Greatest Living Players - Top 5

[bnorth]

Wade Boggs, Roger Clemens, and Barry Bonds would be my picks.

[perezfan]

Aaron
Mays
Bench
Griffey Jr.
Brett

[Scott Garner]

Okay, so it isn't 5. Let's call it top 10 in no particular order...
Aaron, Koufax, Bonds, Clemens, Randy Johnson, Seaver, Ryan, Griffey, Carlton, Mariano Rivera

BTW, I know that people will criticize my picking Ryan (personal bias).
Ryan absolutely dominated opposing hitters (7 no-hitters, 12 1-hitters, 5,714 strikeouts). He also left the ML setting (or tying) 52 MLB records.
I know from personal experience being a die-hard Angels fan, growing up in So Cal, that Ryan was unfortunate to spend the majority of his career playing for two teams (Angels & Astros) that just did not score any runs.
You can't win if your team doesn't score for you. Just sayin'...

[Mark]

No doubt in my mind that Mays and Aaron are the top 2. After that I'd say Seaver, Schmidt, and Maddux--but a case can be made for Koufax, and a couple of others. Trout? not quite yet. I leave out the players whose names have been associated with PED's.

[Forever Young]

Mays
Aaron
Ryan
Koufax
Seaver/schmidt tie


Bonds should be there but I will hold him back as the number 1 until living past greats are gone(pre steroid era). He is the most dominant player i have ever seen at any sport other than Michael Jordan. But right up there.

[oldjudge]

Mays
Aaron
Bonds
Henderson
Seaver

[darwinbulldog]

It won't be a popular list, but:

1) Barry Bonds
2) Roger Clemens
3) Willie Mays
4) Hank Aaron
5) Tom Seaver
6) Alex Rodriguez
7) Randy Johnson
8) Mike Schmidt
9) Greg Maddux
10) Bob Gibson

If we exclude pitchers, I'd give those five spots to Rickey Henderson, Joe Morgan, Albert Pujols, Johnny Bench, and Mike Trout.

[quinnsryche]

[QUOTE=Forever Young;1862321]Mays
Aaron
Ryan
Koufax
Seaver/schmidt tie


That's as good a list as I could come up with

[bigfanNY]

No Pitchers No Active players No order just those I think a top 5
Aaron
Bonds
Griffey Jr.
Mays
Arod

Pitchers
Seaver
Koufax
Clemens
Maddox
Rivera

[Fuddjcal]

Originally Posted by Mark

No doubt in my mind that Mays and Aaron are the top 2. After that I'd say Seaver, Schmidt, and Maddux--but a case can be made for Koufax, and a couple of others. Trout? not quite yet. I leave out the players whose names have been associated with PED's.

a case could be made for Koufax

Dominated with a sore arm and was the best pitcher of his generation. He is top 3, though we were supposed to exclude pitchers.

[71buc]

1. Mays
2. Aaron
3. Henderson
4. Griffey Jr.
5. Trout

[clydepepper]

IMO, some (ooops! make that a few) of you guys are WAY, WAY OFF!

I think Mays and Aaron are a cut above the rest.

...and I don't rank cheaters...but, that's just me and my bothersome standards.

[Mark17]

The most difficult and important position is catcher, and Bench was the best, ever. He has to be in the top 3.

[bigfanNY]

Whoa Bench is one of my favorite Baseball players but Yogi was better.

[Case12]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Okay, so it isn't 5. Let's call it top 10 in no particular order...
Aaron, Koufax, Bonds, Clemens, Randy Johnson, Seaver, Ryan, Griffey, Carlton, Mariano Rivera

BTW, I know that people will criticize my picking Ryan (personal bias).
Ryan absolutely dominated opposing hitters (7 no-hitters, 12 1-hitters, 5,714 strikeouts). He also left the ML setting (or tying) 52 MLB records.
I know from personal experience being a die-hard Angels fan when I was growing up in So Cal that Ryan was unfortunate to spend the majority of his career playing for two teams (Angels & Astros) that just did not score any runs. You can't win if your team doesn't score for you. Just sayin'...

I am right there with you on Ryan. He was a pitching machine. No one will ever touch his record. I would also put Maddox on the list.

[sflayank]

mays
aaron
koufax
seaver
ford

[ooo-ribay]

Harold Baines!

[Chris-Counts]

Mays
Aaron
Morgan
Schmidt
Henderson