MLB 2018 regular season thread

One of the top 10 players in baseball, roughly, every year for five years running.

 

Yeah, he was very good for 5 years.

 

I bet there has never been an eligible non-PED player with five consecutive top six MVP finishes who is not in the Hall of Fame.

 

You've probably looked and armed yourself for a reply.

 

I’m trying to find someone. I haven’t.

Cano, on the merits, is a 360 tomahawk slam dunk on Draymond’s head.

 

No one appears to be close.

Barry Bonds had two streaks of exactly five consecutive top six MVP finishes.

 

Ryne Sandberg never did it.

Roberto Alomar never did it.

 

Garvey was 1-11-6-6-2. Granted 11th isn't top 6 but he won it in '74 whereas Cano hasn't won it.

Garvey's not in.

What's funny is that his 11th-place stats were by and large better than his MVP-winning stats.

 

Aren’t you the guy who lampoons (gently) minor-league basketball programs that make a big fuss out of making it to the semifinals?

 

It’s not determinative. But it shows that he was consistently considered one of the top 10-15 players in the sport each year for five consecutive years. That’s something even most Hall of Famers can’t claim. Now, a lot of them won MVPs. But Cano was consistently great, year after year. That matters, too.

 

Cano's been a very good player, and -- absent the new PED suspension -- would be a Hall of Famer in my opinion.

I think he did sneak up on some of us in one sense, even thought he played in the largest media market during the prime of his career.

While he was a fan favorite, he was never the most famous player on the team, even if he might have been the best.

I'm also trying to remember if he ever regularly batted 3rd or 4th in the lineup, which is where you think of a teams most feared batters hitting.

 

He didn’t sneak up on me.