The 2000's are heading into history.
As in all sports, fans love to know the opinion of who were the best players of the decade.
As Barry Bonds was the man in the 1990's, this decade was all property of Albert Pujols.
"El Hombre" from the St. Louis Cardinals his offensive numbers made all the talking hitting every year for at least a .300 average, 30 home runs and 100 runs batted in.
He was as good as a hitter, defensively as a first baseman and as a ball player off-the-field that it was a no brainer was MLB’s Player of the Decade.
Both The Sporting News and Sports Illustrated agreed with the latter.
Pujols was the king of the diamonds but there were other bunch of player that excels to their best through the decade.
Only Latino great names from the best of the best of the decade of the 1990’s around major league baseball are Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez and Omar Vizquel. Very possibly the duo will be future shoo-ins into the Hall of Fame.
Long gone are those great from the 90’s as Juan Gonzalez, Rafael Palmeiro, Sammy Sosa and Bernie Williams.
There is a great possibility Roberto Alomar and Edgar Martinez will be getting next January their enshrinement into Cooperstown.
As we are approaching the 2010’s this is a good time to select the All-Decade Latino Team for the 2000’s.
Our MLB’s Latino Decade Team 2000-2009:C-Jorge Posada;1B-Albert Pujols;2B-Placido Polanco;3B-Alex Rodriguez;SS-Miguel Tejada;OF-Carlos Beltran;OF-Vladimir Guerrero;OF-Manny Ramirez;SP: Bartolo Colon, Livan Hernandez, Pedro Martinez, Johan Santana, Javier Vazquez;RP: Mariano Rivera
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