The Greatest Fantasy Baseball Team Ever

The Greatest Fantasy Team, Ever.

Recently a friend of mine who I have played fantasy sports with for almost 10 years now suggested that we should do an "all-time fantasy baseball league." The rules are simple, you can draft any player from any year. You may only use a single season of theirs and no season before 1910 can be used. Using a standard 5x5 scoring system, this is the best I could come up with after digging around for about an hour. It is probably not perfect, but I think it could hold its own against just about anything. Interestingly I would have liked to use Alex Rodriguez at both SS and 3B but that does not work according to the rules unfortunately.

C Mike Piazza 1997 - The best hitting catcher's best season
1B Lou Gehrig 1931 - 163 runs, 184 RBI, just wow
2B Rogers Hornsby 1922 - Chosen instead of his .424 season due to better across the board stats
3B George Brett 1980 - Weakest season on the list, Schmidt never had enough batting average
SS Alex Rodriguez 1998 - A-Rod's incredible 40-40 season
LF Barry Bonds 2001 - 73 HR's and the other stats aren't bad either
CF Ty Cobb 1911 - .420 AVG, 83 steals beats out tons of amazing contenders
RF Babe Ruth 1921 - The greatest player's greatest season, an easy choice

SP Pedro Martinez 1999 - Who cares if it was an offensive era, he was that good
SP Walter Johnson 1913 - 36 W's, 1.14 ERA, 0.78 WHIP for The Big Train
SP Bob Gibson 1968 - The best season from modern baseball's most pitching dominated year
SP Pete Alexander 1915 - Often forgotten superstar nearly matches Johnson's 1913
SP Sandy Koufax 1965 - 382 K's highlight this amazing season

RP Eric Gagne 2003 - 55 saves, 137 K's, 1.20 ERA, 0.69 WHIP = best fantasy closer season ever
RP Dennis Eckersley 1990 - 0.61 ERA, 0.61 WHIP... no, seriously
RP Trevor Hoffman 1998 - Should retire with most saves ever, this was his peak

There are really so many great years I've left out, but looking through a fantasy lens, this is what I have come up with. I may go back and try and determine what the best team would be in real life as opposed to fantasy at some point, but that is a project for another day.