re: Top 10 Greatest 5-tool Baseball Players in History

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Are you really the best 5-tool player ever if you can't throw out Sid Bream? Isn't it the best players who had no glaring weakness in any of the 5 tools?

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I was reading through the list seeing if anyone had already posted this.

In case some don't know, this refers to the Pirates-Braves series in the NL Championship Series in 1992. Sid Bream scored the winning run from second (doing his best Mark Teixeira waddling/running imitation) and beat the nothing less than pathetic throw from Bonds in left.

Bonds was a 4 1/2 tool player -- average arm.

I think Micky Mantle, before he stepped on the drain and screwed up is knee (which never got fixed), was the most talented 5 tool player to ever play. At 200 pounds, he could go from home to first in 3.2 seconds, and hit a 565 foot tape measure home run.

In 1956 at the age of 24, he hit .353 with 52 homers and 130 RBI's. His OPS was 1.169.

Most of the highlights you see of him are from later in his career, when he was hobbling around on one leg.