All Time Baseball Roto Team

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Published on February 4, 2011

I wrote an article to this effect in 1999 for the site, and it was a by-position, by-season best-ever fantasy lineup, with the catch that you could only use one season per player, i.e., you couldn't use Babe Ruth's 1920 and 1921 seasons. Second, it was only the raw stats, not adjusted for era. Third - it was only players from 1900 on. Here's the team:

POS	PLAYER	YEAR	AB	HR	RBI	RUNS	SB	BA
C	Ivan Rodriguez	1999	600	35	113	116	25	.332
C	Mike Piazza	1997	556	40	124	104	5	.362
1B	Lou Gehrig	1931	619	46	184	163	17	.341
2B	Rogers Hornsby	1922	623	42	152	141	17	.401
3B	Alex Rodriguez	2007	583	54	156	143	24	.314
SS	Hanley Ramirez	2007	639	29	81	125	51	.332
CI	Jimmie Foxx	1932	585	58	169	151	3	.364
MI	Joe Morgan	1976	472	27	111	113	60	.320
OF	Ty Cobb	1911	591	8	127	147	83	.420
OF	Babe Ruth	1921	540	59	171	177	17	.378
OF	Hack Wilson	1930	585	56	191	146	3	.356
OF	Chuck Klein	1930	648	40	170	158	4	.386
OF	Larry Walker	1997	568	49	130	143	33	.366
UT	George Sisler	1920	631	19	122	137	42	.407

POS	PLAYER	YEAR	IP	ERA	WHIP	WINS	SAVES	K
P	Ed Walsh	1906	464	1.42	.860	40	6	269
P	Christy Matthewson	1908	390.2	1.43	.827	37	0	259
P	Walter Johnson	1913	346	1.14	.780	36	0	243
P	Grover Alexander	1915	376.1	1.22	.842	31	0	241
P	Sandy Koufax	1965	335.2	2.04	.855	27	0	382
P	Steve Carlton	1972	346.1	1.97	.993	27	0	310
P	Eric Gagne	2003	82.1	1.20	.692	2	55	137
P	Trevor Hoffman	1998	73	1.48	.849	4	53	86
P	Dennis Eckersley	1990	73.1	.61	.614	4	48	73

Let me know if you think I made any omissions. I originally had ARod at SS for his 40/40 season in 1998, but switched him to 3B because it was thin and put Hanley Ramirez in his place .