SP - Cy Young
SP - Walter Johnson
SP - Lefty Grove
SP - Roger Clemens
RP - Mariano Rivera
RP - Hoyt Wilhelm
C - Yogi Berra
1B - Lou Gehrig
2B - Eddie Collins
3B - Mike Schmidt
SS - Honus Wagner
LF - Barry Bonds
CF -Mays or Cobb depending on the day of the week
RF - Babe Ruth
I don’t think we can quantify greatness in any meaningful way beyond looking at the output of their careers. Josh Gibson, Satchell Paige, they may well be deserving but we cannot know; they have very brief recorded “major league” careers, and talent was not so centered in those leagues as it was in the NL and AL.
RP, C and 3B are the weakest positions most ripe for someone to take over the slots.
Disclaimer: I am cognizant that this is a matter of opinion and not true/false dichotomy, because greatest is a imprecise word we are not defining narrowly by which we could arrive at a total answer within the set parameters. It’s just fun.
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