GOAT for each MLB team?

Red Sox = Ted Williams

Mays. Not Bonds.

Hank Aaron Braves
Stan Musial Cardinals
Mike Schmidt Phillies
George Brett Royals

Toughest one will be the Dodgers

Mike Schmidt - Phillies

Also as we all know, Schmidt is the GOAT third baseman.

@stevek said:
Mike Schmidt - Phillies

Also as we all know, Schmidt is the GOAT third baseman.

now you have gone and done it...

@craig44 said:
can we have both a goat position player and goat pitcher for each team?

I have teddy ballgame and the rocket for Boston

Pedro is my guy over Clemens but agreed

Phillies greatest pitcher - Steve Carlton

BTW - Carlton may be the GOAT season pitcher. In 1972, Steve had 27 wins for a Phillies team that only won a pathetic 59 games. I'd like to see any other pitcher in MLB history do that?

Pirates - Honus Wagner
Giants - Barry Bonds
Orioles - Eddie Murray
Reds - Pete Rose

Arizona- Paul Goldschmidt

@Darin said:
Pirates

1. Honus Wagner
2. Roberto Clemente
3. Wilver Stargell

Stargell was a better hitter than Clemente but I put Roberto ahead of him because of defense.
Honus Wagner absolutely dominated baseball during his playing days.

I agree with everything you said, but you left out Arky Vaughan who I'd put second on the Pirates. His career ended (effectively) early because of WWII, but he was at least as good a hitter as Clemente, and he played shortstop.

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@stevek said:
Phillies greatest pitcher - Steve Carlton

BTW - Carlton may be the GOAT season pitcher. In 1972, Steve had 27 wins for a Phillies team that only won a pathetic 59 games. I'd like to see any other pitcher in MLB history do that?

I think I'm taking Grover Cleveland Alexander though Carlton has more years in Philly.

@Tabe said:

@stevek said:
Phillies greatest pitcher - Steve Carlton

BTW - Carlton may be the GOAT season pitcher. In 1972, Steve had 27 wins for a Phillies team that only won a pathetic 59 games. I'd like to see any other pitcher in MLB history do that?

I think I'm taking Grover Cleveland Alexander though Carlton has more years in Philly.

I'm not sure exactly how many wins that Alexander had with the Phillies, but Carlton holds the record for that.

Alexander certainly wouldn't be a bad choice.

Senators/Twins - Walter Johnson
A's - Lefty Grove
Mets - Tom Seaver

@Darin said:
Pirates

1. Honus Wagner
2. Roberto Clemente
3. Wilver Stargell

Stargell was a better hitter than Clemente but I put Roberto ahead of him because of defense.
Honus Wagner absolutely dominated baseball during his playing days.

Where do you rank Kiner? He played 7 full seasons for Pittsburg and led the league in HR every single season.

There is an unanswered question that makes choosing a GOAT difficult for some teams. Frank Robinson is the greatest player to ever play for the Orioles, but he only spent 6 seasons there. I don't consider him the GOAT Oriole, but someone else might. Does the team GOAT have to have played a large part of his career with that team, and then we consider his whole career, even the part spent on other teams? Or do we consider only what he did for that team, and ignore the rest of his career? Or something else?

For example, the Reds:

Joe Morgan - GOAT by definition 1
Johnny Bench - GOAT by definition 2

Orioles: Frank Robinson (GOAT 1) or Cal Ripken (GOAT 2)

@dallasactuary said:
There is an unanswered question that makes choosing a GOAT difficult for some teams. Frank Robinson is the greatest player to ever play for the Orioles, but he only spent 6 seasons there. I don't consider him the GOAT Oriole, but someone else might. Does the team GOAT have to have played a large part of his career with that team, and then we consider his whole career, even the part spent on other teams? Or do we consider only what he did for that team, and ignore the rest of his career? Or something else?

For example, the Reds:

Joe Morgan - GOAT by definition 1
Johnny Bench - GOAT by definition 2

Orioles: Frank Robinson (GOAT 1) or Cal Ripken (GOAT 2)

"Or do we consider only what he did for that team, and ignore the rest of his career?"

This is the correct answer.

Since DD is out to pasture, I am his corresponding secretary.

Reds GOAT

Definition 1 - Johnny Bench
Definition 2 - Johnny Bench
Definition 3-100 - Johnny Bench

@dallasactuary said:
Senators/Twins - Walter Johnson
A's - Lefty Grove
Mets - Tom Seaver

Dallas…. Just curious would you have Killebrew second for Senators/Twins?

@Basebal21 said:
Some of these > @Darin said:

@perkdog said:
Hank Aaron Braves
Stan Musial Cardinals
Mike Schmidt Phillies
George Brett Royals

Toughest one will be the Dodgers

Perk, looks like nobody has weighed in on the Dodgers yet.
I’ll go with Duke Snider but if Jackie Robinson had played a few more years I would probably go with him.

Unrelated to your post but since folks are split on Giants GOAT I’ll say

Human Goat- Willie Mays
Human- Sasquatch hybrid GOAT-
Barry Bonds

Like it, I thought of Duke or Robinsin as well.

Campy put up.some heavy numbers before his accident but Duke definitely had longevity

I'd probably take Mays over Bonds without the steroids if it came down to it though

@dallasactuary said:

@Darin said:

Dallas…. Just curious would you have Killebrew second for Senators/Twins?

Definitely. And since we're not counting what players (Carew) did for other teams, he's second by a mile over 3rd.

I'd also pick Jackie Robinson over Duke Snider. Snider wasn't that much better a hitter than Robinson, and Robinson was a GREAT second baseman and baserunner. Robinson does have the shorter career, but regardless of any rule there is no way I'm penalizing him for not making the majors until he was 28

I wouldn’t argue about having Jackie at number 1. What I didn’t realize about him until looking at his stats was that his OBP was .410
I didn’t know it was that high. Amazing career for starting at 28 and enduring all the taunts, threats on his life etc.

I see a lot of obvious names as the GOAT of each franchise. What strikes me as amusing is the omission of an "obvious name" we all know and love.

Trouty!
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Hmmmmm...

If we were to create a Mount Rushmore of "Greatest MLB Players to Ever Wear an Angels Uniform", it would look like this:
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If we are basing the selection solely on their accomplishments in an Angels uniform, then you might be able to contort your argument to get Trouty somewhere in the top 2 or 3. It is glaringly obvious that everyone is shying away from attaching their name to that position, as people realize more and more just what a fraud has been enacted on baseball fans everywhere - the lies they've been told - the lies they've believed.
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Trouty is at his best when it matters least. He can only win when the stakes are low. Have him step over to high limit, where nothing about the game has changed but the color of the chips, and he shrinks in the moment.

Sometimes, you just have to know who you are. And that is one thing that I'll acknowledge. Trouty knows who he is. He gladly took Arte's money to play games in the West Coast time zone for a team no one cares about, accepting undeserved accolades and zero responsibility for the teams' shortcoming. He's gotten a free pass for a long time. We'll see what happens this off-season, if Trouty decides to step on over to high limit, or if he's content to continue playing $5 blackjack with Arte's money.
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