Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:47 am Posts: 46000 Location: Reasonville
this should be an interesting one. i was having this argument with cousins over where chipper jones ranks and i said top 10 easily but they disagreed until they couldn't think of more then 4 legitimately third basemen.
Jones is easily in the top 10. Third base is incredibly underrepresented by great players, though. Brooks was probably the best defensive player, but he couldn't hit for a sack of shit. He's basically a less extreme version of Ozzie Smith, in that he wouldn't be close to a Hall of Famer based solely on his offense. As it stands, and I don't know whether his defense was overrated, but I don't see any argument that can be made that Ron Santo was not a better player than Brooks Robinson. Putting those two guys together just baffles the mind at how Robinson is considered an inner circle HOFer while peg legs is still waiting thirty some odd years later.
As for the best ever, it's either Mike Schmidt or Eddie Mathews. George Brett could be argued for, but you won't convince me with it.
Joined: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:47 pm Posts: 9282 Location: Atlanta Gender: Male
pearljamminagain wrote:
Terry Pendleton.
Well, he was my favorite player growing up.
well for 1991 anyway!
love TP.
I bought a new glove yesterday because I finally retired my old one and all of a sudden I was 11 or 12 again heart pounding my new glove screaming BEAT LA!
TP should have a World Championship ring for that year unfortunately......
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 12:14 am Posts: 8662 Location: IL
Electromatic wrote:
pearljamminagain wrote:
Terry Pendleton.
Well, he was my favorite player growing up.
well for 1991 anyway!
love TP.
I bought a new glove yesterday because I finally retired my old one and all of a sudden I was 11 or 12 again heart pounding my new glove screaming BEAT LA!
TP should have a World Championship ring for that year unfortunately......
I loved him as a Bird, but his best couple years were definitely with the Braves.
_________________ “You’re good kids, stay together. Trust each other and be good teammates to one another. I believe there is a championship in this room.”
-Ernie Accorsi in his final address to the NY Giants locker room before retiring as GM in January of 2007
maybe if the season ended at the all star break....
_________________ “You’re good kids, stay together. Trust each other and be good teammates to one another. I believe there is a championship in this room.”
-Ernie Accorsi in his final address to the NY Giants locker room before retiring as GM in January of 2007
Gotta be Arod. Unless people want to call him a shortstop.
ARod is already going to go down as one of the top 3, probably #1 best shortstop ever. He isn't really a 3rd baseman. Just like Cal is now remembered as a SS. And lotsa other guys who switched positions.
_________________ "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." -- John Steinbeck
Gotta be Arod. Unless people want to call him a shortstop.
he'll probably be back at SS next year for some other team - where he'll cement his rep as the best SS of all time.
_________________ “You’re good kids, stay together. Trust each other and be good teammates to one another. I believe there is a championship in this room.”
-Ernie Accorsi in his final address to the NY Giants locker room before retiring as GM in January of 2007
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