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Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Nov. 18.

1) David Ortiz (1975)
One of the most clutch performers in postseason history and one of the greatest designated hitters in baseball history, the 2022 Hall of Fame inductee was at the center of the Red Sox's improbable run to a World Series championship in 2004. He also helped Boston win it all again in '07 and '13. He was the MVP of the 2004 American League Championship Series, in which Boston overcame a 3-0 series deficit to defeat the archrival Yankees and move on to the World Series, where the Red Sox broke an 86-year championship drought with a sweep of the Cardinals. He was the MVP of the '13 World Series, a six-game victory over St. Louis. Overall, Ortiz launched 541 home runs to go along with a .931 career OPS in 20 Major League seasons.

2) Gary Sheffield (1968)
Sheffield was one of the most feared hitters in baseball for about a decade from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. With his iconic batting stance serving as a marker of impending doom for opposing pitchers, he smashed 509 career homers with a .907 OPS during a 22-year big league career. He helped the Marlins win their first World Series in 1997, hitting .320 with three homers during that postseason for Florida.

3) Dante Bichette (1963)
Bichette rose to prominence with the expansion Rockies in 1993, and emerged as one of the game's great sluggers in the 1990s. After hitting one of the most iconic home runs in Colorado history -- a walk-off shot to win the first game played at Coors Field -- Bichette went on to lead the NL in hits (197), homers (40), RBIs (128), slugging (.620) and total bases (359) in '95. He also led the Majors with 219 hits in '98. He finished his 14-year MLB career with a slash line of .299/.336/.499 (107 OPS+) with 274 home runs.

4) Jamie Moyer (1962)
Only Nolan Ryan (27) and Tommy John (26) pitched more seasons in the Majors than Moyer, who was the model of longevity over a career that spanned a quarter of a century from 1986-2012. The soft-tossing lefty posted a career ERA of 4.25 (103 ERA+) and took the mound for eight clubs -- the Cubs, Rangers, Cardinals, Orioles, Red Sox, Mariners, Phillies and Rockies. He helped Philadelphia win the 2008 World Series, pitching to a 3.71 ERA over 33 starts in the regular season (his age-45 campaign) and then turning in seven strong innings in Game 3 of that year's Fall Classic against the Rays, a 5-4 Phillies victory.

5) C.J. Wilson (1980)
Wilson was one of the best left-handed starters in baseball from 2010-13, when he posted a 3.37 ERA and was a two-time All-Star, helping the Rangers reach back-to-back World Series in 2010 and '11 before joining the Angels in '12. Overall, he pitched 11 seasons in the Majors, finishing with a 3.74 ERA.

Others of note:

Tom Gordon (1967)
Gordon, known as "Flash," pitched 21 seasons in the Majors and was a three-time All-Star. He was the runner-up in AL Rookie of the Year Award voting with the Royals in 1989, and led the AL in saves with 46 for the Red Sox in 1998. Two of his All-Star selections came in the twilight of his career -- he had one of the best seasons of his career for the Yankees in 2004, posting a 2.21 ERA over 80 relief appearances in his age-36 campaign, and he had 34 saves along with a 3.34 ERA for the Phillies two years later.

Jameson Taillon (1991)
Taillon was one of the Pirates' top prospects before making his MLB debut for Pittsburgh in 2016. Within two seasons, the right-hander was one of the better starters in the game, turning in a 3.20 ERA over 32 starts for the Bucs. But injury struck the following year, and Taillon missed the entire 2020 season while recovering from Tommy John surgery. The Yankees signed him after that, and after two seasons in New York, he signed with the Cubs.

Logan Webb (1996)
Webb had a breakout season in 2021, helping the Giants to a record 107 victories and dominating in the postseason. In 27 appearances (26 starts) during the regular season for San Francisco, the right-hander had a 3.03 ERA and 1.11 WHIP. In October, he dazzled in a pair of NL Division Series starts against the Dodgers, yielding just one run over 14 2/3 innings, striking out 17 and walking only one. Webb finished 11th in the NL Cy Young voting in '22 and second in '23, and he is emerging as one of the game's top starting pitchers.

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