{"id":102250,"date":"2025-08-28T02:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102250\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T02:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:40:10","slug":"every-mlb-franchises-mount-rushmore-of-outfielders-since-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102250\/","title":{"rendered":"Every MLB Franchise&#8217;s Mount Rushmore of Outfielders Since 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Mount Rushmore: Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. (2018-Present), Jason Heyward (2010-14), Andruw Jones (1996-2007) and David Justice (1989-96)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Brightest Star: Andruw Jones<br \/>.263\/.342\/.497, 368 HR, 1,117 RBI, 138 SB, <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jonesan01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">61.0 bWAR<\/a>, five-time All-Star, 10-time Gold Glove<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Save for Barry Bonds with the Giants and Mike Trout with the Angels, this was the most open and shut case of all. Jones was one of the greatest defenders\u2014quite possibly the greatest defensive center fielder\u2014to ever play the game, who also averaged 34.5 home runs and 103.4 RBI over his final 10 seasons in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Jason Heyward was also one heck of an asset on defense, but he only spent his first five seasons with Atlanta and was never anything close to the offensive machine that Jones was. Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr., though, has an OPS north of .900 in a career already featuring the 2018 NL ROY, the 2023 NL MVP and five All-Star Games. Had he been healthier over these past eight seasons, it&#8217;s surely a closer call for brightest star. 1990 NL ROY David Justice had some kind of run with Atlanta, too, posting an OPS north of .800 in each of his final seven seasons there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Toughest Omission: Ryan Klesko (1992-99)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Like Justice, Klesko had an OPS of at least .800 in each of his final seven seasons with Atlanta, but his peak was never quite as high, his lone All-Star Game appearance coming in 2001 while with San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mount Rushmore: Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. (2018-Present), Jason Heyward (2010-14), Andruw Jones (1996-2007) and David Justice (1989-96) Brightest Star:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-102250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}