and actually got to go to both parts of their clinching game. Outside of that, I follow it everyday but can't really watch more than one or two innings (minus the White Sox Series run a few years ago). Just isn't the same anymore.

  First off, little danny great list. Enigmaax, I agree with your assessment. I loved the 80's easily over any decade.
  Strawberry, Gooden and the Mets I could watch every day and enjoy it.
• Citybuck

  I'll take the 70's and 80's any day. jmo