5 Tool Player

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Here's my "Great 8" in no particular order:

Aaron
Mays
Mantle
Winfield
Honus
Charleston
Dihigo
"Pop" Lloyd

[mannybb24]

Cristobal Torriente

[Chris-Counts]

He's not in the Hall of Fame, but Minnie Minoso was a five tool player. Yes, he hit only hit 186 home runs, but he played half his games in spacious Comiskey Park. And when he retired, remarkably, he was the White Sox all-time home run leader ...

[Kawika]

It's a new decade. Time for Minnie Minoso to un-retire.

[Jim VB]

Minnie was also a 5 Decade player!

(7 if you count the St. Paul Saints!)

[Kawika]

This from Wikipedia:
"Saturnino Orestes Armas Miñoso Arrieta, commonly referred to as Minnie Miñoso (mean-YO-so, commonly pronounced minn-OH-so by media) (born November 29, 1925 in Havana, Cuba[1]), is a former star left fielder in Major League Baseball."
All this time I thought it was Min-OH-so. Sure enough, on the back of the Caramelo Deportivo, his name has a little thingie (a tilde, I believe) above the ene. Who knew?

[chris6net]

Hank Aaron always come to mind when I think of a 5 tool player. As big of a superstar as he was he is underated as a complete ballplayer.CN

[tedzan]

DITTO....to what Josh K said......
"I think you need to look at more than the total number of SBs when considering speed."

Therefore, I can only vouch for who I saw play. And, I saw Mickey Mantle play from 1951 - 1968.

He was a "6-tool" player.......

1..Tremendous hitting power

2..Hit for average

3..Great CLUTCH hitter (especially in World Series play)

4..great fielder

5..Great arm

6..Great speed......Mantle ran a 3.0 secs time to 1st base (fastest in the AL)....got many doubles
and triples due to his speed.

And, saved many an extra base hit (or even inside the park HR's) by catching up to long drives in
the old Yankee Stadium's 461 foot deep centerfield.

You had to see him play to really appreciate him.


TED Z