This month, Baseball Tonight is ranking the top players in each MLB franchise’s history. Follow this link and you can vote from among several all-time greats on each team to help determine each club’s “Franchise Player”. For a baseball geek like me, this is just my kind of thing. In case you’re wondering, here’s my ballot.

Cards – Musial. At least for now. In 10 years, it’ll probably be Pujols. But for now, Stan’s the Man.

Reds – My gut says Bench, but this is tough. Morgan was great; according to Bill James, the greatest 2B of all-time. But I dock him points for his insipid television commentary. Frank Robinson also deserves consideration. Ultimately, though, these two also did significant damage with other clubs. Bench gets the nod.

White Sox – Eddie Collins, the 2nd greatest 2B of all-time.

Giants – This is impossible. Matthewson, McCovey, Ott, Mays. The Giants have had some great players. But you absolutely have to vote for Bonds. If you don’t, you’re crazy.

Blue Jays – What, no Garth Iorg? Kelly Gruber? There’s no real clear-cut choice here, so I’ll go with Delgado since he was there for a decade.

Astros – Bagwell.

Nats / Expos – Tim Raines. Man, the Expos had some talent. How come they never won?

Cubs – Ernie Banks.

Brewers – This is a close call with Yount and Molitor. I’ll take Yount because he played the field more regularly.

Diamondbacks – This is where it gets absurd. Randy Johnson, but who really cares?

Padres – Gwynn, with a nod to Hoffman.

Marlins – Pick ’em. I went with Conine simply because he’s known as “Mr. Marlin”. That has to be the lamest nickname ever.

Royals – Brett. Why even put anybody else on the list?

Pirates – Honus Wagner, although I really wanted to vote for Clemente.

Devil Rays – Again, who cares? Carl Crawford, I guess.

Angels – This is another one without a clear cut favorite. I haven’t looked at the numbers, but I imagine Garrett Anderson and Tim Salmon have similar career numbers. I’ll go with Salmon simply because he has a few years on Anderson.

Senators / Twins – I kind of wish they could split this one. It’s hard not to vote for Walter Johnson, but he played in a different era. He’d get my Senators vote and Kirby would get my Twins vote.

Indians – This is one classic franchise that doesn’t have that one all-time great, in my opinion. I guess you could argue for Feller or Lajoie, but I’m going with Larry Doby for his contribution to help integrate MLB. He’s considered the “American League’s Jackie Robinson”.

Mariners – Griffey.

Mets – Another tough one. I’ll go with Seaver, though. Random thought: Do any of you remember when Gregg Jeffries’ rookie card was worth like $20? Everybody thought he was the second coming of Pete Rose back in the late ’80s. Too bad he couldn’t even beat out Wally Backman for the starting 2B job.

Rockies – Helton. Go Vols.

A’s – I think there are four deserving candidates here: Henderson, Foxx, Reggie, and Simmons. Just for argument’s sake, I’ll say Rickey, although several of his best years came with other clubs.

Orioles – Ripken, with Murray receiving an honorable mention.

Tigers – Cobb. No brainer.

Rangers – Nolan Ryan is probably more identifiable with this club than anybody else, but I think Juan Gone is the choice here.

Braves – Aaron. No brainer.

Phillies – Schmidt. Greatest 3B of all-time.

Red Sox – This is an impressive list. The Splendid Splinter, Ted Williams, is by far the choice, though.

Yankees – Another slam dunk, in my opinion. Ruth is the greatest player who ever lived. The real question is who ranks #2 on this list? DiMaggio? Mantle? Gehrig? I’m tempted to give DiMaggio the slightest nod over Gehrig, but not by much.

Dodgers – Although his career was cut short by injury, Koufax was absolutely the best pitcher ever for about a six-year stretch there. I thought long and hard about Jackie here, but my gut says Koufax was greater, if even for a shorter period of time.

Your thoughts?