My All-Time Baseball Team

This was not an easy thing to do. There are sooo many players that could have fit in just as easily as the one I have in there. Here are the players, along with the reasons I chose them:

Sandy Koufax: The best pitcher of all time in my opinion. No one had a lower ERA at any time from 1961-1966. His career was cut short due to a bum elbow.

Cy Young: All-time leader in wins and has the award for best pitcher named after him. Nuff said.

Bob Gibson: Dominance in 1964 World Series was the reason Major League Baseball lowered the mound.

Satchel Paige: Amazing in the Negro Leagues and even pitched a major league game at age 59.

Tom Seaver: Awesome career with the Mets included 300 wins, a World Series title, and 3 Cy Youngs.



Johnny Bench: Was the catcher that powered the Big Red Machine, the best team of the 70's. Won 2 World Series, 2 MVPs and 10 Gold Gloves.

Lou Gehrig: The Iron Horse batted cleanup for the amazing Yanks of the 20's and 30's. Won 2 MVPs and was a 7-time All-star. Also hit for an amazing .340 career batting average.

Pete Rose: All time leader in hits with over 4,000.

Mike Schmidt: Great thirdbaseman won 3 MVP awards. 12- time all-star and 10 gold gloves.

Cal Ripken, Jr: Had 400+ Homeruns, 3,000+ hits, 2 MVP awards, and a World Series ring.

Ted Williams: Probably the best natural hitter of all time, the last one to hit .400 in a season.

Willie Mays: Member of the 3,000 hit/600 homerun club and an awesome defender, too.

Roberto Clemente: Able to compile 3,000 hits and a World Series in a career shortened by a tragic plane crash.

Babe Ruth: No team is complete without the Bambino, who hit 714 homeruns and was another big part of the amazing Yankees of the 1920's and 30's.



Dennis Eckersley: Amazing reliever from Oakland won an MVP and made 6 All-star appearances.

"Goose" Gossage: Made 9 All-star appearances and is the Yankees career leader in ERA and hits allowed/9IP

Mariano Rivera: The person you think about when you think of closers. Truly a great pitcher and a future Hall Of Famer.


Song used: "Signs" by Creed

ANYONE WHO WANTS TO ARGUE ABOUT NOLAN RYAN PLEASE READ: A good chunk of my comments were coming from the logic that I "forgot" to put Ryan as a pitcher.
Yes, he is the all-time leader in strikeouts, but he had almost as many walks as he did strikeouts.
Yes, he had his number retired by 3 different teams, but that proves nothing except that he was on a lot of teams.
And what I think is the biggest thing is that you may say he is the best pitcher of 3 decades, but how come he NEVER, in his 26 year career, won a Cy Young award?
Now, please continue to bash away on my comments, but I think I've made my point.

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[yomamadontdanz]

Mike schmidt was great no question,i just think defence is under rated in baseball and yes schmidt was a great defensive 3rd baseman.But Brooks Robinson wasin the words of Casey Stengel "The best clutch hitter in baseball" from 1960 to 71.Look at his RBIs almost 1400,same as Schmidt or very close???His Rbis were mostly clutch Rbi's,6th inning all.Schmidt got alot of Rbis hitting 3 run dingers.How about this statistic,from 1958 to 1975 when Brooks Robinson was at third,his team won the most games

[gtownhoyas555]

i see

[yomamadontdanz]

Baseball you win with pitching and defence,give meBrooks Robinson at 3rd base and u can have Mike Schmidt.Brooks play at the hot corner is shut down 100%,nobody could bunt or hit the ball by him,and when you see what he did in the 1970 world series to the Big red machine he did this for 23 seasons.When you make a great defensive play it dosnt show up in the boxscore,but when you make an error it does.Brooks makes a great game saving defensive play so often the Team he played for won 90-100 game

[gtownhoyas555]

okay i agree that Brooks was the best defensive thirdbaseman ever to play the game but Mike Schmidt was no slouch, he did win 10 Gold Glove awards at that position and had a bigger bat

[cucumberinmypants]

Baseballs all time worst hair team would include Oscar Gamble,Bud Selig,Joe Pepitione,Mark Fidrych,Joe Sparma,Jack Aker,Tony Solaita,Lonnie Smith,Alan Wiggins,Sid Bream and Denny Neagle.

