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Here¡¯s a subjective ranking of the top five for May 27:

1) Frank Thomas (1968)
What a machine. What a nickname. What a player. The Big Hurt was a one-man wrecking crew with a top batting eye and spent 16 of his 19 seasons doing damage for the Chicago White Sox. Thomas won back-to-back MVPs in 1993-94. He was a pure hitter (.301 lifetime average) who also happened to have elite power (521 homers). Thomas led the American League in OPS four times in the 1990s and finished top five in that category eight times in his career.

2) Jeff Bagwell (1968)
On one late May day in ¡¯68, two Hall of Famers were born in Thomas and Bagwell. Much to the chagrin of Red Sox fans, Bagwell spent his entire career as a Houston Astro. This is because Boston traded its power-hitting prospect to Houston for a quick fix down the stretch in 1990 in righty reliever Larry Andersen. Bagwell, part of the famed Killer Bs with the Astros, made himself part of one of the most one-sided trades in history. An iron man, Bagwell played all 162 games four times. He mashed 488 doubles and 449 homers over 15 seasons.

3) Gary Nolan (1948)
Believe it or not, the ¡°Big Red Machine¡± Reds weren¡¯t all about offense. Nolan was one of their most trusted pitchers, a righty who was a 15-game winner in both of the back-to-back championship seasons (1975 and ¡¯76). He won 14 games as a rookie in ¡¯67 and added a career-high 18 victories in ¡¯70 and 15 more in ¡¯72. Like many pitchers of that era, when medical science wasn¡¯t what it later became, Nolan had to retire at the age of 29 with shoulder and elbow issues.

4) Todd Hundley (1969)
The switch-hitting catcher with 202 career homers peaked in 1996 when he unloaded to the tune of 41 homers for the Mets. However, the loyal fans in Queens would just as soon forget the ill-fated experiment when the Mets tried to transition him to left field in ¡¯98, when he made five errors in 49 total chances. The reason the Mets had to move Hundley to left was the trade for Mike Piazza.

5) Yo¨¢n Moncada (1995)

Moncada, a talented switch-hitter, was the big piece the Red Sox needed to send to the White Sox when they acquired Chris Sale in December of 2016. Moncada has gone through some lumps in his career, including a 217-strikeout season in ¡¯18. But he¡¯s also shown what made him such a prized international signing, such as when he hit .315 with 25 homers and a .915 OPS the following season.

Others of note

Pinky Higgins (1909)

Higgins was an RBI machine. In 1938, Higgins had 106 RBIs despite just five homers. In his other 100-RBI season, he had nine homers. Many of his RBIs came from doubles. Higgins hit the 30-double mark the first five seasons of his career. He split his 14-year career between the Philadelphia Athletics, Red Sox and Tigers. Higgins went on to manage the Red Sox for eight seasons, going 560-556.

Jos¨¦ Berr¨ªos (1994)

The solid righty from Puerto Rico anchored the Twins¡¯ rotation for the better part of four seasons before the Blue Jays acquired him at the ¡¯21 Trade Deadline. Toronto is looking for many more solid seasons out of Berr¨ªos, who is signed through ¡¯28.

John Jaha (1966)
A run producer who had a short prime, Jaha had two big power years in his career, smashing 34 homers with 118 RBIs for the ¡¯96 Brewers and 35 bombs to go with 111 RBIs for the ¡¯99 Athletics.

Mark Clear (1956)
Who the heck is Mark Clear? He was actually a two-time All-Star reliever who had a live arm and a lot of promise earlier in his career. Impressively, Clear won 14 games for the ¡¯82 Red Sox while pitching exclusively in relief. He edged out Dennis Eckersley and John Tudor, who both had 13 victories, for the staff lead that year in W¡¯s. Clear also saved 14 games that season.

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