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Greatest Living Ballplayer?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by MankyJimy, Jul 24, 2014.

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With Jeter exiting, who is the hair apparent to take his place as greatest ballplayer?

Poll closed Jul 31, 2014.
  1. Miguel Cabrera

    6 vote(s)
    25.0%
  2. Mike Trout

    12 vote(s)
    50.0%
  3. Adrian Beltre

    1 vote(s)
    4.2%
  4. Troy Tulowinski

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  5. Andrew McCutchen

    2 vote(s)
    8.3%
  6. Robinson Cano

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  7. Albert Pujols

    2 vote(s)
    8.3%
  8. Jimmy Rollins

    9 vote(s)
    37.5%
  1. MankyJimy

    MankyJimy Active Member

    We are talking about active ballplayers
     
  2. NDJournalist

    NDJournalist Active Member

    Bonds.

    Also, fun fact: Derek Jeter was never, ever the best active player in baseball during his playing career.
     
  3. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Well, since he's living, I assume he's fairly active.
     
  4. MankyJimy

    MankyJimy Active Member

    Active: as in still playing professional baseball
     
  5. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    My top 5:

    1. Mays
    2. Bonds
    3. Hank Aaron
    4. Pete Rose
    5. Sandy Koufax
     
  6. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Oh shit. A Manky-NDJ throwdown is brewing!? We've been waiting for this moment for years. This has the potential to be the Ali-Frazier or Hogan-Flair of misguided sports takes.
     
  7. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Where does Ted Williams rank? His frozen head is still technically alive.
     
  8. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    best position player not have used PEDS over the last 2o years?
     
  9. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    Holy shit, I thought Koufax had been dead for years.
     
  10. MankyJimy

    MankyJimy Active Member

    Jeter never used steroids but if you want to make that comparison, add 30 points of batting average and 20 HRs a year to Jeter's totals and you'd have a pretty good estimate of what he'd have done if he cheated.
     
  11. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    How's that?
     
  12. NDJournalist

    NDJournalist Active Member

    Chipper Jones' career overlapped with almost all of Jeter's and Chipper was consistently better. He, like Jeter, was never suspected of using PEDs.
     
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