Round Four Wrap Up


Round-4-Wrap-Up-Featured-Card for Baseball's Greatest Player Playoff
Lou-Boudreau-Card Baseballs Greatest Player PlayoffWade-Boggs-Card Baseballs Greatest Player Playoff CardBarry-Larkin-Card Baseballs Greatest Player PlayoffGary-Carter-Card Baseballs Greatest Player PlayoffCarlton-Fisk-Card Baseballs Greatest Player Playoff

With the close of Round Four, we say goodbye to some very good hitters.

But we are on our way to number 1! We started with 600 batters and are now down to 392 as we determine, once and for all, who is the greatest offensive player in the history of baseball.*

I know, I know—it’s probably Babe Ruth, but who is number two? Who is number three? Ted Williams? Ty Cobb? Barry Bonds? Willie Mays? I am also well aware that this will settle nothing, but I am having fun with this gigantic project!

Dale Mitchell and Buck Ewing get a reprieve: they did not qualify based on placing in the top 4 in their league or finishing above .500 but I need multiples of “8” to make the leagues for the next round, so they are in!

*Up to 2015 because that’s the version of Strat-o-Matic computer baseball I am working with.

The Order They Finished (393-600)

393Frank Schulte
394Heinie Zimmerman
395Harry Hooper+
396Miller Huggins+
397Ed McKean
398Bill Everitt
399Lou Boudreau
400Ed Morgan
401Matty Alou
402Willie Wilson
403Gus Suhr
404Juan Gonzalez
405Jimmy Williams
406Sal Bando
407Brian Downing
408Ralph Garr
409Kip Selbach
410Carlton Fisk+
411Nelson Cruz
412Harvey Hendrick
413Robinson Cano
414George Burns
415Eddie Yost
416Don Mattingly
417Willie McGee
418Larry Gardner
419Buddy Myer
420Mo Vaughn
421Jermaine Dye
422Tommy Harper
423Adrian Beltre
424Wally Moses
425Dave Concepcion
426Eddie Joost
427George Burns
428Ted Simmons+
429Alan Trammell+
430Toby Harrah
431Paul Konerko
432Darrell Evans
433Lance Johnson
434Wally Pipp
435Adam Dunn
436Ozzie Smith+
437Raul Ibanez
438Tommy Leach
439Matt Williams
440Walt Wilmot
441Charlie Hickman
442Travis Hafner
443Travis Jackson+
444Andruw Jones
445Willie Horton
446Harry Davis
447Garry Templeton
448Delino DeShields
449Gary Carter+
450Stuffy McInnis
451Bobby Grich
452Brady Anderson
453Edwin Encarnacion
454George Case
455Freddy Leach
456Bob Bescher
457Julio Franco
458Dave Collins
459Charlie Grimm
460Torii Hunter
461Ron Gant
462Pat Burrell
463John Olerud
464Troy Glaus
465Bill Buckner
466Rajai Davis
467Eddie Stanky
468Omar Moreno
469Paul Radford
470Mickey Vernon
471Don Baylor
472Barry Larkin+
473Hal McRae
474Thurman Munson
475Bob Nieman
476Rusty Greer
477Carlos Beltran
478George Hendrick
479Barney McCosky
480Eric Young
481Ellis Burks
482Wade Boggs+
483Spud Davis
484Michael Bourn
485Buck Herzog
486Jimmy Collins+
487Del Pratt
488Luis Aparicio+
489Bill Dahlen
490Jim Gilliam
491Ron Fairly
492Cal Ripken+
493Lloyd Waner+
494Curt Welch
495Ron LeFlore
496Jeff Kent
497Nellie Fox+
498Jack Tobin
499Ray Durham
500Jimmy Dykes
501Cecil Travis
502Dummy Hoy
503Bill North
504Bob Fothergill
505Lu Blue
506Tony Womack
507Luis Polonia
508Juan Samuel
509Luis Castillo
510Tom Goodwin
511Andres Galarraga
512Dave Bancroft
513Cecil Fielder
514Tim Salmon
515Andre Thornton
516Robin Ventura
517Lew Fonseca
518Buddy Bell
519Dwight Evans
520Tino Martinez
521Michael Young
522Bibb Falk
523Doc Cramer
524Johnny Damon
525Craig Biggio+
526Alfonso Soriano
527Chicken Wolf
528Vinny Castilla
529Duff Cooley
530Brooks Robinson+
531Harold Baines+
532Johnny Hodapp
533Phil Rizzuto+
534Dots Miller
535Kevin Youkilis
536Greg Vaughn
537Larry Bowa
538Miguel Tejada
539Johnny Moore
540Ned Hanlon+
541Fred Tenney
542Jeromy Burnitz
543Tony Taylor
544Devon White
545Carlos Lee
546Ivan Rodriguez+
547B.J. Surhoff
548Dick Bartell
549Shano Collins
550Max Bishop
551John Ward+
552Les Mann
553Tim Wallach
554Tommy McCarthy+
555Tony Phillips
556Bobby Wallace+
557Rick Ferrell+
558Donie Bush
559Duke Farrell
560Garret Anderson
561Jack Glasscock
562Gary Pettis
563Aramis Ramirez
564Bert Campaneris
565Todd Zeile
566Willie Randolph
567Joe Carter
568Lave Cross
569Jim Fogarty
570Joe Charboneau
571Jose Altuve
572Rabbit Maranville+
573Julio Cruz
574Lance Parrish
575Bill Mazeroski+
576Kid Gleason
577Freddie Patek
578Bill Russell
579Omar Vizquel
580Gary Gaetti
581Tommy Tucker
582Ray Schalk+
583Red Schoendienst+
584Arlie Latham
585Tom Brown
586Edgar Renteria
587Jimmy Rollins
588Bob Boone
589Fred Pfeffer
590Orlando Cabrera
591Frank White
592Monte Cross
593Hugh Nicol
594Marquis Grissom
595Billy Shindle
596Tommy Dowd
597Chris Speier
598Tommy Corcoran
599Charlie Comiskey+
600Bill Kuehne

So far, I have played 199 seasons and 122,584 games and I guess I am approaching the halfway point; probably in the neighborhood of 200,000 more games to go!

In the next post, I will introduce the pitchers who will test the remaining hitters as we work our way toward the finals.

Tim Bruno

Tim has been a baseball fan for most of his life and has played a great deal of baseball and softball over the years. Although his playing days are long behind him, he remembers back when he was an extremely fast catcher with an extremely bad arm. He has been playing Strat-o-Matic baseball since he was 14. Tim is currently living in southwest France and writes A LOT about coffee at Procaffeination.com. He has also written Procaffeination: A Coffee Lover's Dictionary, which will be available soon. You can find out more about Tim's writing at TimothyBruno.com and if you want to contact him about the tournament, drop him an email at Tim@BaseballsGreatestPlayerPlayoff.com

Recent Posts