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Banedon GOAT

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I voted for Banks cuz duh, and Sosa and wrote in Kerry Wood, cuz those two are responsible for my best Cubs memories.
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bukie All-Star

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Three-finger Brown, Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Ryne Sandberg.

 

As insane as Sandberg turned out to be, he's still one of the four best Cubs players.

TruffleShuffle Cooperstown

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cap anson is actually #1 in bWAR among cub players, but he was a miserable racist and hardly anybody remembers who he is, so i can see why they'd leave him off the list.

 

top 10 in bWAR among cub players:

1. cap anson: 84 in 22 years (3.82 per season)

2. ron santo: 72 in 14 years (5.14 per season)

3. ryne sandberg: 67 in 14.5 years (4.62 per season)

4. ernie banks: 67 in basically 18 years worth of games (3.72 per season)

5. billy williams: 62 in 14 years worth of games (4.43 per season)

6. sammy sosa: 58 in 12.5 years (4.64 per season)

7. fergie jenkins: 55 in 10 years (5.50 per season)

8. stan hack: 52 in 14 years worth of games (3.71 per season)

9. gabby hartnett: 52 in 16 years worth of games (3.25 per season)

10. rick reuschel (!!): 49 in 10.5 years worth of games (4.67 per season)

 

rest of the top 20:

11. clark griffith

12. mordecai brown: 45 in 9.5 years worth of games (4.74 per season)

13. frank chance

14. joe tinker

15. carlos zambrano

16. mark grace

17. pete alexander

18. hippo vaughn

19. billy herman

20. johnny evers

 

 

anyway, our list seems kind of lame when you consider that the yankees have a top 4 of ruth, gehrig, mantle and dimaggio, or the giants (mays, bonds, ott, christy mathewson), or the red sox with ted williams, yaz, clemens (hilariously omitted from the red sox voting options) and boggs (also omitted inexplicably).

 

then again, there are teams which haven't been around long and have some pretty funny options on their lists:

 

rays: carlos pena (played all of four seasons for them), bj upton, scott kazmir

padres: nate colbert

marlins: luis castillo, jeff conine, gary sheffield (played four seasons worth of games there), charles johnson

brewers: jim gantner, gorman thomas

RynoRules Knoxville Smokies

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Having Z on the list is strange. He wasn't that good. But no stranger than Reuschel. I feel like Red Baron should be there over one of them, probably Z.
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Having Z on the list is strange. He wasn't that good. But no stranger than Reuschel. I feel like Red Baron should be there over one of them, probably Z.

 

Sutcliffe ahead of Z? Huh?

RynoRules Knoxville Smokies

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Sutt's BR WAR from 84'-89':

 

3.9

2.7

2.4

6.1

3.4

3.2

 

Z from 03'-08':

5.5

6.7

5.6

5.2

3.4

4.3

 

Yup, Z was better, but Rick wasn't exactly mediocre after 84'.

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