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Fielding an all-time Arizona Fall League team
- Updated: November 18, 2016
SURPRISE, Ariz. — It’s the 25th anniversary of the Arizona Fall League and, as is often the case, when a momentous time marker like that comes around, people like to talk big picture. For a silver anniversary, it seems fitting to look at who the best players in the history of the AFL have been.
Bowman Baseball Cards released a Top 25 all-time AFL players list — a solid list to get the conversation started.
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But what if you wanted to fill out a lineup card with the best to have ever come through the Fall League? With the success rate the league has had — more than 60 percent of the AFL’s alumni have gone on to the big leagues — there are multiple choices at each position. Here’s one entry for a best AFL lineup, basing it on Major League success, not performance in the Fall League.
C Mike Piazza, Sun Cities (1992): The first AFL alum to be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Piazza played in the AFL’s inaugural season. He had made his big league debut that year, then went on to win National League Rookie of the Year honors in 1993.
1B Albert Pujols, Scottsdale (2000): Pujols may have snuck up on people when he won a job out of Spring Training with the Cardinals in 2001, but had they known he’d been in the AFL the previous fall, perhaps it …
