Your Top 10 Players today.

[Bothrops Atrox]

I'm projecting.

That makes more sense. Though past performance is the best predictor of future performance. He is young of course, so he has room.

[bluesky5]

A guy who rolls out 115-120 ERA+ every year a top-10 player much less pitcher? I don't see it. I know he has been fantastic in a few postseasons, but there is no way i'd take him right now for a season over Sale or Wainwright or a bunch of other guys until he shows he can dominate (not just be really good) in the regular season at least once.

I'm projecting.

[Cap78]

Bumgarner is officially the Jack Morris of this generation. He's not even a top 5 pitcher.

Yes, he is very good and he's had some huge moments in October. Top 10 PLAYER? Ridiculous.

I wanted to take a wildcard pick, and he was it...certainly a lot of guys could have been taken, including waino...but my pick is obviously contingent also on if he can continue where he left off

[GiambiJuice]

In no order:
-trout
-cabrera
-kershaw
-bumgarner
-stanton
-mccutchen
-goldshmidt
-felix
-cano
-altuve - pound for pound or inch for inch, none better

Bumgarner is officially the Jack Morris of this generation. He's not even a top 5 pitcher.

Yes, he is very good and he's had some huge moments in October. Top 10 PLAYER? Ridiculous.

[Bothrops Atrox]

A guy who rolls out 115-120 ERA+ every year a top-10 player much less pitcher? I don't see it. I know he has been fantastic in a few postseasons, but there is no way i'd take him right now for a season over Sale or Wainwright or a bunch of other guys until he shows he can dominate (not just be really good) in the regular season at least once.

[bluesky5]

1. Trout
2. Kershaw
3. Stanton
4. McCutchen
5. Puig
6. Cabrera
7. Robby Cano
8. Bumgarner
9. King Felix
10. Goldschmidt

[Cap78]

In no order:
-trout
-cabrera
-kershaw
-bumgarner
-stanton
-mccutchen
-goldshmidt
-felix
-cano
-altuve - pound for pound or inch for inch, none better

[Captain Cold Nose]

The fact that he was despised and considered a choker was a given. But he was a heck of a player.

I never understood the hatred for him. Of course, Bonds's attitude didn't endear him to a lot of folks outside San Francisco, either.

[Yankillaz]

Before the allegations started to come out, BBF was hardly the only place with those sentiments.

The fact that he was despised and considered a choker was a given. But he was a heck of a player.

[Captain Cold Nose]

UP!!!

A PED schmuck was the one of consensus best player here at BBF. Back in 2005 and 2006.

Before the allegations started to come out, BBF was hardly the only place with those sentiments.

[Yankillaz]

UP!!!

A PED schmuck was the one of consensus best player here at BBF. Back in 2005 and 2006.

[baseball junkie]

Top 10 Players

Since the question asks for the top 10 players today, I decided I'd break it down along the lines of position.

CA Joe Mauer
1B Albert Pujols
2B Chase Utley
3B David Wright
SS Miguel Tejada
LF Alfonso Soriano
CF Carlos Beltran
RF Manny Ramirez
SP Francisco Liriano
CL Jonathan Papelbon

I refuse to acknowledge the DH as a position and not just a spot in the batting order.

[Da Penguin]

in order

1.Albert Pujols
2.Vlad
3.A-rod
4.Big Papi
5.Halladay
6.Michael Young
7.Tex
8.Santana
9.Tejada
10.Pedro

[Yankillaz]

Easy:

1. A-Job
2. Pedro
3. Pujols
4. Clemens
5. Manny
6. Johnson
7. Ichiro
8. Helton
9. Rivera
10. Maddux

[ab11viva]

Four of you left off David Ortiz. Whose timely hits have won more games for his team this year than Big Papi? I don't buy the argument that he can't be considered for the MVP or a Top Ten list. When it counted during the 2004 WS his quick throw to 3B caught a key St. Louis baserunner. His intangibles, the fact he is the one guy I want up for me in the 9th inning of a tie game, plus his 147 RBI's should put him on the list over Manny and others.

That baserunner was Jeff Suppan, who didn't even move.