Our All-Time Top 50 Kansas City Royals have been revised to reflect the 2023 Season
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity. As such, we are very happy to present our post 2023 revision of our top 50 Kansas City Royals.
As for all of our top 50 players in baseball we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in Major League Baseball.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.
Last year, the Royals had a bad year, and there were no new entrants into the Top 50. There was one small elevation.
As always, we present our top five, which saw no changes:
1. George Brett
4. Kevin Appier
5. Amos Otis
You can find the entire list here.
Catcher, Salvador Perez, moved up one spot to #7.
Pitcher, Zack Greinke, who was with Kansas City last year, failed to move up from #13.
We thank you for your continued support for our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.
Our All-Time Top 50 Kansas City Royals have been updated to reflect the 2022 Season
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity. As such, we are very happy to present our post 2022 revision of our top Kansas City Royals.
As for all of our top 50 players in baseball we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in the American League.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.
Last year, the Royals were unable to make the playoffs, but there were some shifts in the top 50.
As always, we present our top five, which was not affected by the last season:
1. George Brett
4. Kevin Appier
5. Amos Otis
You can find the entire list here.
Catcher, Salvador Perez, moved up from #10 to #8.
Pitcher, Zack Greinke, moved up one spot to #13.
We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.
Our All-Time Top 50 Arizona Diamondbacks have been revised
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity. As such, we are very happy to present the first revision of our top 50 Arizona Diamondbacks of all-time.
As for all of our top 50 players in baseball we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National League.
This is the first revision since we put up this list after the 2018 Season.
The complete list can be found here, but as always we announce our top five in this article. They are:
3. Brandon Webb
We slightly altered one of our algorithms and that has led to some slight changes to past Diamondbacks. This altered the top five slightly, as Curt Schilling and Luis Gonzalez traded their fourth and fifth rank.
There were a few significant jumps. Zack Grienke, who was traded during the 2019 Season to Houston, rose from #10 to #6. Ketel Marte went from #44 to #13. This shocked us too, but again, we are reminded that a top five MVP season in a team as young as the Diamondbacks can do that. Starting Pitcher, Robbie Ray, moved from #20 to #16. Third Baseman, Jake Lamb, climbed from #30 to #26. Relief Pitcher, Archie Bradley went from #48 to #40.
We have several new entries. Nick Ahmed debuts at #20. While this seems like a seismic debut for the Shortstop, we erroneously left him off of our first list, of which he would have been on. Venezuelan Infielder, Eduardo Escobar makes his first appearance at #43. He joined the Diamondbacks during the 2018 season on a trade from Minnesota. Lefthanded Relief Pitcher, Andrew Chafin comes in at #44.
We welcome your input and commentsand as always, we thank you for your support.
8. Zack Greinke
Zack Greinke was with the Arizona Diamondbacks for only three and a half years, but in that time, he showcased skills that helped him win the Cy Young Award as a Kansas City Royal in 2009.
Arriving in 2016 as a Free Agent, Greinke was named an All-Star in 2017, where he also finished 4th in Cy Young voting. He repeated as an All-Star in 2018, and in '17 and ’18, he ranked in the top ten in the NL in bWAR for Pitchers and WHIP. Grienke was again an All-Star in 2019, but shortly afterward, he was traded to the Houston Astros for their playoff run.
With overall Diamondback numbers of 55-29 and 683 Strikeouts, Grienke's rank is also aided by the fact that he was an excellent fielder and a good hitter for a Pitcher, who had a .230 Batting Average with Arizona.
The surgically precise professor of pitching was outstanding while a Diamondback, and Arizona fans could only imagine what it would have been like to have had the hurler for a longer time.