MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
POSITIONAL STRENGTH OVERVIEW BY POSITIONS
08/27/1888
 
CATCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Philadelphia Athletics Jocko Milligan 1st George Townsend 8th 2nd
Cincinnati Red Stockings King Kelly 2nd Farmer Vaughn 6th 1st
Philadelphia Quakers Buck Ewing 3rd Warren Snyder 5th 7th
Boston Beaneaters Jim H O'Rourke 4th Tom O'Rourke 9th 8th
Louisville Colonels Tom P Daly 5th 11th(tied) 11th
Baltimore Orioles Joe Visner 6th Ned Bligh 10th 9th
St. Louis Browns Joe Flynn 7th 11th(tied) 12th
Indianapolis Hoosiers Doug Stonefield 8th Pete Sommers 7th 10th
Chicago White Stockings Charlie Bennett 9th 11th(tied) 13th
Pittsburgh Alleghenys Fleet Walker 10th Tom Quinn 1st(tied) 3rd
Detroit Wolverines Charles Zimmer 11th Lou Hardie 1st(tied) 4th
New York Giants William Brown 12th 11th(tied) 14th
Kansas City Cowboys Charlie Hoover 13th Troy Ure 1st(tied) 5th
Brooklyn Bridegrooms Dell Darling 14th 11th(tied) 15th
Washington Nationals Connie Mack 15th Jim Thomas 1st(tied) 6th
Cleveland Blues Jack K O'Brien 16th 11th(tied) 16th
FIRST BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Philadelphia Quakers Roger Connor 1st 1st(tied) 1st
Boston Beaneaters Dan Brouthers 2nd 1st(tied) 2nd
Kansas City Cowboys Denny Lyons 3rd 1st(tied) 3rd
Baltimore Orioles Tommy Tucker 4th 1st(tied) 4th
Cincinnati Red Stockings John Reilly 5th 1st(tied) 5th
Chicago White Stockings Jimmy Ryan 6th 1st(tied) 6th
Washington Nationals Fred Carroll 7th 1st(tied) 7th
Indianapolis Hoosiers Henry Moore 8th 1st(tied) 8th
Brooklyn Bridegrooms Dave Orr 9th 1st(tied) 9th
Detroit Wolverines Jack Rowe 10th 1st(tied) 10th
New York Giants Guy Hecker 11th 1st(tied) 11th
Pittsburgh Alleghenys Jake Beckley 12th 1st(tied) 12th
Philadelphia Athletics Henry Larkin 13th 1st(tied) 13th
Cleveland Blues George Pinkney 14th 1st(tied) 14th
Louisville Colonels Al Maul 15th 1st(tied) 15th
St. Louis Browns Hick Carpenter 16th 1st(tied) 16th
SECOND BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Cincinnati Red Stockings Cap Anson 1st Brian Evans 4th 3rd
Boston Beaneaters Bid McPhee 2nd Billy Klusman 9th 5th
Detroit Wolverines Yank Robinson 3rd Parson Nicholson 8th 4th
Cleveland Blues Fred Dunlap 4th Raynard Brown 5th 7th
Philadelphia Athletics Lou Bierbauer 5th Doug Seale 3rd 6th
Louisville Colonels Hub Collins 6th B.J. Waddle 7th 8th
St. Louis Browns Matthias Brown 7th 12th(tied) 11th
New York Giants Iulian Burcin 8th Roger Carey 11th 10th
Kansas City Cowboys Charley Bassett 9th 12th(tied) 12th
Philadelphia Quakers Ed Delahanty 10th Cupid Childs 1st(tied) 1st
Pittsburgh Alleghenys Jeff Moe 11th Shane Dell'Aquila 6th 9th
Chicago White Stockings Candy Nelson 12th 12th(tied) 14th
Washington Nationals Charlie Bastian 13th Harry Decker 1st(tied) 2nd
Baltimore Orioles Alex Jones 14th George Mappes 10th 13th
Brooklyn Bridegrooms Lukas Haider 15th 12th(tied) 15th
Indianapolis Hoosiers Walter Hackett 16th 12th(tied) 16th
THIRD BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Philadelphia Quakers Billy Nash 1st 9th(tied) 5th
Detroit Wolverines Billy Shindle 2nd 9th(tied) 6th
Philadelphia Athletics Monte Ward 3rd Acón Cruz 5th 2nd
Brooklyn Bridegrooms Arlie Latham 4th Ed Flynn 7th 3rd
Cincinnati Red Stockings Jumbo Davis 5th 9th(tied) 8th
Washington Nationals Chippy McGarr 6th John McGlone 1st 1st
Chicago White Stockings Tom Burns 7th Justin Healey 4th 4th
Kansas City Cowboys Jerry Denny 8th 9th(tied) 10th
New York Giants Art Whitney 9th John Rainey 3rd 7th
Indianapolis Hoosiers Nehemías Sandoval 10th 9th(tied) 12th
