Best of the Best

[Hmark6]

I just had this discussion with my buddy at work. Its a slow day at the office today...

We were talking about the Top 5 offensive players in each category. I don't care about how many championships they won or how well they did when you interviewed them *ahem*. I want the Top 5 Mashers straight up. If it's too tough to pick 5, then give me honorable mentions. You can add comments about the players if you like.

The 1990's in no particular order.

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5.


Past 10 Years (96-05) in no particular order.

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4.
5.

And what will the list look like in 5 years (2001-2010)

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

[DirtyKash]

The 1990's in order.

1. Barry Bonds
2. Ken Griffey Jr
3. Frank Thomas
4. Juan Gonzalez
5. Albert Belle


Past 10 Years (96-05) in order.

1. Barry Bonds
2. Alex Rodriguez
3. Manny Ramirez
4. Sammy Sosa
5. Carlos Delgado


And what will the list look like in 5 years (2001-2010)

1. Albert Pujols
2. David Ortiz
3. Vladimir Guerrero
4. Manny Ramirez
5. Bobby Abreu

[Kingdom]

The 1990's in no particular order.

1. Ken Griffey Jr.
2. Frank Thomas
3. Jeff Bagwell
4. Barry Bonds
5. Mike Piazza


Past 10 Years (96-05) in no particular order.

1. Barry Bonds
2. Alex Rodriguez
3. Manny Ramirez
4. Todd Helton
5. Chipper Jones

And what will the list look like in 5 years (2001-2010)

1. Albert Pujols
2. Vladimer Guerrero
3. Ryan Howard
4. Miguel Tejada
5. Travis Hafner

[DirtyKash]

And what will the list look like in 5 years (2001-2010)

1. Albert Pujols
2. Vladimer Guerrero
3. Ryan Howard
4. Miguel Tejada
5. Travis Hafner

Howard and Hafner barely have any stats before 2005, and you're putting them on a list for 2001-2010?

[General]

The 1990's in no particular order.

1. Griffey
2. Helton
3. Sosa
4. McGwire
5. Frank Thomas


Past 10 Years (96-05) in no particular order.

1. Ken Griffey Jr.
2. Barry Bonds
3. A-Rod
4. Manny
5. Helton

And what will the list look like in 5 years (2001-2010)

1. Pujols
2. A-Rod
3. Teixeira
4. Manny
5. Andruw Jones/Vlad

[love_that_reefer]

The 1990's in no particular order.

1.Barry Bonds
2.Ken Griffey Jr
3.Frank Thomas
4.Juan Gonzalez
5.Matt Williams


Past 10 Years (96-05) in no particular order.

1.Mark McGwire
2.Barry Bonds
3.Sammy Sosa
4.Albert Pujols
5.Alex Rodriguez

And what will the list look like in 5 years (2001-2010)

1.Albert Pujols
2.Miguel Cabrera
3.Vlad Guerrero
4.Travis Hafner
5.Adam Dunn

[Kingdom]

Fine, Teixeira instead of Howard. But just wait Kash, just wait.

[Pronk48]

The 1990's in no particular order.

1.Barry Bonds
2.Ken Griffey Jr.
3.Mark McGuire
4.Frank Thomas
5.Juan Gonzalez


Past 10 Years (96-05) in no particular order.

1.Barry Bonds
2.Mark McGuire
3.Sammy Sosa
4.Manny Ramirez
5.Derek Jeter (not so much power,but always comes up with big hits)

And what will the list look like in 5 years (2001-2010)

1.Albert Pujols
2.Vlad Guerrero
3.A-Rod
4.Robinson Cano (might not be a power hitter....but he's gonna be like Jeter coming up with big hits)
5.Travis Hafner (this year was just the begining)

[Kingdom]

Hafner had a good 2004 too.. so he really began last season.

[Hmark6]

This was my list yesterday from the email that started this debate at work:

The 1990's in no particular order.

1. Ken Griffey Jr.
2. Barry Bonds
3. Frank Thomas
4. Tony Gywnn
5. Mike Piazza

Honorable Mention: Mark McGwire, Jeff Bagwell, Albert Belle


Past 10 Years (96-05) in no particular order.

1. Barry Bonds
2. Todd Helton
3. Sammy Sosa
4. Manny Ramirez
5. Jim Thome

Honorable Mention: Jeff Bagwell, Larry Walker , Alex Rodriguez


And what will the list look like in 5 years (2001-2010)

1. Albert Pujols
2. Vladimir Guerrero
3. Alex Rodriguez
4. Mark Teixeira
5. Travis "Pronk" Hafner ..going out on a limb

Honorable Mention: David Ortiz, Hank Blalock, Barry Bonds (he will play forever)

[Kingdom]

See, I'm not the only one to list Hafner. He's molding into a David Ortiz type guy. Beware!

[DirtyKash]

Again, Hafner barely did anything from 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. You can find many players in baseball who'll have a better resume from 2001 to 2010 and cover all of those years.

[redsrbetter]

The 1990's

Best pure hitter:

1. Tony Gwynn
2. Mike Piazza
3. Frank Thomas
4. Terry Pendleton
5. Edgar Martinez

Best power hitter:

1. Mark McGwire
2. Ken Griffey Jr.
3. Cecil Fielder
4. Matt Williams
5. Juan Gonzalez


Past 10 Years (96-05)

pure hitter:

1. Tony Gwynn
2. Barry Bonds
3. Todd Helton
4. Mike Piazza
5. Edgar Martinez

power hitter:

1. Barry Bonds
2. Mark McGwire
3. Ken Griffey Jr.
4. Alex Rodriguez
5. Sammy Sosa

And what will the list look like in 5 years

pure hitter:

1. Albert Pujols
2. Ichiro Suzuki
3. Clint Barmes
4. Sean Casey
5. Jeff Franceour

Power hitter:

1. Adam Dunn
2. Ryan Howard
3. Albert Pujols
4. Andrew Jones
5. Wily Mo Pena

[DirtyKash]

^^^ Thanks for the laugh.

Tony Gwynn is in your list for the last 10 years (96-05)? Care to remind me what Gwynn has done since the new millenium? (2000-2005)

And what have Barmes, Francoeur and Howard done in the 2001-2004 years?

[General]

Francoeur will own..but not between 2001-2004.