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My All Rookie Starters

Young Ted Williams Reached the Big Leagues with Power.

Young Ted Williams Reached the Big Leagues with Power.

This is the kind of baseball list that is always going to be arguable. The nine guys I’ve chosen, based only upon data from their first full rookie seasons, and not always relying upon the highest rookie BA stats as the bottom line on my choices, just happen to be my list of rookie  picks.

Who are your all time rookie picks by the 9 starting positions in the field? I ventured no guess on my  all time favorite DH – simply because  I do not have one,

As straghtfoward and unimportant as they are, here are my …

ALL ROOKIE STARTERS

ROOKIE POSITION TEAM YEAR GAMES AB H HR OBP BA
Mike Piazza Catcher Dodgers 1993 149 547 174 35 .370 .318
Albert Pujols 1st base Cardinals 2001 161 590 194 37 .403 .329
Napoleon Lajoie 2nd Base Athletics 1897 127 545 197 9 .392 .361
RonSanto 3rd Base Cubs 1961 154 578 164 23 .362 .284
DerekJeter Shortstop Yankees 1996 157 582 183 10 .370 .314
Ted Williams Left Field Red Sox 1939 149 565 185 31 .436 .327
Joe DiMaggio Center Field Yankees 1936 138 637 206 29 .352 .323
StanMusial RightField Cardinals 1942 140 467 147 10 .397 .315
ROOKIE STARTER ERA TEAM YEAR WON LOST W% CG SO BB
Mark Fidrych 2.34 Tigers 1976 19 9 .679 24 97 53

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One Response to “My All Rookie Starters”

  1. Cliff Blau's avatar Cliff Blau Says:
    May 12, 2014 at 9:57 pm | Reply

    Going by BB-Reference.com’s WAR (and leaving out the Federal League), it would be:
    1B Dave Orr 1884
    2B Cupid Childs 1890 (or if you want to leave out the weak AA of that year, Lou Klein 1943; Lajoie didn’t qualify as a rookie in 1897 by current standards. He’d beat out Childs.)
    SS Bobby Grich 1972, Donie Bush 1909
    3B Dick Allen 1964
    LF Mitchell Page 1977, Frank Robinson 1956 (Ted Williams played RF as a rookie)
    CF Fred Lynn 1975
    RF Joe Jackson 1911
    C Carlton Fisk 1972
    P Kid Nichols 1890

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