Perfect Score in Annual Player Rankings

Annual Player Rankings were created as part of the 1981 strike settlement and they are used during labor relations to decide whether ballplayers are Type A or Type B free agents and what draft picks their former team will get as compensation in the event they sign with a different team. The top thirty percent in each positional group are declared Type A players and the next twenty percent are Type B players. Since 1981 only six Major League players have earned a perfect score of one-hundred in the annual player rankings

"I thought it was going to hit the St. Louis arch. He's the best hitter in baseball. You've got to give him a tip of the cap. I wanted to go high-five him." - Pittsburgh Pirates Pitcher Ian Snell (AP Wire, 09/03/2006)

Annual Player Rankings

Perfect Scores

Year

Position

Player Name

Team

1987

1B

Don Mattingly

New York Yankees

1991

SS

Cal Ripken, Jr.

Baltimore Orioles

1995

1B

Frank Thomas

Chicago White Sox

1995

1B

Jeff Bagwell

Houston Astros

2002

DH

Manny Ramirez

Boston Red Sox

2006

1B

Albert Pujols

St. Louis Cardinals

2007

DH

David Ortiz

Boston Red Sox

Year

Position

Player Name

Team

Perfect Score in Annual Player Rankings



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The 100 / perfect score by Albert Pujols was only the sixth in Major League history and the fourth by a first baseman. How do the other positions, players & scores fair? Download the entire results for every player in history below:

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Did you know that one of the players from the chart above did not make the All-Star Game the year they achieved their perfect score? To find out who simply click each name and review their All-Star squads near the bottom right of each page.

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