The Giants Franchise Deep Six

And already we have another one! For some reason I got through the Giants pretty quickly. I guess they had so much depth that I didn't feel the need to agonize about the exact rankings as much. For less-deep teams, you have to nitpick which player is less mediocre than the other. Let's see how the Giants come out:

	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF
1st	Christy Mathewson	Buck Ewing	Roger Connor	Jeff Kent	Art Devlin	Art Fletcher	Barry Bonds	Willie Mays	Mel Ott
2nd	Amos Rusie	Buster Posey	Willie McCovey	Frankie Frisch	Matt Williams	George Davis	George Burns	George Van Haltren	Bobby Bonds
3rd	Carl Hubbell	Roger Bresnahan	Bill Terry	Larry Doyle	Jim Ray Hart	Travis Jackson	Monte Irvin	Bobby Thomson	Mike Tiernan
4th	Juan Marichal	Chief Meyers	Johnny Mize	Robby Thompson	Freddie Lindstrom	Dave Bancroft	Kevin Mitchell	Brett Butler	Jack Clark
5th	Mickey Welch	Tom Haller	Will Clark	Danny Richardson	Pablo Sandoval	Al Dark	Jo-Jo Moore	Benny Kauff	Ross Youngs
6th	Tim Keefe	Harry Danning	Orlando Cepeda	Ron Hunt	Hank Thompson	Dick Bartell	Gary Matthews	Fred Snodgrass	Felipe Alou

First base and pitcher were the truly outstanding positions here. Right field and shortstop weren't too shabby either.

While Frankie Frisch and George Davis were greater players than Jeff Kent and Art Fletcher, respectively, they ended up on the 2nd team due to the fact that their resumes at those positions as members of the Giants weren't quite as good. Frisch spent a lot of his best years with the Cardinals, and Davis his with the White Sox.

Left field and center field were impressive for the dropoffs after the 1st Team. It's not just that the guys on the 1st Team were each arguably the greatest ever at their position (though that helped), but that Georges Burns and Van Haltren were not even borderline greats.

As with several other franchises we've seen so far, we have an active player working his way toward the top at one position. Can Buster Posey eventually become the Giants' #1 all-time catcher? He'll have to keep producing for several more years, but it's hardly out of the question.