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5. Walter Johnson

Walter "Big Train" Johnson is the best pitcher ever to walk on the mound. He has 412 wins, led the league in strikeouts 12 times, and pitched over 6,000 innings. Longetivity combined with skill easily equals one of the best to ever play the game.

4. Barry Bonds

Not many will look past the steroids accusations to put him on this type of list and fewer still will put him this high but come on, the guy deserves it because roids or no roids, the guy is a beast. The combination of speed, power (possibly enhanced) and natural ability is what gets him on the list. The allegations, lack of team hardware and a weak arm keeps him from cracking the top three.

3. Honus Wagner

Known as "The Flying Dutchman", Honus Wagner was a monster at the plate. He led the league in hitting eight times and led the league in slugging 6 times. In 1908, Honus led the league in batting average, on-base percentage, hits, total bases, doubles, triples, runs batted in and stolen bases.

2. Willie Mays

Perhaps most known for 'The Catch', an over the shoulder grab made in the 1954 World Series, Willie "The Say Hey Kid" kidd was one of the best defensive center fielders to ever play the game (with 12 straight Golden Gloves to back it up). But his greatness wasn't just limited to the field because this guy could hit with the best of them, as evidenced by his 650 career home runs. Mays truly was the total package.

1. Babe Ruth

Like Jim Brown was to running backs and Wayne Gretzky was to hockey, so is Babe Ruth to baseball...simply the best ever. 'The Bambino', as he was called, is easily the greatest overall player to play the game. Hit hitting was ahead of his time (he alone would frequently record more home runs himself than entire teams), and lets not forget that the guy was an above average pitcher as well. Granted, he was a tad wild on the plate, but that didn't stop him from never having a losing record as a pitcher.

I am gunna do the top 5 within the last 10 years
with 3 catagories top offensive, defensive and pitchers

Offensive

1.Albert Pujols- Dude hits for power and average and drives in runs
2.Prince Fielder- average is around 280 for his carreer and he is an rbi machine
3.Ryan Howard- Continues to get better 12 more rbis this year and thats 4 seasons with 130 plus
4.Alex Rodriguez- has hit 20 home runs or more in every full year he's played and has a carrer Battign Average of .300
5.Borry Bonds- Early career could hit and steal bases and was a good fielder, close to a .300 average hitter and drove in runs

Defensive

1.Derek Jeter- His rage and his ability to track down and take hits away are amazing- his cut off flip to home plate is one of the best plays ever
2. Tori Hunter- This man loves to track down fly balls and he never hesitates to go all out, great outfielder
3.Ichiro Suzuki- Great speed loves to take hits away from people dude can hit as well 9 yrs straight with 200 hits
4.Jimmy Rollins- He plays to win and plays hard every game
5.Ken Griffey Jr- Before he started getting hurt all the time he was an amazing centre fielder who had the ability to change a game

Pitchers

1.Greg Maddux 355-227
2. Roger Clemens 354-184
3.Randy Johnson 303-166
4. Tom Glavine 305- 203
5. Pedro martinez 219-99

Your list sucks.

Old School Retro

1. Willie Mays
2. Sandy Koufax
3. Hank Aaron
4. Babe Ruth
5. Ted Williams


90s to Now

1. Barry Bonds
2. Greg Maddux
3. Manny Ramirez
4. Randy Johnson
5. Pedro Martinez

Next Generation

1. Albert Pujols
2. Joe Mauer
3. Hanley Ramirez
4. Tim Lincecum
5. Prince Fielder

Do the Phillies realistically have any chance of beating of the Yankees? I can't see it happening personally but then I know very little about baseball.