As we begin our ranking of the top 100 Major League Baseball players to ever take the diamond, it’s time to debate the stars who landed just outside of our list.
With that in mind, we asked our MLB experts to find the one player not in this week’s top 100 they most strongly feel deserves to be there. From Negro Leagues stars and Hall of Famers from the early days of the sport to recent MVPs and postseason heroes, here are the nine players they named.
The List: 100-51 | 50-26 (coming Wednesday) | 25-1 (coming Thursday)
Negro Leagues stars
Bullet Rogan
The Negro Leagues were clearly underrepresented on our top 100, and three players certainly stood out as snubs: first baseman Buck Leonard, shortstop Pop Lloyd and two-way player Bullet Rogan. When I solicited the opinion of Bob Kendrick, the president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, he was unequivocal: Rogan was the biggest miss of…
