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The Top Ranked Baseball Players by Rookie Year-1955
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 | Sandy Koufax | SP | 16 |
| 2 | Jim Bunning | SP | 90 |
| 3 | Roberto Clemente | RF | 156 |
| 4 | Ken Boyer | 3B | 259 |
| 5 | Rocky Colavito | RF | 275 |
| 6 | Elston Howard | C | 368 |
| 7 | Earl Battey | C | 494 |
| 8 | Brooks Robinson | 3B | 566 |
| 9 | Lindy McDaniel | RP | 638 |
| 10 | Frank Malzone | 3B | 846 |
| 11 | Bobby Richardson | 2B | 896 |
| 12 | Larry Jackson | SP | 900 |
| 13 | Ted Abernathy | RP | 929 |
| 14 | Herb Score | SP | 1311 |
| 15 | Pedro Ramos | RP | 1450 |
| 16 | Hank Aguirre | RP | 1528 |
| 17 | Ed Roebuck | RP | 1687 |
| 18 | Bud Daley | RP | 1827 |
| 19 | Tom Sturdivant | RP | 1915 |
| 20 | Bill Virdon | CF | 2192 |
| 21 | Don Blasingame | 2B | 2373 |
| 22 | Johnny Kucks | SP | 2377 |
| 23 | Roger Craig | RP | 2385 |
| 24 | Luis Arroyo | RP | 2488 |
| 25 | Barney Schultz | RP | 2509 |
| 26 | Hector Lopez | LF | 2526 |
| 27 | Jim Owens | RP | 2545 |
| 28 | Clete Boyer | 3B | 2736 |
| 29 | Frank Baumann | RP | 2805 |
| 30 | Jim Pagliaroni | C | 2908 |
| 31 | Hal W. Smith | C | 2962 |
| 32 | Dave Hillman | RP | 2971 |
| 33 | Duke Maas | RP | 3415 |
| 34 | Jack Meyer | RP | 3440 |
| 35 | Pete Burnside | RP | 3506 |
| 36 | Don Ferrarese | RP | 3724 |
| 37 | Don Gross | RP | 4318 |
| 38 | Bubba Phillips | 3B | 4367 |
| 39 | George Susce | RP | 4671 |
| 40 | Jim King | RF | 4684 |
| 41 | Wayne Causey | SS | 4797 |
| 42 | Art Ceccarelli | SP | 4994 |
| 43 | Don Bessent | RP | 5032 |
| 44 | Humberto Robinson | RP | 5054 |
| 45 | Dick Hyde | RP | 5098 |
| 46 | Jack Spring | RP | 5467 |
| 47 | Rip Coleman | RP | 5794 |
| 48 | Roman Mejias | RF | 6590 |
| 49 | Don Kaiser | SP | 6611 |
| 50 | Gail Harris | 1B | 6654 |
| 51 | Bob G. Smith | RP | 6704 |
| 52 | Rudy Minarcin | RP | 7517 |
| 53 | Herb Moford | RP | 7545 |
| 54 | Babe Birrer | RP | 7575 |
| 55 | Marv Throneberry | 1B | 7826 |
| 56 | Lino Donoso | RP | 8153 |
| 57 | Kihachi Enomoto | 1B | 8176 |
| 58 | Red Swanson | RP | 8441 |
| 59 | Bob Speake | LF | 8459 |
| 60 | Floyd Wooldridge | RP | 8560 |
| 61 | Glenn Cox | RP | 8570 |
| 62 | Johnny Blanchard | C | 8584 |
| 63 | John Andre | RP | 8785 |
| 64 | Haywood Sullivan | C | 8897 |
| 65 | Walt Craddock | RP | 8940 |
| 66 | Pete Daley | C | 9242 |
| 67 | Joe Trimble | SP | 9414 |
| 68 | Chuck Tanner | LF | 9497 |
| 69 | Lynn Lovenguth | RP | 9644 |
| 70 | Mike Kume | SP | 9754 |
| 71 | Julio Becquer | 1B | 9826 |
| 72 | Van Fletcher | RP | 9840 |
| 73 | Jose Valdivielso | SS | 9880 |
| 74 | Vicente Amor | RP | 10424 |
| 75 | Chuck Templeton | RP | 10573 |
| 76 | Hy Cohen | RP | 10831 |
| 77 | Al Grunwald | RP | 10989 |
| 78 | Ernie Oravetz | RF | 11472 |
| 79 | Takao Katsuragi | RF | 11548 |
| 80 | Glen Gorbous | RF | 11575 |
| 81 | Bob Hale | 1B | 11598 |
| 82 | Billy Harrell | SS | 11857 |
| 83 | Bob Hazle | RF | 12252 |
| 84 | Harry Malmberg | 2B | 12327 |
| 85 | Jim Pyburn | CF | 12821 |
| 86 | Kenichiro Okamoto | 1B | 12905 |
| 87 | Masahiko Mori | C | 12998 |
| 88 | Nelson Burbrink | C | 13074 |
| 89 | Hiromu Fujii | 1B | 13092 |
| 90 | Kiyoshi Watanabe | CF | 13246 |
| 91 | Toshio Miyamoto | RF | 13310 |
| 92 | Masataka Tsuchiya (1935) | 2B | 13472 |
| 93 | Bobby Kline | SS | 13558 |
| 94 | Toshio Naka | CF | 13571 |
| 95 | Milt Smith | 3B | 13627 |
| 96 | Shigenori Sasaki | 2B | 13689 |
| 97 | Bob Stephenson | SS | 13784 |
| 98 | Yoji Tamatsukuri | CF | 13840 |
| 99 | Juan Delis | 3B | 13856 |
| 100 | Akira Owada | RF | 13865 |
| 101 | Minoru Tanimoto | C | 14378 |
| 102 | Joe Altobelli | LF | 14534 |
| 103 | Tadashi Hatta | 2B | 14583 |
| 104 | Masaaki Oishi | LF | 14848 |
| 105 | Tsutomu Edamura | CF | 14903 |
| 106 | Hiromi Wada | C | 14907 |
| 107 | Toshiyuki Nakamura | 3B | 15217 |
| 108 | Koji Shimada | 1B | 15293 |
| 109 | Takeyoshi Kiori | C | 15301 |
| 110 | Akira Kunimatsu | LF | 15418 |
| 111 | Kaishi Takano | CF | 15475 |
| 112 | Kyozo Kinoshita | CF | 15807 |
| 113 | Masaharu Sekimori | CF | 15808 |
| 114 | Masakazu Kawahara | C | 15817 |
| 115 | Shigeru Arai | LF | 15868 |
| 116 | Koji Kawamoto | 1B | 16602 |
| 117 | Kenichi Kawazu | 2B | 16614 |
| 118 | Morio Okada | SS | 16619 |
| 119 | Keinosuke Kawasaki | 1B | 16632 |
| 120 | Keiichi Asagoe | 2B | 16634 |
| 121 | Yoji Matsuoka | CF | 16657 |
| 122 | Kenji Tomokawa | LF | 16661 |
| 123 | Katsura Yokomizo | LF | 16663 |
| 124 | Mikihiro Yamamura | 3B | 16675 |
| 125 | Shinji Tsutsui | 3B | 16676 |
| 126 | Kotaro Egawa | 3B | 16680 |
| 127 | Jun Aoki | C | 16709 |
| 128 | Toshitake Nakayama | RP | 16728 |
| 129 | Kazunori Nishimura | RP | 16741 |
| 130 | Teruaki Minami | SS | 16743 |
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