Brad Freeman’s All-Time Lifetime Baseball Team

My all-time baseball team during my lifetime.

Starting Lineup:

LF: Rickey Henderson (Oakland Athletics)

CF: Ken Griffey Jr. (Seattle Mariners) *favorite non-KC Royal position player

RF: Tony Gwynn (San Diego Padres)

3B: George Brett (Kansas City Royals) *favorite KC Royal position player

SS: Cal Ripken Jr. (Baltimore Orioles)

2B: Roberto Alomar (Toronto Blue Jays/Baltimore Orioles/Cleveland Indians)

1B/DH: Frank Thomas (Chicago White Sox)

C: Ivan Rodriguez (Texas Rangers)

Batting Order:

1. Rickey Henderson

2. Cal Ripken Jr.

3. Ken Griffey Jr.

4. Tony Gwynn

5. Frank Thomas

6. Albert Pujols

7. George Brett

8. Ivan Rodriguez

9. Roberto Alomar

Bench:

OF: Ichiro Suzuki (Seattle Mariners)
OF: Carlos Beltran (Kansas City Royals/Houston Astros)
1B/DH: Albert Pujols (St. Louis Cardinals)
C: Buster Posey (San Francisco Giants)
OF/IF: Ben Zobrist (Tampa Bay Rays/Kansas City Royals) *26^th man during double headers

Starting Pitching Rotation:

1. Randy Johnson (Seattle Mariners/Arizona Diamondbacks) *favorite left-handed starter

2. Roger Clemens (Boston Red Sox/New York Yankees) *favorite right-handed starter

3. Pedro Martinez (Boston Red Sox)

4. Greg Maddux (Atlanta Braves) *favorite member of the 90s Atlanta Braves rotation

5. Curt Schilling (Philadelphia Phillies/Arizona Diamondbacks/Boston Red Sox)

Bullpen:

Nolan Ryan (Houston Astros/Texas Rangers) *can be a 6th starter/long reliever

Jesse Orosco (New York Mets/Baltimore Orioles)

John Franco (New York Mets)

Billy Wagner (Houston Astros)

John Wetteland (Texas Rangers/New York Yankees)

Dennis Eckersley (Oakland Athletics) *Set up man

Mariano Rivera (New York Yankees) *Closer

I’d feel this post would be incomplete if I didn’t give honorable mention  to being able to watch the last 2 dual sport athletes that last played. They played both professional football and baseball. Deion Sanders with the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds. As well as Bo Jackson with the Kansas City Royals.

Unfortunately, kids specialize by elementary school for health and financial reasons. Making the 2-sport athlete an astonishing feat, that may be unattainable ever again, and a relic of the past.