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Who is the greatest in your generation?

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What are we defining as "my generation?"

Guys who played during my generation? Or people born in my generation?


Gen X (guys who played during the generation I grew up):
Pitcher: Randy Johnson
Hitter: Griffey Jr., Bonds, Pujols

Millennial (my generation):
Pitcher: Clayton Kershaw
Hitter: Trout

The Millennial generation seems locked in. I don't know how you can make an argument for anyone else in terms of performance metrics and overall level of talent.

Gen X was loaded, thanks in part to the steroid generation. Maddux, Pedro, Clemens and Johnson all could make a reasonable case, though I went with Big Unit on sheer stuff and dominance from the position.
 
Randy Johnson, Roger Clemens and several others were more dominant for a longer period of time, but I'd put Pedro circa 97-03 on par with any pitcher in the history of baseball considering how many hitters were juiced to the fucking gills at that time.

To narrow it down further, I'm not sure I'd take any two-year run over Pedro in 1999 and 2000.

And I mean hey, maybe Pedro was juicing too, but either way.

Randy was absolutely awesome during roughly the same time period too.

It's really close.
 
There's nobody around to speak up for the really old players, but Cy Young pitched 749 complete games. In 1892 while pitching for Cleveland he went 36-12, 49 starts, 48 complete games, 9 shutouts, 453 innings, 1.93 ERA. I don't care if it was a different era -- they didn't have the care players do today, they traveled everywhere by train, and they didn't have comforts like air conditioning.

Every time Cy pitched the bullpen got a day off.

Ohio dude as well. Total badass.
 
For me, the best hitters I've ever seen are: Mike Trout, Albert Pujols, Miguel Cabrera, Joey Votto
Pitchers: Clayton Kershaw, Max Scherzer

I'm 23 years old, so I missed out on the great years of Bonds, Griffey, Pedro, Randy Jonhson, and Clemens.
 
Pete Rose is up there but i was too young for his Reds heydey. I saw him in his Phillies, Expos days.
 
AZ_ said:
What are we defining as "my generation?"

Guys who played during my generation? Or people born in my generation?


Gen X (guys who played during the generation I grew up):
Pitcher: Randy Johnson
Hitter: Griffey Jr., Bonds, Pujols

Millennial (my generation):
Pitcher: Clayton Kershaw
Hitter: Trout

The Millennial generation seems locked in. I don't know how you can make an argument for anyone else in terms of performance metrics and overall level of talent.

Gen X was loaded, thanks in part to the steroid generation. Maddux, Pedro, Clemens and Johnson all could make a reasonable case, though I went with Big Unit on sheer stuff and dominance from the position.
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The Pedro/ Unit thing was always tough for me. I always thought Pedro was more unhittable. I dont know if you were old enough to remember him coming in out of the pen in say 1998? In the Playoffs and completely shutting us down. In his prime i dont think i ever saw him get shelled. Edit, i think it was 1999.
 
Joe Charboneau said:
The Pedro/ Unit thing was always tough for me. I always thought Pedro was more unhittable. I dont know if you were old enough to remember him coming in out of the pen in say 1998? In the Playoffs and completely shutting us down. In his prime i dont think i ever saw him get shelled. Edit, i think it was 1999.
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I was, unfortunately, old enough for that.

Peak Pedro during that time, he was absolutely filthy.
 
Joe Charboneau said:
The Pedro/ Unit thing was always tough for me. I always thought Pedro was more unhittable. I dont know if you were old enough to remember him coming in out of the pen in say 1998? In the Playoffs and completely shutting us down. In his prime i dont think i ever saw him get shelled. Edit, i think it was 1999.
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Dang if you were old enough posts referring back to 1999? I remember the days of people calling to sports talk saying if you were old enough to remember what happened in the early 70s or even 60s. Guess we are all getting older...
 
Doug Jones. Had two pitches. A slow fastball and a very slow change up. I still love watching old videos of hitters swinging for the fences only to realize, they had time to swing twice...LOL!!
 
ajz20 said:
Dang if you were old enough posts referring back to 1999? I remember the days of people calling to sports talk saying if you were old enough to remember what happened in the early 70s or even 60s. Guess we are all getting older...
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Yeah, me too. Not sure how old you are but i remember when as a kid i actually thought Thunder Thornton was a homerun hitting legend. I think he usually hit like 27 hrs. The 90s seem like yesterday though.
 
I've watched the Tribe my whole life starting from our 90s run. I became a baseball junkie when we hired Tito. So for me it has to be Miguel Cabrera.

He's had 12 total seasons with well over 100 RBIs
11 in a row from 2004 - 2014.
1,307 RBIs during that timeframe.
1,672 career total and still counting.
Back to back MVP awards in 13' 14' .

Not to mention I HATE the Tigers! I think we play the Tigers 18 times every year so I was constantly yelling at the TV watching him destroy us at every opportunity. He is by no means my favorite player, but I respect him. So for my "Generation" I'll say Miggy
 
Connor said:
I've watched the Tribe my whole life starting from our 90s run. I became a baseball junkie when we hired Tito. So for me it has to be Miguel Cabrera.

He's had 12 total seasons with well over 100 RBIs
11 in a row from 2004 - 2014.
1,307 RBIs during that timeframe.
1,672 career total and still counting.
Back to back MVP awards in 13' 14' .

Not to mention I HATE the Tigers! I think we play the Tigers 18 times every year so I was constantly yelling at the TV watching him destroy us at every opportunity. He is by no means my favorite player, but I respect him. So for my "Generation" I'll say Miggy
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You rank him ahead of Pujols? Thats close to me.
 
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