Locals Before Legends

Living with schizophrenia and persevering through it every day brings me to a lot of ideas about baseball. It is my favorite sport. Just recently, I wrote 93 baseball player names from memory, without internet search help, who I think of as some of the greatest (or best) baseball players of the 2000 to 2019 years. Perhaps I’ll have a 93 mph fastball one day. Perhaps the Yankees or Red Sox will be the first Major League organizations with their own flying team buses to start Opening Day 2020 next year. Here are the player names.

 

Alex Rodriguez

Barry Bonds

Ivan Rodriguez

Yadier Molina

Jimmy Rollins

Josh Donaldson

Ichiro Suzuki

Ian Kinsler

Mike Trout

Adrian Beltre

Robinson Cano

Vladimir Guerrero

Miguel Cabrera

Albert Pujols

Derek Jeter

Corey Kluber

Roy Halladay

Matt Harvey

Randy Johnson

Curt Schilling

Felix Hernandez

Matt Cain

Zach Greinke

Jacob DeGrom

Chris Carpenter

Adam Wainright

Clayton Kershaw

Pedro Martinez

David Price

C.C. Sabathia

Justin Verlander

Chris Sale

Mariano Rivera

Troy Percival

Trevor Hoffman

John Smoltz

Kelvin Rodriguez

Craig Kimbrell

Wade Davis

Jim Thome

Adam Jones

Mark Trumbo

Chase Utley

Ryan Howard

Edwin Encarnacion

Jose Altuve

Edgar Martinez

Ken Griffey Jr.

Edgar Renteria

Dustin Pedroia

Gary Sheffield

Tino Martinez

David Ortiz

Joey Votto

Manny Ramirez

Larry Walker

Paul Goldschmidt

Jose Bautista

Ryan Braun

Carlos Beltran

Torii Hunter

Andrew McCutchen

Adrian Gonzalez

Cole Hamels

Madison Bumgarner

Bartolo Colon

Bernie Williams

Matt Holliday

Jim Edmonds

Carlos Santana

Mark Grudzielanek

Evan Longoria

Joe Mauer

Salvador Perez

Freddie Freeman

Sammy Sosa

Mark McGwire

Rafael Furcal

Jose Reyes

Kevin Youkilis

Johnny Damon

Scott Rolen

Brandon Belt

Brandon Crawford

Carl Crawford

Jeff Kent

Alfonso Soriano

Ervin Santana

Jose Fernandez

Julio Teheran

Yu Darvish

Jake Arrieta

Garret Cole