gotta be top five of all time.

He plays all the positions — he has at least 10 games at every position but pitcher and catcher — and he seems to play them all credibly. He can run (he has stolen 71 bases in 87 attempts), and he hustles, and he has that underdog thing going for him. He has only six career homers, but, hey, one was a grand slam. No one who has ever watched Willie Bloomquist play would doubt that the guy loves ball.

The Willie Bloomquist philosophy ... is built around passion, what is intangible, this sense that if you can get a bunch of guys who KNOW HOW to play the game, who LOVE the game, who HAVE BASEBALLS BEATING IN THEIR CHESTS, then you can do wonderful things (even if the players can’t hit worth a damn). With Bloomquist you have an astonishingly weak hitter who plays occasionally, cracked ONE EXTRA BASE HIT last year*, doesn’t get on base, plays seven defensive positions, can really run and gets his uniform so dirty that, according to his jarringly lengthy Wikipedia entry, he has over the years been called (mostly in jest/derision) Wee Willie, Ballgame, The Ignitor, Effin, WFB, The Spork, Princess Willie, Willie Boom-Boom and, by Angels announcer Rex Hudler, The Mighty Bloomquist.