2. The dominant Gen X era in baseball was roughly the mid-90s to mid-2000s. Albert Pujols would rank third; he might be at least an honorary Gen Xer, as his oft-disputed reported birth date (January 16, 1980) misses the cut by less than 3 weeks.
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3. The Gen X era in MLB will be remembered for the steroid scandal, the mainstreaming of Latin American stars, the arrival of Asian ballplayers, the 1994 strike, interleague play, the Wild Card. A tumultuous time in the game, but one that produced a lot of great baseball.
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4. WAR, of course, is not definitive in ranking the best players, but it's a useful tool for organizing; any list of the greats will be mostly the same people in mostly the same order.
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Amazing with Maddux, Glavine, and Chipper so high up there that those great 90s Braves teams only won 1 World Series.
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Andruw & Smoltz, too!
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Forgot Randy Johnson was a little bit older.
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Took a while for him. Yeah, he's in the late-Boomer generation with Bonds, Clemens, Gooden, McGwire.
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You SOB, Gen X end in early-mid 1981, or more exactly the day after I was born in 1980.
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In related news, The Rich are anyone who makes a dollar more than me. Who's the closest baseball star to your birthdate? Mine is Pedro Martinez, who is 2 weeks younger than me.
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Lofton was better than Vizquel & Belle.
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