Baseball From A-Z

MLB Network did a countdown of the best baseball player ever for each letter of the alphabet.

And I can't resist.  So, what you see here would be my list, plus the runner-up for each letter.  Where MLB chose someone different, I placed that in parenthesis.

A-Aaron, not hard, runner up is Pete Alexander

B-Bonds, even easier, runner up is Johnny Bench

C-Cobb, tough, the Rocket would be a fair selection

D-DiMaggio, Ed Delahanty's the runner-up.

E-Edmonds (MLB picked Eckersley, but he wouldn't be my runner-up, that would be Buck Ewing)

F-Foxx ( MLB picked Feller, that's a bad pick, but he'd be my runner-up )

G-Gehrig (Lefty Grove's my runner-up)

H-Hornsby (Rickey would also be defensible)

I-   Monte Irvin (MLB picked Raul Ibanez, which is an...interesting selection; it's a mediocre lot, my runner-up might be Brandon Inge)

J-Walter Johnson (easy pick, Randy is next)

K-Kaline (MLB took Koufax, which is error, Killebrew would be my runner-up) 

L-Lajoie (easy pick, Larkin's my runner-up)

M-Mays (easy pick despite how great Musial was)

N-Nichols (I missed this pick, I assume they picked Phil Niekro, that's reasonable and he'd be my runner-up)

O-Ott (There isn't an O anywhere near Mel Ott; Jim O'Rourke is my runner-up)

P-Pujols(MLB took Satchel Paige, which is unsupportable. Gaylord Perry's my runner-up)

Q-Jack Quinn(MLB took Quisenberry, 'cause they don't know who Jack Quinn was)

R-Ruth (Frank Robinson's the runner-up)

S-Schmidt (just ahead of Seaver)

T-Frank Thomas (easy, Thome's next)

U-Utley (by a little bit over George Uhle)

V-Vaughan(MLB took Omar Vizquel?  Can we take a moment?  In 7700 PA Vaughan had 70 WAR by B-Ref; Vizquel in 12000 PA had 40.I must have misunderstood the purpose of this list)

W-Wagner(MLB took Ted Williams, which I get)

X-(MLB took David Ortiz. Dopey)

Y-Young (obviously)

Z- Ryan Zimmerman(MLB took Zito, and that's reasonable and maybe even the better pick, but won't be in two years)