Cleveland Blues Jim Donnelly 11th Dick Van Zant 8th 11th
Boston Beaneaters Irv Ray 12th Lorenzo Rivera 2nd 9th
St. Louis Browns Raimundo Zavala 13th 9th(tied) 14th
Louisville Colonels Phil Tomney 14th 9th(tied) 15th
Pittsburgh Alleghenys Gus Alberts 15th Pete McShannic 6th 13th
Baltimore Orioles Jerry McCormick 16th 9th(tied) 16th
SHORTSTOPS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Detroit Wolverines Jack Glasscock 1st Tom Sexton 3rd 2nd
Chicago White Stockings Hugh Duffy 2nd William Rhodes 2nd 1st
Baltimore Orioles Mike Griffin 3rd 5th(tied) 5th
Philadelphia Athletics Frank Fennelly 4th Curt Brletich 1st 3rd
Cincinnati Red Stockings Heinie Kappel 5th 5th(tied) 6th
New York Giants Danny Richardson 6th 5th(tied) 7th
Louisville Colonels Germany Smith 7th Frank Scheibeck 4th 4th
Philadelphia Quakers Fred Pfeffer 8th 5th(tied) 8th
Indianapolis Hoosiers Joe A Miller 9th 5th(tied) 9th
Kansas City Cowboys John Morrill 10th 5th(tied) 10th
Cleveland Blues Joseph Herr 11th 5th(tied) 11th
Pittsburgh Alleghenys Bill White 12th 5th(tied) 12th
Boston Beaneaters Paul Radford 13th 5th(tied) 13th
Washington Nationals Shorty Fuller 14th 5th(tied) 14th
Brooklyn Bridegrooms Henry Easterday 15th 5th(tied) 15th
St. Louis Browns Denny Mack 16th 5th(tied) 16th
LEFT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
New York Giants Harry Stovey 1st 5th(tied) 2nd
Philadelphia Athletics Charley Jones 2nd 5th(tied) 4th
Indianapolis Hoosiers Darby O'Brien 3rd 5th(tied) 5th
Cleveland Blues Ed McKean 4th 5th(tied) 7th
Detroit Wolverines Hardy Richardson 5th Cirilo Carrasco 1st 1st
Chicago White Stockings Oyster Burns 6th 5th(tied) 8th
Cincinnati Red Stockings George Tebeau 7th 5th(tied) 9th
Louisville Colonels Farmer Weaver 8th Brad Lewis 3rd 3rd
St. Louis Browns Dave Foutz 9th 5th(tied) 10th
Brooklyn Bridegrooms Ed Swartwood 10th Timoteo Garibay 4th 6th
Boston Beaneaters Ezra Sutton 11th 5th(tied) 11th
Pittsburgh Alleghenys Ed Beecher 12th 5th(tied) 12th
Baltimore Orioles Ed Greer 13th 5th(tied) 13th
Kansas City Cowboys Cliff Carroll 14th 5th(tied) 14th
Philadelphia Quakers Ed Andrews 15th 5th(tied) 15th
Washington Nationals 16th Hernando Gamez 2nd 16th
CENTER FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
St. Louis Browns Curt Welch 1st 5th(tied) 3rd
Washington Nationals William Hoy 2nd 5th(tied) 4th
Cincinnati Red Stockings Pop Corkhill 3rd 5th(tied) 5th
Brooklyn Bridegrooms Jim McTamany 4th 5th(tied) 6th
Louisville Colonels Scott Stratton 5th 5th(tied) 7th
Kansas City Cowboys Jim Burns 6th 5th(tied) 8th
Boston Beaneaters Mike Slattery 7th 5th(tied) 11th
Chicago White Stockings Billy Sunday 8th 5th(tied) 12th
New York Giants Paul Hines 9th 5th(tied) 13th
Philadelphia Athletics Ananías Johnson 10th Sean Leslie 1st(tied) 1st
Indianapolis Hoosiers Evaristo Gago 11th Charlie Hall 4th 9th
Baltimore Orioles Law Daniels 12th (tied) 5th(tied) 14th(tied)
Pittsburgh Alleghenys Doggie Miller 12th (tied) 5th(tied) 14th(tied)
Detroit Wolverines Lou Sylvester 14th Ted Scheffler 3rd 10th
Philadelphia Quakers James Roseman 15th Ben Caracci 1st(tied) 2nd
Cleveland Blues Tom Loftus 16th 5th(tied) 16th
RIGHT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
New York Giants Mike Tiernan 1st Lefty Johnson 3rd 2nd
St. Louis Browns Bob Caruthers 2nd 5th(tied) 3rd
Philadelphia Athletics Pete Browning 3rd 5th(tied) 4th
Chicago White Stockings George Van Haltren 4th 5th(tied) 5th
Philadelphia Quakers Jim Fogarty 5th 5th(tied) 6th
Cincinnati Red Stockings Lefty Marr 6th 5th(tied) 7th
