Top Player by Team

Night Owl did a Top player for each team and that made me curious about the teams that I have that weren't Mets (Strawberry), Phillies (Kruk), Cubs (Sandberg), and Pirates (McCutchen).  Those are all very easy for me to know. Granted, my collection is much, much smaller than Greg's: 119,048 items (his) to 17,156 items (mine, as of 3 April)... 

For the record, I am not combining Expos and Nationals. That's stupid. And I also won't be combining Indians and Guardians. They'll each get their own count. I'm not sure if I'm totally 100% accurate in all this; for example some of the airbrushed unlicensed cards might not have the team affiliated with them for some cards. I can't worry about that. Nor can I worry too much if I stumbled on the wrong, for example, Blue Jays player. 

1. New York Mets: Darryl Strawberry 820

2. Chicago Cubs: Ryne Sandberg 450

3. Philadelphia Phillies: John Kruk 296

4. Los Angeles Dodgers: Darryl Strawberry 272

5. New York Yankees Darryl Strawberry 81

6. San Diego Padres: John Kruk 80

7. Kansas City Royals George Brett 78

8. Pittsburgh Pirates Andrew McCutchen 75

9. Baltimore Orioles Cal Ripken Jr. 34

10, Houston Astros: Nolan Ryan 34

11. Milwaukee Brewers: Robin Yount 29

12. Chicago White Sox: Carlton Fisk 26

13. Detroit Tigers: Alan Trammell 26

14. St. Louis Cardinals Ozzie Smith 24


15. Atlanta Braves: Dale Murphy 23

16. Boston Red Sox: Wade Boggs 22

17. Cincinnati Reds: Pete Rose 22

18. Los Angeles Angels: Rod Carew 22

19. Toronto Blue Jays: Gorge/Jorge Bell 22

20. Oakland A's: Rickey Henderson 21

21. Minnesota Twins: Kirby Puckett 18

22. Texas Rangers: Nolan Ryan 13

23. Seattle Mariners: Ken Griffey Jr. 13

24. San Francisco Giants: Will Clark 12

25. Cleveland Guardians: Jose Ramirez 10

26. Tampa Bay Rays: Ji-Man Choi 6


27. Washington Nationals: Bryce Harper 11

These are hardly worth noting, but...

28. Colorado Rockies: Nolan Arenado 4

29. Arizona Diamondbacks: Paul Goldschmidt 4

30. Miami Marlins: Dee Strange-Gordon 2



Honorable Mention: Selective Dead Teams

Montreal Expos: Tim Raines 28

Cleveland Indians: Andre Thornton/Brook Jacoby 10


Milwaukee Braves: Hank Aaron 7

Washington Senators: Eddie Yost 2

Seattle Pilots: Mike Marshall


I think these are all right. Don't hold it against me if any are wrong.

Thanks for stopping by!

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