Top 60 All-Time Jays: #8 Roberto Alomar
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Roberto Alomar | 2B | 1991-1995
Roberto Alomar was born February 5, 1968, in Ponce, Puerto Rico. His father
Sandy Alomar had a 15-year career in the major leagues as a middle infielder for several teams and has been a coach for many teams. . His brother
Sandy Alomar, Jr. was a major league catcher for 20 years and was acting manager for
Cleveland, in
Roberto was signed as an amateur free agent by the
San Diego Padres as players born in Puerto Rico weren’t eligible for the draft.
The Padres called him up in mid-April of 1988 to take over at second base from
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Top 60 All-Time Greatest Blue Jays: #18 George Bell
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George Bell was born October 21, 1959, in
San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic. His brother Juan Bell also made the majors and was a utility infielder for seven seasons for several different teams. He has two other brothers that played professional baseball. George was signed as an amateur free agent by the
Phillies in 1978. The
Blue Jays picked him up in the 1980 rule 5 draft, one of the best Rule 5 pickups ever.
Rule 5 draft pickups have to spend the season on the major league roster or get offered back their original team, so George played with the Jays in the strike-shortened 1981 season. He didn’t do terribly, though he was a little overmatched at the major league level; he got into 60 games and hit .233/.256/.350. Somehow, he got a couple of Rookie of the Year votes. The
Top 60 All-Time Greatest Blue Jays: #20 Joe Carter
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Joseph Chris Carter | RF, LF, 1B | 1991-1997
This is the one I cheated on. Most of the other guys are with a few spots of where they landed on the little formula I use. Joe, well, he ended up nearer the back of the list. But I decided I’d put him here as kind of an honorary spot. I made a ‘Joe Carter’ rule, zeroing out seasons where a player had a negative WAR, figuring a player shouldn’t be better off not to play than to play badly. But it didn’t move Joe up as far as I thought it might, even with bonuses for playoff performances.