ESPN’s Top 100 MLB players of all-time has already created some intriguing conversations. As it was intended to do. The list was generated by a polling dozens of ESPN baseball editors and writers. Several Dodgers made the list, including Clayton Kershaw. Kershaw was listed 52nd.
ESPN’s de facto baseball historians, Tim Kurkjian and Buster Olney, strongly believe that Kershaw’s final ranking is muchtoo low.
On his Baseball Tonight podcast, Olney kept it short and sweet.
“Clayton Kershaw at 52. I saw that and said, ‘Uh-uh’. He’s a lot better than that.