thephan wrote:phillychuck wrote:Koufax is 70, Johnson is 28.
Mantle has to be somewhere soon. Bonds steroids or not, Clemens, steroids or not, Mays, Williams, Ruth, Gehrig, Wanger, Paige, A-rod, Aaron, Nap Lajoie, Musial, Jeter, Bob and Josh Gibson...I'm missing a few.
A-rod > Jeter (79)? More importantly A-Rod > Michael Jack Schmidt? I think A-Rod must be outside the hot 100 mostly because I do not see him in the top 20.
ARod is clearly better than Jeter.
ARod and Schmidt are close, but Rodriguez played 380 more games (about 16% more than Schmidt), and thus accumulated large leads in just about every category - ~500 more each of runs and RBI, about 900 hits, 140 doubles, 150 homers, 150 SB (with fewer CS).
Schmidt's best season, and the best either of them ever had, was cut short by the strike, which hurts. If both their careers had started at age 24, Schmidt would be the clear choice, I think, but pre-24, Schmidt had a .690 OPS in 400 AB, and ARod had .914 OPS in 2500 AB.
Figure top 17 will include Bonds, Ruth, Aaron, Teddy Ballgame, Mays, Cobb, Wagner, Musial, Hornsby, Gehrig, Mantle, Pujols, Paige, Big Train, Gibson, Clemens, and maybe Kershaw or Big Unit?