[cucumberinmypants]

Baseballs all time faggott team would also have to include Brady Anderson,Alan Wiggins,Ed Stroud,Wally Joyner,Lenny Dykstra,Johnny Damon,George Theoedore,Rich Folkers,Gene tenace,Mickey Rivers,Gates Brown,Ron LeFlore,Chico Salmon,Pepper Martin,Dick Drago,Don Stanhouse,Denny mcLain,Billy Baldwin,Paul Dade,Willie Mays Aikins,Vida Blue,Bert Blyleven,Jody Davis,Glen Hubbard and the biggest faggott in Baseball history Dave King Kong Kingman who once sang as a backup with the original Village people!

[007mugabi]

You pick a tough team,but I gotta have Brooks at third,and Koufax on the mound.

[Sugalean]

The All Time winning-est pitcher is not on team in Walter Johnson? May want to re-think that one.

[XYZBFD53]

Great Team! 

[bondsly]

Continued Extras SS. Orlando Ramirez .189 3B.Milton Ramirez .184 LF. Pat Seery .224CF.Jimmy Rosario .216 RF. Ted Savage .233 C. Bobby Ramos .190

[bondsly]

OK If theres a best team there has to be and alltime loser team i just had to do it here are there lifetime averages.2b.Mario Mendoza .215 SS.Rudi Meoli .212

LF.Larry Stahl .232 3B.Roy Staiger.228 C.Luis Pujols .193 DH.Rodney Scott .236 CF.Vic Harris .217 RF.Jim Gosger.226 1B.Luis Marquez .182 Starting Pitchers Roger Craig 74-98 ,Long Tom Hughes 132-173 ,Al Jackson 67-99,Ben Cantwell 76-108 P.Milt Gaston 97-164 reliever Rick Honeycutt 107-142 Setup man Jay Hook 29-62 Closer Paul LaPalme 24-45

[bondsly]

Continued John Beckwith 102 rbi's Joe Dimaggio LF. & CF. 339 avg 34 hr's 138 rbi's CF.Stan Musial .348 avg 29 hr's 100 rbi's RF.Chuck Klein .351 avg 31 hr's 119 rbi's I know its not easy to get all of the greatest players there are just to many including the great negro league players but this is the best batting averages and homeruns and pitchers eras that i could find for position and backup for their best years they played.

[bondsly]

Continued LF.Turkey Stearnes .362 avg 36 hr's 126 rbi's Starting pitchers Walter Johnson 27 wins 13 loses 1.42 ERA Three Finger Brown 23 wins 9 loses 1.65 ERA

Ed Walsh 24 wins 16 loses 1.71 ERA Addie Joss 20 wins 11 loses 1.74 ERA Christy Mathewson 29 wins 11 loses 1.76 ERA Reliver Hilton Smith 20 wins 7 loses 1.76 ERA Set up man Hoyt Wilhelm 8 wins 7 Loses 1.88 ERA Closer Goose Gossage 7 wins 6 loses 1.79 ERA Bench 1B.Mule Suttles .366 avg 35 hr's 109 rbi's 3B.John Beckwith .387 avg 34 hr's

[bondsly]

Good alltime team cool song.My team would be made up of Major league and Negro league alltime stars based on there stats for best years.Starting lineup SS. Willie Wells .354 avg 32 hr's 95 rbl's 2B.Rogers Hornsby .397 avg 29 hr's 120 rbi's DH.Babe Ruth .375 avg 50 hr's 148 rbi's 1B. Lou Gehrig .362 avg 42 hr's 164 rbi's 3B.Jimmie Foxx .352 avg 43 hr's 139 rbi's CF.Oscar Charleston .391 avg 32 hr's 125 rbi's C.Josh Gibson .381 avg 34 hr's 119 rbi's RF.Ted Williams.365 avg 35 hr's 119 rbi's

[Rabidburt]

Hard to argue.  Freakin' great squad. . .

[WeLoveTswizzle13]

WHAT ARE YOU THINKING MIKE SCHMIT OVER BROOKS ROBINSON, PETE ROSE OVER JACKIE ROBINSON, AND CAL RIPKEN JR OVER HONUS WAGNER. AND WHERE IS TY COBB IN THIS LIST HES ONE OF THE GREATEST PLAYERS OF ALL TIME. AND CLEMENT OVER MICKEY MANTLE. PLUS SATCHEL PAIGE WAS THE BEST PITCHER OF ALL TIME. IT SHOULD GO

1. SATCHEL PAIGE

2. CY YOUNG

3. WALTER JOHNSON

4. SANDY KOUFAX

5. NOLAN RYAN