As a Minnesota guy, I’ve got to throw Kirby Puckett and Joe Mauer both into the mix. If it wasn’t for Kirby’s glaucoma and Mauer’s concussion, they’d both likely have reached insane numbers.
Mike Trout is on that trajectory, but hasn’t quite hit that yet.
Still, I gotta go with The Babe (What Babe? The Babe with the power… You can now hate me for getting that song stuck in your head).
The guy smoked cigars and ate hot dogs and was a formidable pitcher in his own right and STILL destroyed the other teams.
Pete Rose also has to be mentioned, but nobody knows how much corruption he caused and how inflated his numbers may or may not have been due to gambling and possible cheating.