Count me in for Adam Everett for all time Stros D team. He wouldn’t be anywhere close for all time O though..
Carlos Correa is an amazing SS, but it's more than a little absurd for anybody to have him ahead of Adam Everett defensively. People still don't realize how all time great he was defensively.
I'd go with Verlander. Richard, Scott, and Cole may have had a better year, but Verlander has three of the best defensive seasons by a pitcher.
Yes really based on JUST Defense. I will give you Correa has the best arm. But fielding range and almost no errors? Everett hands down and it's not close.
Yes I understood that it was JUST defense. I watched both players a ton. If you want to say that Everett was the better defensive SS thats fine. But to call it “absurd” to put Correa there is a little dramatic. Nobody is absurdly better than Correa at SS. Its actually absurd to say that there is.
1 through 9, in their prime Keuchel (Greinke) Ausmus (Maldy) Bagwell (Yuli) Biggio (Doran) Caminiti (Rader) Everett (Correa) Cruz (somebody?) Cedeno (Bourn) Derek Bell (Tucker)
Doran was a better defensive 2B than Biggio. Not sure what the metrics say but Doran was better. I never saw Rader play a single game so I cannot say how he compares to Caminiti, Bregman. Walling etc. But then I am just going off legend for Cedeno myself.
And only us Astros fans know it (maybe some Twins/Det/Cleveland fans from his short time in those places). Didn't Bill James call him the best defensive SS of all time?
James was a huuuuuge AE fan I struggled on corner OFers when I make my list earlier...are there some I'm forgetting?