If you look predominantly at Wins and Losses than you have to wonder why someone with a record of 94 and 125 is so high on this list, but we are a lot smarter than we used to be in regards to those two stats then we used to be and even back in the 1890’s baseball fans knew that Theodore Breitenstein was a very good Pitcher.

Taking over the Centerfield job from Willie McGee, Ray Lankford would have a good career with the St. Louis Cardinals where he had 1,479 Hits showing off a nice blend of power and speed.  Lankford had six seasons of 20 or more Stolen Bases and also had the same amount of 20 Home Run Seasons with 250 and 228 in total in those to categories for the Redbirds.  The National League leader in Triples in 1991 and 1997 All-Star had three top ten finishes in Offensive bWAR but his rank is lowered to his high amount of Strikeouts.

Lankford entered the Cardinals Hall of Fame in 2018.

A very popular player for the St. Louis Cardinals, Willie McGee was a former First Round Draft Pick who the Redbirds pretty much stole from the New York Yankees on a 1981 trade for Bob Sykes, who never pitched in the Majors again.  McGee would win the starting Centerfielder job in his rookie year (1982) and he would shine on the national stage where he helped the Cards win the World Series. 

The story of Max Lanier is one of the more interesting ones on this list, which certainly says something considering the colorful characters that have populated the St. Louis Cardinals!