ESPN's Top 100 MLB Players of All Time

ESPN just released their community effort of listing in order the 100 greatest baseball players in history. They currently have #75-100 along with 25 honorable mentions. I can update list once they complete it in a few days. The article can be found:

http://espn.go.com/mlb/feature/video/_/id/8652210/espn-hall-100-ranking-all-time-greatest-mlb-players

Top 100 Players

1.
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75.

76. Carlton Fisk
77. Paul Molitor
78. Mike Piazza
79. Robin Roberts
80. Charlie Gehringer
81. Duke Snider
82. Kid Nichols
83. Mark McGwire
84. Willie Stargell
85. Manny Ramirez
86. Gary Carter
87. Frankie Frisch
88. Cap Anson
89. Jim Palmer
90. Craig Biggio
91. Paul Waner
92. Roy Halladay
93. Tom Glavine
94. Jim Thome
95. Sammy Sosa
96. Tim Raines
97. Ron Santo
98. Joe Cronin
99. Al Simmons
100. Phil Niekro

Honorable Mentions

101. Luke Appling
102. Joe Jackson
103. Eddie Plank
104. Dave Winfield
105. Curt Schilling
106. Whitey Ford
107. Johnny Mize
108. Rafael Palmeiro
109. Don Sutton
110. Harry Heilmann
111. Pud Galvin
112. Ryne Sandberg
113. Bill Dickey
114. George Sisler
115. Tim Keefe
116. Dennis Eckersley
117. Sam Crawford
118. Lou Boudreau
119. Rube Waddell
120. Billy Williams
121. Ed Delahanty
122. Edgar Martinez
123. Don Drysdale
124. Arky Vaughan
125. Roy Campanella

 

We'll see where Jeter ends up. I am not sure that Jeter tops Appling yet. Also will see about Koufax. I think that they put Dimaggio 5th at CF in a show behind Mays, Cobb, Speaker and Mantle though Puckett was 9th (That was prime 9, not sure if its the same people).

Santo is pretty consistently ranked 6 or 7 at third base, so top 100 does make sense to me although my theory about there being few HOF third basemen is just that so many guys played there for a portion of their careers.

I have Fisk, Piazza and Carter near the very top of the catchers list all time (and all about equal) so it will be interesting to see if they go more with old timers in Cochrane, Dickey and Hartnett there. Vaughan is a top 40 player and Mize is a top 60 player.

 

Phil Niekro ahead of Whitey Ford?

 

Phil Niekro is on the list at all?

Is he even among the top 100 pitchers of all time?

 

With this being an ESPN list, I'm not counting out Harper, Strasburg and Trout.

 

Also, if Ruth isn't No. 1, throw the list away.

 

The "review" of each selection being done by Old Hoss Radbourn right now on Twitter is awesome.

 

Don't get me wrong; I find him funny. But Old Hoss Radbourn's feed basically is just a baseball-themed version of T. Herman Zweibel's columns for The Onion.

 

Shameless pageview whoring.
Pass.

 

I agree that Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasburg are better than all the guys listed so far.

 

Agreed.

Really enjoying it.

https://twitter.com/OldHossRadbourn

 

Loved this one: