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The Top Ranked Baseball Players by Rookie Year-1952
Notes: This is a list of the greatest baseball players to start their pro career in the year listed.
| Rnk | Athlete | POS | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Eddie Mathews | 3B | 99 |
| 2 | Hoyt Wilhelm | RP | 281 |
| 3 | Stu Miller | RP | 383 |
| 4 | Harvey Haddix | SP | 498 |
| 5 | Harvey Kuenn | SS | 617 |
| 6 | Dick Groat | SS | 873 |
| 7 | Johnny Temple | 2B | 975 |
| 8 | Gene Conley | SP | 1049 |
| 9 | Ron Kline | RP | 1064 |
| 10 | Dick Hall | RP | 1103 |
| 11 | Vinegar Bend Mizell | SP | 1146 |
| 12 | Billy Hoeft | RP | 1192 |
| 13 | Bill Henry | RP | 1359 |
| 14 | Ray Moore | RP | 1480 |
| 15 | Mike Fornieles | RP | 1519 |
| 16 | Ike Delock | RP | 1753 |
| 17 | Bill Tuttle | CF | 2594 |
| 18 | Tom A. Gorman | RP | 2644 |
| 19 | Joe Black | RP | 2650 |
| 20 | Willard Schmidt | RP | 2794 |
| 21 | Jim Rivera | RF | 2947 |
| 22 | Daryl Spencer | SS | 3207 |
| 23 | Lee Walls | RF | 3546 |
| 24 | Toby Atwell | C | 3692 |
| 25 | Bobby Tiefenauer | RP | 3726 |
| 26 | Hersh Freeman | RP | 3743 |
| 27 | Dick Gernert | 1B | 4175 |
| 28 | George Crowe | 1B | 4219 |
| 29 | Jim R. Hughes | RP | 4231 |
| 30 | Andy Carey | 3B | 4291 |
| 31 | Ken Lehman | RP | 4573 |
| 32 | Billy Klaus | SS | 4972 |
| 33 | Dick Brodowski | RP | 5033 |
| 34 | Jim Greengrass | LF | 5399 |
| 35 | Ted Lepcio | 2B | 5636 |
| 36 | Bobby Del Greco | CF | 5868 |
| 37 | Gene Stephens | LF | 5958 |
| 38 | Kazuhiro Yamauchi | CF | 5969 |
| 39 | Eddie Yuhas | RP | 6209 |
| 40 | Bunky Stewart | RP | 6241 |
| 41 | Marion Fricano | RP | 6299 |
| 42 | Ron Negray | RP | 6308 |
| 43 | Dusty Rhodes | LF | 6758 |
| 44 | Charlie Bishop | SP | 6820 |
| 45 | Sandy Amoros | LF | 6828 |
| 46 | Raul Sanchez | SP | 6911 |
| 47 | Futoshi Nakanishi | 3B | 7140 |
| 48 | Cal Hogue | SP | 7230 |
| 49 | Ray Katt | C | 7234 |
| 50 | Jim Waugh | RP | 7419 |
| 51 | Virgil Jester | RP | 7499 |
| 52 | Bill Miller | RP | 7665 |
| 53 | Faye Throneberry | RF | 7942 |
| 54 | Mike Clark | RP | 8315 |
| 55 | Milt Bolling | SS | 8524 |
| 56 | Bud Black (1932) | SP | 8540 |
| 57 | Kaoru Betto | OF | 8600 |
| 58 | Johnny Rutherford | SP | 8657 |
| 59 | Jack Dittmer | 2B | 8685 |
| 60 | Ralph Brickner | RP | 8967 |
| 61 | Ron Necciai | SP | 9272 |
| 62 | Harry Schaeffer | RP | 9475 |
| 63 | Pete Whisenant | CF | 9545 |
| 64 | Tony Bartirome | 1B | 9709 |
| 65 | Takao Sato | RF | 9814 |
| 66 | Bill Bell | RP | 9842 |
| 67 | Loren Babe | 3B | 9898 |
| 68 | Nobuyuki Hikiji | SS | 10203 |
| 69 | Dave Pope | CF | 10644 |
| 70 | Shigeru Makino | SS | 10731 |
| 71 | Kohei Sugiyama | LF | 10754 |
| 72 | Nobushige Morishita | 3B | 10979 |
| 73 | Clem Koshorek | SS | 11153 |
| 74 | Jim Fridley | LF | 11181 |
| 75 | Yukihiko Machida | RF | 11208 |
| 76 | Sammy Esposito | 3B | 11427 |
| 77 | Jerry Snyder | SS | 11779 |
| 78 | Jay Porter | C | 11915 |
| 79 | Jack Daniels | RF | 12023 |
| 80 | Kite Thomas | RF | 12215 |
| 81 | Satoshi Hirayama | RF | 12361 |
| 82 | Takashi Kusaka | CF | 12396 |
| 83 | Akinobu Kono | 1B | 12547 |
| 84 | Yuzo Shimada | 2B | 12828 |
| 85 | Joe Rossi | C | 13220 |
| 86 | George Wilson | LF | 13392 |
| 87 | Darrell Johnson | C | 13543 |
| 88 | George Schmees | RF | 13675 |
| 89 | Jack Littrell | SS | 13857 |
| 90 | Michihiro Sugawara | CF | 13910 |
| 91 | Sonny Senerchia | 3B | 13973 |
| 92 | Brandy Davis | RF | 14010 |
| 93 | Jun Hirota | C | 14196 |
| 94 | Yasuhiko Kawai | C | 14542 |
| 95 | Tomio Hiroka | 3B | 14820 |
| 96 | Katsuji Kojima | CF | 15082 |
| 97 | Kimio Takagi | 1B | 15102 |
| 98 | Ron Bottler | C | 15121 |
| 99 | Shoji Kitamura | SS | 15420 |
| 100 | Masaru Sugimoto | LF | 15432 |
| 101 | Tomoharu Kai | RF | 15747 |
| 102 | Tsuneyuki Shimada | 2B | 15754 |
| 103 | Hiroshi Nomura | LF | 15770 |
| 104 | Akio Kamiichi | C | 15793 |
| 105 | Billy Wyatt | SS | 16616 |
| 106 | Ichiro Tanaka | RF | 16629 |
| 107 | Seisaburo Yamada | C | 16633 |
| 108 | Kunihisa Taneda | 3B | 16677 |
| 109 | Larry Yaji | 2B | 16692 |
| 110 | Ienari Arimura | SP | 16701 |
| 111 | Kazuo Sugitani | CF | 16705 |
| 112 | Minoru Nishikura | C | 16720 |
| 113 | Katsuhiko Ishikawa | SP | 16729 |
| 114 | Yoshio Bizen | SP | 16740 |
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