Your Franchise Player(s)

NO!

 

Gotta go with Robbie Alomar for the Jays and couldn't agree more with you on Tim Raines.

 

He'll get more home runs, but he won't touch the other stuff. Pujols is great, but he's not Stan the Man.

 

I'm still not clear when Tim Raines became so forgotten and underrated.

 

Very true, Mizzou...incredibly overlooked.

 

I think the drugs (head-first slides) tarnished his image some.

I have a feeling I am wrong there, but I thought some player expained the reason why he slid head first was because he did not want to damage what was in his back pocket.

 

He only got 24.3 percent vote for the HOF last year. That's a travesty.

 

I believe Raines himself admitted that.

 

With Musial? Nope. Not even a single brain cell.

 

Pujols won't touch the hit totals (or 22 years), but home runs, average and RBI are within reach if he stays healthy and continues to produce throughout his career.

Of course, he has to get pitches to hit. Two plate appearances today against the Dodgers, two walks.

 

I'll say this, since I think it'll explain my selections a little better: I wasn't going for the best player the franchise has ever had, since clearly Alomar -- a sure Hall of Famer -- was a better player than either Delgado or Carter. I'm looking at who was the best player for the franchise.

Delgado played 12 years for the Jays (nine full), Alomar played five (two were abbreviated by the strike; and he arguably had even better seasons with Baltimore and Cleveland than he did in Toronto.) So I'm not saying that Delgado was a better player overall than Alomar; he wasn't. But as the Jays' "franchise player"? Oh yeah. Best ever in a Blue Jay uniform.

 

No, Dean's not even close. Check his record again.

And I won't disagree that Pujols is young, so maybe he doesn't deserve to be higher than Brock or Gibson yet. But I can't imagine a scenario in which he won't be fighting with Musial for that top spot when all is said and done.