Bill James' Sabermetic All-Star Team | |
Major League Baseball's Greatest Players By Position | |
| Position | Player |
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| Catcher | Yogi Berra |
| First Base | Lou Gherig |
| Second Base | Joe Morgan |
| Third Base | Mike Schmidt |
| Left Field | Ted Williams |
| Center Field | Willie Mays |
| Right Field | Babe Ruth |
| Pitcher | *** Roger Clemens |
Bill James said that Babe Ruth was the greatest player of all times, as good a hitter as Ted Williams, with greater home run power. | |
Bill James is an influential baseball writer and statistician. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), attempts to use scientific data collection and interpretation methods to explain why teams win and lose.
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***This player may have used steroids to get 300 or more wins over his career. | |