Greatest ss of all time

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Welcome to another edition of Top Ten! This week, the shortstops are on tap. Before we get to the players, below is some background on how we compiled the list. The Criteria. Outside of catcher, shortstop is probably the most important defensive position on the diamond.

Greatest ss of all time

Welcome to Bleacher Report's series of the 25 greatest players at each position in modern MLB history. Up first, the shortstop position. The first step in this exercise was to decide what "modern" means for the sake of this discussion, and we ultimately settled on everything from the season forward. That was the first year of the "Divisional Era" when each league expanded from 10 to 12 teams and those teams were split into two divisions. That gives us 54 years worth of players to consider for a spot in our rankings, but we didn't simply ignore what happened prior to Players were ranked throughout based on a combination of their overall body of work and their peak performance, with postseason success also taken into account. Honus Wagner 2. John Henry "Pop" Lloyd 3. George Davis 4. Bill Dahlen 5. Bobby Wallace 6. Jack Glasscock 7. Joe Tinker 8. Rabbit Maranville 9. Hughie Jennings

He would also rank higher if this list were based only on offense — likely in the top-five.

Earlier this week, Derek Jeter announced he will be retiring from baseball at the end of the season, his 20th, all of which have been spent with the New York Yankees. When an all-timer like Jeter says he's planning to call it quits, well, folks start putting things into all sorts of context. With that endeavor in mind, the task at hand is to rank the 10 best shortstops ever, which has been Jeter's position throughout his career. There are two ways to tackle this. We'll get to the second later, but the first approach is to evaluate the top 10 shortstops, purely as players.

Greatest Hitters in Baseball History. Careers That Ended Too Soon. The Top Current Baseball Players. All-Time Catchers. All-Time Greatest Pitchers. Starting Pitchers. Relief Pitchers.

Greatest ss of all time

Major League Baseball as we know it, that is two leagues American and National, playing by the same rules with the champion from each squaring off against the other for baseball supremacy was born in These rankings only consider seasons and careers from and after. The stats for each player only includes stats from after To be eligible offensive players have to have 1, career plate appearances, starting pitchers have to have 75 career starts, and relief pitchers need to have career innings pitched. This list is embarrassing without inclusion of Barry Larkin?

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Few players in baseball history have played with as much joy and charisma as Ozzie Smith, who would literally backflip on the astroturf at Busch Stadium in St. ARod left Seattle on a massive free agent contract in , joining the Rangers. Vizquel won 11 Gold Glove Awards, including nine consecutive, and was no slouch at the plate. Larkin was a great leader off the field, winning the Roberto Clemente Award in for his charitable work and the Lou Gehrig Award for his character and integrity in His total would be even higher had he not missed almost two seasons due to World War II. Lou Boudreau, nicknamed "Handsome Lou," spent 10 of his 15 seasons as a player-manager, beginning with the Cleveland Indians when he was just 24 years old. After the season, Cal finally called it quits at the age of 40 and 21 major league seasons. Even though he wasn't much of a threat with the bat—he's the rare player whose slugging percentage. You couldn't build a better shortstop at 6-foot-4 and pounds, and just seven seasons into his career, he's already made two All-Star teams, won a Gold Glove Award and was also the American League Rookie of the Year in Banks became a fixture at shortstop for the Cubs in and led the league in games played for six of the next seven seasons. Vizquel is one of just 29 players in MLB history to play in four different decades and the only shortstop to do so. All stats courtesy of Baseball Reference.

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That disqualifies them. He never hit more than six home runs in a season, yet he delivered one of the most memorable home runs in postseason history with his walk-off blast in Game 5 of the NLCS that was the first left-handed home run of the switch-hitter's career after more than 3, plate appearances. During the seven-year stretch from his breakout season in through the campaign, Tejada hit. Red Sox righty Giolito gets internal elbow brace. As such, we put a bit more emphasis on defense than we did at first and second base. Ernie Banks 2. Tulowitzki only played over games in a season once in his career, but finished in the top 10 in MVP voting in the National League three consecutive seasons, from to Rodriguez played two more seasons after his suspension and remained productive in when he hit 33 HRs and drove in 86, primarily as the DH. Had he played in another era, he might have hit more than home runs. Arizona Diamondbacks. We'll get to the second later, but the first approach is to evaluate the top 10 shortstops, purely as players. His final two seasons were redemptive for him to a certain extent as fans embraced the comeback. Joe Sewell