The best baseball players born on Nov. 28

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Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Nov. 28.

1) Matt Williams (1965)
A five-time NL All-Star with four top-10 finishes in MVP voting during the 90s, Williams was one of the prominent sluggers of the final decade of the century. The grandson of 1920s Brooklyn Dodgers player Bert Griffith, he outdid his grandfather with a 17-season career with San Francisco (which drafted him third overall in 1986), Cleveland and Arizona (where he would finally win a World Series, in 2001). Williams was the NL home run leader in 1994 with 43 in 112 games, with a shot to break Roger Maris' then single-season record of 61 before the season was cut short due to a player strike. Williams is the only player to hit a home run in the World Series for three teams.

2) Sixto Lezcano (1953)
Lezcano won the first Gold Glove in Brewers history, in 1979, which was also the year that earned him a 15th-place finish in AL MVP voting. The right-handed-hitting outfielder slugged 148 homers in his dozen years in the Majors, the majority of which were spent with the Brewers, but which also included stints with the Cardinals, Padres, Phillies and Pirates. He is also the first MLB player to have hit a grand slam on two Opening Days.

3) Dave Righetti (1958)
Originally drafted by the Rangers in 1977, Dave "Rags" Righetti eventually made his MLB debut for the Yankees in '79 and was named the AL Rookie of the Year in 1981, notching 30-save seasons in 1984, '86, '87 and '90 after a shift to the bullpen. His most prominent achievement was his 1983 no-hitter against the rival Red Sox, the first for New York since Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series. A July 4th feat, he told the New York Times' Murray Chass that he originally went blank after the final out, before thinking "Oh, geez!" when he saw his catcher, Butch Wynegar, coming towards the mound. He was the first player, later to be joined by Dennis Eckersley and Derek Lowe, to throw a no-hitter and also at one point lead the league in saves (which Righetti did with 46 in 1986).

4) Pedro Astacio (1968)
The right-hander played with eight teams across a 15-year career, but most notably with Colorado, where Astacio held the record for most career strikeouts by a Rockie (749) from 2001 until it was broken by Ubaldo Jiménez a decade later. He was also the first Rockies pitcher to have a 200-strikeout season. Astacio threw a 10-K shutout in his MLB debut, with the Dodgers in 1992, and would go on to toss three more shutouts before his rookie campaign was over.

5) John Burkett (1964)
Along with a 15-year career during which he pitched 2,648 1/3 innings with five teams, Burkett was once known as "baseball's best bowler." He has bowled 32 perfect games, competed in Professional Bowlers Association events during his career and won an event on the senior tour in retirement.

Others of note

Walt Weiss (1963)
Weiss won Rookie of the Year with the A's in 1988, but would go on to make an unfortunate error in Game 4 of that year's Fall Classic and the Dodgers took the series. However, he won a ring with Oakland the next year in the "Earthquake Series." He suffered a brutal leg injury in 1991, but played for nine more years after that event.

Heinie Peitz (1870)
A turn-of-the-century player, Peitz played 1,234 games total with St. Louis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. He also shook things up by umpiring a trio of games during his career. And, let's be honest, he has a cool old-timey name that really rolls off the tongue in a great way. So that's mostly why he's notable here.

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