Well, being ESPN they’ve put out another one of their lists. This promises to tell us the current top 100 players in Major League Baseball. As usual, it’s a combination of the sublime and the ridiculous. I’m certainly not going to give you the entire list here, but I’ll do my standard job on it. I’ll give you the top player at each position (his spot in the list 1-100 will be the number in parenthesis) plus five pitchers (one of which has to be a lefty and one has to be a right-hander), a reliever, and the first player whose position is already taken will be the DH. Got all that? Good. So here we go.
1b Paul Goldschmidt (4)
2b Jose Altuve (10)
ss Carlos Correa (9)
3b Kris Bryant (6)
rf Bryce Harper (3)
cf Mike Trout (1)
lf Michael Conforto (42)
c Buster Posey (19)
P Clayton Kershaw (2), Chris Sale (5), Max Scherzer (7), Stephen Strasberg (20), Dallas Keuchel (22)
reliever Andrew Miller (36)
DH Nolan Arenado (8 and the second third baseman listed)
Francisco Lindor at number 11 is the highest rated player not to make the team. There are a lot of right and center fielders ahead of Conforto, but I wanted one guy in each position. The list also has a lot more infielders than outfielders high on the chart.
The list is on ESPN where you can check it out. If you don’t like it, take it up with ESPN.
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