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continental drift
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Top 100 players of the decade
By Rob Neyer at ESPN.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?id=4740695 Horrible, horrible list. No Ryan Howard? No John Smoltz? Justin Morneau? Randy Johnson with 3 Cy Youngs at number 18 behind Bobby Abreu, Lance Berkman, Jim Edmunds (12?), and Scott Rolen (11?) JD Drew is obviously better than Mariano Rivera ![]() |
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Formerly Fausto Carmona
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Horrible list for so many reasons. Corey Koskie?
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You know that’s right
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LOL Morneau's is so much funnier because Mauer is at 40
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The People's Member
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Didn't read the list, but Corey Koskie is on it?
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You can't teach that
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Placido Polanco Hey, what's he doing here? Well, he's here because he's been a league-average hitter who's played distinctly better-than-average defense just about anywhere they've put him. WOW! Being Average makes you one of the 50 best of the decade? WOW! HORRIBLE LIST. Every 3rd guy has a "WHATS HE DOING HERE?" snippet. Like even the author knew it was stupid |
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Melvin Mora was #61...holy crap
I really dont want to comment on this because of my stance on the whole decade issue, but since Mora is pretty much done and all, I think its ok. Mora had 1 really good year in 2004 when he hit .340 with 104 RBI and 27 HRs, but he never even came close to hitting that in any season afterwards. He also had a .961 fielding % at 3B during his run at 3B with the Os which if anything is probably just around average, if not worse. Also, he was the only full time Os player on that list, though Tejada was on it but he only played with the Os for a couple years. Makes me sad. |
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LAKE SHOW HOES
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lol @ no Ryan Howard
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Ryan Howard's first full season was 2005, so some of the people on the list have at least 5 full years on him if we're going 2000-2009
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I'm all there is
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wow, just reading your posts makes me cringe. I'm not going to bother reading it
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Adminstigator
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Howard has done more in a few short years than Placido - for example.
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Adminstigator
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Awful list.
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I'm all there is
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ok I looked. wtf Eric Chavez @ 39 right in front of Joe Mauer.
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I'm Mr. White Christmas
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I got so excited to see Todd Helton I didn't read the rest of the list
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continental drift
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b/c 5 is better than 4
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Halladay at #9 surprises me, he's better than Beltran, Jones & Helton..... he should be at #6
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Former TPWW Royalty
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Quote:
List is horrible mostly because of the reasoning they gave for certain players over others. Last edited by Emperor Smeat; 12-15-2009 at 10:53 PM. |
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Mad
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Oh, it's only baseball
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