The most all-time greats at a single position active at the same time

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by packs

His peak was brief but Nomar, A-rod, Jeter all playing short in the AL in their primes was great. Barry Larkin was still making all star teams too in the NL at the same time.

Ripken put up a .950 OPS in 1999 if that's enough of an overlap to include him.

[jingram058]

Don't know if this counts as active at one time, but I have never seen anything like this before.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by jingram058

Don't know if this counts as active at one time, but I have never seen anything like this before.

HaHa, that's Great!

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Ripken put up a .950 OPS in 1999 if that's enough of an overlap to include him.

He was playing 3B by then. But was still playing short I think when Jeter and ARod came up.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Ripken put up a .950 OPS in 1999 if that's enough of an overlap to include him.

Yeah, Ripken had a really nice half season in '99. Batted .340 in 86 games. Maybe he should have taken a break more often.

[D. Bergin]

Defensive metrics really love Cal. I think we took him for granted during his career in that aspect, but he's got a higher lifetime Defensive WAR rating then Omar Vizquel, in about the same amount of games played.

Not quite Belanger-esque...but pretty close.

[todeen]

Originally Posted by packs

His peak was brief but Nomar, A-rod, Jeter all playing short in the AL in their primes was great. Barry Larkin was still making all star teams too in the NL at the same time.

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Tejada had some really big years too including that absurd 150 RBI season.

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Might as well throw Vizquel in there to. 11 Gold Gloves, almost 3000 hits.

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Ripken put up a .950 OPS in 1999 if that's enough of an overlap to include him.

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

He was playing 3B by then. But was still playing short I think when Jeter and ARod came up.

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Yeah, Ripken had a really nice half season in '99. Batted .340 in 86 games. Maybe he should have taken a break more often.

1996 overlapping would include Ozzie Smith (1.6 WAR in 82 games), but would lose Miguel Tejada. Instead of Tejada you can add Edgar Renteria. And even Rey Ordonez, a light hitting defensive wizard. You also get a below average Alan Trammell at the end of his career (-1.1 WAR in 66 games).

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[robw1959]

I think the position of catchers was particularly strong during the '30s since that position included such greats as Bill Dickey, Mickey Cochrane, Jimmy Foxx (albeit part-time), Gabby Hartnett, Ernie Lombardi, Rick Ferrell, and Josh Gibson, all of whom have been elected to Cooperstown.