Baseball History: Wondering What Could Have Been

 One of the hot topics over the past few days in various online forums involves what players one would want to give a clean bill of health to. Let’s look back throughout baseball history and see what players could have benefited the most.

Over the course of baseball history, there have been players who appeared destined for stardom until injuries got in the way. While some of those players continued to play at an elite level, and even made the Hall of Fame, they still were not quite what everyone expected. One still has to wonder “What if” when looking back over their careers.

Now, imagine that you had the ability to go back and give one player in baseball history perfect health. That player would be able to have his entire career unfold, and could perhaps become the player everyone imagined. It is certainly a fascinating topic to think about.

That topic of conversation has been making the rounds online lately. From various social media outlets to different chat groups, it is a topic that has spurred a great deal of discussion. It is also a topic that, when going back over baseball history, could lead to quite the interesting hypothetical.

And so, let us look back and think of what could have been. Here are ten players whose careers, as impressive as some of them were, could have been that much better if they remained healthy.