The Best Backyard Baseball Players

Backyard Baseball was THE game for me growing up. I would spend hours on end playing it and winning championships.

The best part about the game was the fact that you could use your favorite athletes. I always locked up Ken Griffey Jr., Nomar Garciaparra, Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, and Chipper Jones on my squad. However, there were a few backyard baseball characters that you also needed to throw on the team.

I never took nine backyard baseball characters on my team, but there were always at least nine worth taking. Here’s a look at my top backyard baseball characters.

9. Kenny Kawaguchi

Kenny was the kid in the wheelchair so he may be a surprise pick to make the team. However, any person that has the advantage of using wheels can play for my squad. Kid could make solid contact at the dish and when you got him on the base path in that wheelchair you had a speedy option. Imagine if he had one of those motorized wheelchairs that go like 20 MPH. Kid would be unstoppable. Who would want to block the bag or plate when you got an occupied wheelchair coming full speed at you? I know I wouldn’t.

8. Jocinda Smith

Jocinda is a team player. She can hit, she can field, and she has a bit of speed to her. She was never my first option and very rarely made my teams, but whenever she was chosen, she was a valuable piece of the puzzle.

7. Dmitri Petrovich

Kid was a straight up nerd. What kind of baseball player puts pens in his front pocket? Well, Dmitri does apparently. But, with any fat guy in baseball, he had power. Plug him in to the bottom third of the lineup and you have a homerun threat. In the field you need to put him at 1st or catcher becasue he isn’t very fast. But when you can have a roster that has the likes of Jeter, Griffey, Rodriguez, and Garciaparra then you can take a risk on the fat power hitter that’s slow in the field.