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Originally Posted by jingram058
I'll go with 1) Sandy Koufax, 2) Johnny Bench, 3) Ichiro Suzuki as the 3 best living players.
Barry Bonds would be on the greatest living player list, maybe "the", but he cheated his way to home run stats, so he's out of the discussion.
Pete Rose, same as Barry. More hits than anyone, but he gambled when the rules very clearly say "no betting", so he's out also.
It's all subjective, as these discussions always are. My choices may not be yours. It is what it is. I'm not changing
my mind; you're not changing yours.
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I go Rickey. Bonds is clearly the best by any metric but I’m entitled to take steroids into account. Other than Bonds, none of the guys seem to really jump out. Wonder if some of that is because more of us saw these guys in real life and the mystique is a bit gone as compared to figures from the past.