Greatest Second Baseman - 1990's

[Stars_Rangers_82]

This thread will allow you to vote for who in your opinion feel is the greatest player at his position for a particular decade. The criteria I will be using is 1,000 games played for position players, 250 games started for SP's, and 400 appearances for relief pitcher's.

Here are the candidates for the 1990's Second Baseman, and the poll will be closed at 11:50 am CST on Tuesday, June 21st.

G R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG OPS WAR
Mickey Morandini 1172 556 1117 194 50 32 322 401 637 117 0.269 0.340 0.363 0.703 6.5
Mark McLemore 1037 565 959 143 27 29 342 504 533 136 0.264 0.353 0.342 0.695 10.0
Mark Lemke 1039 337 772 119 14 30 258 339 329 11 0.248 0.319 0.324 0.642 5.4
Chuck Knoblauch 1313 950 1533 271 59 78 523 672 580 335 0.298 0.388 0.419 0.807 41.3
Jeff Kent 1032 566 1032 233 18 161 668 297 770 49 0.276 0.335 0.477 0.812 23.2
Delino DeShields 1271 713 1272 178 63 62 428 605 864 393 0.269 0.353 0.373 0.726 16.2
Joey Cora 1030 596 972 163 39 30 280 351 309 101 0.280 0.350 0.375 0.725 5.0
Craig Biggio 1515 1042 1728 362 35 136 641 730 880 319 0.297 0.386 0.441 0.827 51.7
Carlos Baerga 1280 659 1400 246 17 124 686 253 511 52 0.291 0.330 0.427 0.757 15.8
Roberto Alomar 1421 951 1678 321 51 135 732 658 637 311 0.308 0.382 0.460 0.842 43.0


---------- Post added at 11:49 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:47 AM ----------

I have to think about this one myself for awhile, between Alomar and Biggio. They were both tremendous in this decade.

[astrosfanatic]

Needless to say, i voted for Craig Biggio. He made the move from Catcher to 2B in this decade and he turned out to be a pretty darn good one. If he didnt spend the entire decade in a home ballpark that LITERALLY sucks the power out of your bat, then his power numbers would have been even greater. He had to play defense on Astroturf for half his games, which i can only imagine makes it harder, and was still an above-average defender......Plus, he never spit in anyone's face :)

Go Biggio!!

[CoreyR]

Although I wanted to be a homer and choose Delino DeSheilds, but Craig Biggio gets my vote. He was fun to watch growing up as a kid. He was always a leader and good ball player. AF made a very good point, moving from C to 2B is a tough transition. Biggio excelled!

[RickD]

Biggio just seemes to have the edge here IMO. He was a great all-around player.

[Mudge]

Biggio actually played the first years of the 90's as a catcher! He didn't get to second base until 1992,

[Old Sweater]

Biggio barely ahead of Alomar.

[Scoobean]

For me it was between Biggio and Alomar. Both had very similiar offensive numbers, but Biggio was a bit better and they were both easily the best at there positions during this period for there respected leagues.