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Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for March 28:

1) Lon Warneke (1909)
A five-time All-Star and seven-time MVP vote-getter, Warneke won the 1932 NL ERA Title and led the league in wins that season while with the Cubs, as part of a 15-year career that he spent in Chicago and St. Louis. He ended his career with 192 wins and three pennants with the Cubs -- in 1932, '35 and '45. He even hit .300 or higher in two seasons, 1933 (.300 exact) and 1938 (.324).

After his playing career, he would go on to work as an umpire in the Pacific Coast League and National League, including in the 1952 All-Star Game and the '54 World Series. In 1938, he committed an error in a September game but did not commit another error for the next 221 games (six seasons) -- a then-record for a pitcher.

2) Glenn Davis (1961)
Drafted by the Astros in 1981, Davis played most of his career in Houston before finishing out the final three seasons of his run with the Orioles. A two-time All-Star, three-time MVP vote-getter and the 5th-place finisher for NL Rookie of the Year in 1985, Davis fell just short of the 200-homer mark with 190 in his career, the most of any player to not hit a grand slam in the Majors. In 1996, while playing for the Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball, he became the 10th player in NPB history to hit a walk-off grand slam.

3) Mark Melancon (1985)
The main highlight of Melancon's 14-year career was his Major League leading 51-save season in 2015 while with the Pirates, netting him the Trevor Hoffman Award for best reliever in the NL. A four-time All-Star, Melancon also received NL Cy Young Award votes for that '15 campaign, finishing eighth. At age 36 in 2021, he led the Majors again with 39 saves while with the Padres. He won a World Series ring with the 2009 Yankees, although he did not appear in the Fall Classic. In his spare time, he runs a small, custom landscaping company with his brother-in-law.

4) Jimmy Barrett (1875)
A left-handed-hitter who spent time in Detroit, Cincinnati (two separate stints) and Boston, Barrett led the AL with a .407 OPS in 1903 and twice led the league in walks. Due to ties that were replayed in 1904, he was the first player in the Majors to play 162 games in a season, despite there only being 154 scheduled games that year.

5) Will Smith (1995)
Smith has already made a name for himself in his short career, with 91 homers in his first five seasons. But, more importantly, he also already sports a World Series win, with the Dodgers in 2020, and he earned his first All-Star nod in '23. Smith should be in Los Angeles for the long haul after agreeing to a 10-year extension just prior to his 29th birthday.

Others of note:
Vic Raschi (1919)
A career Yankee, besides short stints with the Cardinals and Kansas City Athletics at the tail end of his career, Raschi led the Majors in strikeouts in 1951, with 164 over an AL-leading 34 starts that season. He was a four-time All-Star and won six World Series over his 10 years in the Majors, as well as receiving MVP votes in five seasons.

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