Carlos Beltrán – Weak Yes
Andruw Jones – Weak No
Chase Utley – No
Alex Rodriguez – Strong Yes
Manny Ramirez – Strong Yes
Andy Pettitte – No
Félix Hernández – Weak No
Bobby Abreu – No
Jimmy Rollins – Weak No
Omar Vizquel – Weak No
Dustin Pedroia – No ?
Mark Buehrle – No
Francisco Rodríguez – No
David Wright – No
Torii Hunter – Weak No
Cole Hamels – No
Ryan Braun – No
Alex Gordon – No
Shin-Soo Choo – No
Edwin Encarnación – No
Howie Kendrick – No
Nick Markakis – No
Hunter Pence – No
Gio Gonzalez – No
Matt Kemp – No
Daniel Murphy – No
Rick Porcello – No
I’ve added strong and weak to a few this year. The weak ones I could be probably convinced to switch my vote or might change it with a different set of options.
If my vote counted, I would hate to actually vote against Pedroia, he was one of my favorite players and had a HOF-trajectory career that was cut short by injury.
Where I’m going against the grain: Jones was very good, but just not best-of-the-best. Utley was very popular, but had a few good years early in his career. Pettitte was a reliable workhorse. Both had one meaningful league-leading stat in their whole career, but if they were on small market teams we’d barely remember them.
Hernández just doesn’t quite make the cut for me, along with Hunter. Rollins and Vizquel are tough calls because they were both good contributors, great defenders, and important pieces of their teams.