{"id":105,"date":"2015-05-13T23:05:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T03:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2019-06-26T16:53:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T20:53:06","slug":"my-mlb-greatest-living-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"My MLB Greatest Living Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, Major League Baseball announced that, for the game&#8217;s 86th edition, they would have something known as a &#8220;Franchise Four&#8221; for each team; an opportunity for fans to vote for the four best players in each team franchise history. \u00a0There is also something that can be voted on that is known as &#8220;Greatest Living Players;&#8221; \u00a0the four best players in MLB history who are still alive. \u00a0To be honest, this was a fairly easy vote, as the candidates were Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Johnny Bench, Rickey Henderson, Sandy Koufax, Pedro Martinez, Willie Mays, and Tom Seaver. \u00a0Without further ado, here are my four greatest living players:<\/p>\n<p>Hank Aaron<\/p>\n<p>Sandy Koufax<\/p>\n<p>Willie Mays<\/p>\n<p>Tom Seaver<\/p>\n<p>Let me know what you think.<\/p>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)\n  })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');\n\n  ga('create', 'UA-62461709-1', 'auto');\n  ga('send', 'pageview');\n\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, Major League Baseball announced that, for the game&#8217;s 86th edition, they would have something known as a &#8220;Franchise Four&#8221; for each team; an opportunity for fans to vote for the four best players in each team franchise history. \u00a0There is also something that can be voted on that is known as &#8220;Greatest Living &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/?p=105\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My MLB Greatest Living Players&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679,6],"tags":[110,111,113,112],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","category-mlb","tag-hank-aaron","tag-sandy-koufax","tag-tom-seaver","tag-willie-mays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}