Pittsburgh Alleghenys Otto Schomberg 7th 5th(tied) 8th
Detroit Wolverines Sam Thompson 8th 5th(tied) 9th
Kansas City Cowboys Billy Hamilton 9th 5th(tied) 10th
Louisville Colonels Lave Cross 10th Ducky Hemp 1st 1st
Boston Beaneaters Sam Wise 11th 5th(tied) 11th
Indianapolis Hoosiers Mortimer Hogan 12th 5th(tied) 13th
Cleveland Blues Ned Hanlon 13th 5th(tied) 14th
Washington Nationals Fred Mann 14th 5th(tied) 15th
Brooklyn Bridegrooms Tom Poorman 15th Ed Silch 2nd 12th
Baltimore Orioles Charlie Ganzel 16th Jim Chatterton 4th 16th
STARTING PITCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Philadelphia Quakers Charlie J Ferguson 1st 4th(tied) 2nd
Brooklyn Bridegrooms James Burke 2nd John Sowders 1st 1st
Cincinnati Red Stockings Charlie Geggus 3rd 4th(tied) 5th
Louisville Colonels Toad Ramsey 4th 4th(tied) 6th
New York Giants Adonis Terry 5th Bill George 2nd 3rd
Philadelphia Athletics Phenomenal Smith 6th 4th(tied) 7th
St. Louis Browns Nat Hudson 7th 4th(tied) 8th
Detroit Wolverines Jack Jones 8th 4th(tied) 9th
Indianapolis Hoosiers Alex Voss 9th 4th(tied) 10th
Baltimore Orioles Matt Kilroy 10th 4th(tied) 11th
Washington Nationals Pete Conway 11th Bob Gilks 3rd 4th
Chicago White Stockings Bob Black 12th 4th(tied) 12th
Kansas City Cowboys Silver King 13th 4th(tied) 13th
Boston Beaneaters Jim Whitney 14th 4th(tied) 14th
Pittsburgh Alleghenys Jim Handiboe 15th 4th(tied) 15th
Cleveland Blues Bobby Mathews 16th 4th(tied) 16th
RELIEVERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Philadelphia Quakers Bill Vinton 1st Kid Gleason 13th 2nd
Washington Nationals Bob Gilks 2nd Doc Oberlander 1st 1st
Brooklyn Bridegrooms Laurie Reis 3rd Ed Knouff 4th(tied) 4th
Baltimore Orioles Bill Gallagher 4th Pat Whitaker 4th(tied) 5th
Chicago White Stockings Charlie Hodnett 5th Frank Dwyer 4th(tied) 6th
St. Louis Browns Joe E Brown 6th John Strike 3rd 3rd
Indianapolis Hoosiers Ed Conley 7th Rex Smith 4th(tied) 8th
Philadelphia Athletics Al Atkinson 8th Bob Gamble 4th(tied) 9th
Louisville Colonels Ed Keas 9th Bob Keating 16th 15th
New York Giants Frank Wyman 10th Wild Bill Widner 15th 14th
Cincinnati Red Stockings Lee Richmond 11th John Weyhing 4th(tied) 10th
Pittsburgh Alleghenys Ed Stratton 12th Kid Madden 4th(tied) 11th
Detroit Wolverines Jake Aydelott 13th Sam Shaw 2nd 7th
Kansas City Cowboys Hank Morrison 14th Bill Hart 4th(tied) 12th
Boston Beaneaters Thomas Lynch 15th Eric Hall 4th(tied) 13th
Cleveland Blues Bill Swarback 16th Bill Swarback 14th 16th
CLOSERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Philadelphia Quakers Bill Vinton 1st Kid Gleason 14th 14th
Louisville Colonels Jim Britt 2nd Bob Keating 16th 15th
Kansas City Cowboys Jack Neagle 3rd Bill Hart 5th(tied) 1st
St. Louis Browns Bert Dorr 4th John Strike 4th 2nd
Philadelphia Athletics Harry Staley 5th Bob Gamble 5th(tied) 4th
Boston Beaneaters J Fisher 6th Eric Hall 5th(tied) 5th
Chicago White Stockings Milo Lockwood 7th Frank Dwyer 5th(tied) 6th
Brooklyn Bridegrooms Laurie Reis 8th Ed Knouff 3rd 3rd
Baltimore Orioles Charlie Daniels 9th Pat Whitaker 5th(tied) 7th
Indianapolis Hoosiers John Cattanach 10th Rex Smith 5th(tied) 8th
Cincinnati Red Stockings Frank Mountain 11th John Weyhing 5th(tied) 9th
Detroit Wolverines Bill Smith 12th Sam Shaw 2nd 10th
Pittsburgh Alleghenys Frank Beck 13th Kid Madden 5th(tied) 11th
New York Giants Fred Goldsmith 14th Bill George 5th(tied) 13th
Cleveland Blues Bill Nelson 15th Bill Swarback 15th 16th
Washington Nationals Jim Egan 16th Bob Gilks 1st 12th
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