Texas Baseball: 5 best Longhorns of all-time in the MLB

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Texas baseball is unquestionably one of the best college baseball programs in the history of the sport. Texas has the second most wins of any college baseball program ever, ranking only behind Fordham (which is in the top spot since it’s been on the NCAA record books for more than a whopping 160 seasons).

In terms of College World Series appearances and National Championships, the Longhorns are always up there with the best of them. Texas has the most College World Series appearances (38), College World Series games won (88), and NCAA Tournament appearances (61).

The Longhorns also have the second-most National Championships (six) of any college baseball program.

The massive success that this baseball program has found in its history has obviously produced quite a few great players. That has translated to some former Longhorns finding a lot of success in the MLB going back more than a century.

Ranking the best Texas baseball players of all-time in the MLB

To figure out which Longhorns baseball players were the best in the MLB, we found a few metrics to rank them by. We took into account the following metrics to rank these players.

Wins above replacement: 1 WAR is worth 0.1 points to our ultimate ranking metric
World series rings: 1 world series = 0.65 points
MVP: 1 MVP = 1 point
Cy Young: 1 CY = 0.6 points
All-Star Game: 1 ASG = 0.35 points
Other major awards (i.e. AS MVP, ROY, WS MVP): 1 award = 0.25 points

These metrics were closely tied to the Hall of Fame Monitor value that is assigned to each of these accolades, awards, and/or metrics.

Here’s a look at our ranking of the top five best Longhorns players of all time in the MLB based on the metric values listed above, along with some honorable mentions.

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