Best Baseball Players of All-Time Time-lapse

[chjh]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPkNnxMqOPA

This video lists the top 10 position players for each year going back to 1876. It's interesting to watch the rankings and see names pre-1900 that I've never heard of.

Would love to hear what stands out to others. Would also love to see if anyone has cards from some of the less popular players that made the rankings in the early years.

I wonder if the N54 community has cards for each of these players that made the rankings, particularly the pre-1909 players.

[skelly423]

Cool video, thanks for sharing. For me the biggest take away was ho amazing Rogers Hornsby was, and how he'd probably be viewed as one of the 2 or 3 greatest players of all time if his career didn't entirely overlap with Babe Ruth's. He was head and shoulders above anyone else in the video (except Ruth).

[etsmith]

You can really see the effect of steroids on Barry Bonds performance.

[Misunderestimated]

Thanks this is really cool!
My takeaways:
1 Sure Shot Dunlap got too much credit for being the best in most minor major league ever in 1884 (Union Association)
2. Can't believe Ron Santo made it to the top for a year!
3. Barry Bonds never fell off the top from the early 1990's until he was basically blackballed around 2005. (he did have a scary looking bulge in the 2000)
4. Billy Hamilton really was great
5. Boggs was as high as #1 while Gwynn was never close. I always felt like they were closer.
6. Brian McCann !!???

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Misunderestimated

Thanks this is really cool!
My takeaways:
1 Sure Shot Dunlap got too much credit for being the best in most minor major league ever in 1884 (Union Association)
2. Can't believe Ron Santo made it to the top for a year!
3. Barry Bonds never fell off the top from the early 1990's until he was basically blackballed around 2005. (he did have a scary looking bulge in the 2000)
4. Billy Hamilton really was great
5. Boggs was as high as #1 while Gwynn was never close. I always felt like they were closer.

Wade was #1 for 5 years in a row.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

how many years in a row would The Splendid Splinter been the top dog without his service, twice? He was leading going into WWII then off the chart, then leading again going into Korea , and amazingly bumps up to third place again at the very end of his career!

[cgjackson222]

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

I think the 5 year trailing average is a great way to look at this metric.

I am a little surprised they used fWAR (fan graphs) instead of bWAR (baseball reference). I'd like to see the same video with bWAR for comparison.

Would also be cool to see it for pitchers.