#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
2286	Winston Hill	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1963–1977	81.9
2287	Fred Clarke	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	1894–1915	83.1
2288	Yu Darvish	Baseball	🇯🇵 Japan	2005–—	82.4
2289	Torry Holt	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1999–2009	80.1
2290	Buster Posey	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	2009–2021	81.1
2291	Masahiro Tanaka	Baseball	🇯🇵 Japan	2007–—	81.9
2292	Jim Rice	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	1974–1989	81.6
2293	Juan Soto	Baseball	🇩🇴 Dominican Republic	2018–—	79.8
2294	James Cecil Parke	Tennis	🇮🇪 Ireland	1904–1920	78.3
2295	Link Lyman	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1922–1934	81.4
2296	Jack Crawford	Cricket	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1904–1923	77.5
2298	Dominic Thiem	Tennis	🇦🇹 Austria	2011–2023	77.0
2299	Frank Nighbor	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1917–1930	79.8
2300	Terrell Davis	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1995–2001	76.4
2301	Leroy Kelly	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1964–1973	79.8
2302	Pete Henry	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1920–1928	79.6
2303	Chris Hanburger	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1965–1978	81.2
2304	Tony Canadeo	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1941–1952	80.6
2307	Babe Dye	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1919–1931	79.0
2308	Patrick Mahomes	American Football	🇺🇸 USA	2017–—	75.7
2309	Roberto Clemente	Baseball	🇵🇷 Puerto Rico	1955–1972	81.9
2310	Adrian Peterson	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	2007–2021	80.7
2312	Carl Yastrzemski	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	1961–1983	83.5
2313	Duncan Keith	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	2002–2022	81.2
2314	Anthony Edwards	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	2020–—	72.4
2316	Luke Kuechly	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	2012–2019	77.7
2317	Guy Carbonneau	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1980–2000	81.6
2318	Andy Caddick	Cricket	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 United Kingdom	1991–2009	78.1
2319	Sid Abel	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1938–1954	80.5
2320	Richard Seymour	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	2001–2012	80.5
2321	Jimmy Smith	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1992–2005	80.7
2322	Ricardo Santos	Volleyball	🇧🇷 Brazil	1995–2016	83.1
2323	Meadowlark Lemon	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1954–1980	78.6
2325	Joseph Brennan	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1925–1942	77.0
2326	Turk Broda	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1936–1952	80.0
2327	Johnny Bucyk	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1955–1978	82.3
2328	Cy Denneny	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1917–1929	79.4
2329	Bronko Nagurski	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1930–1943	78.6
2330	Pat LaFontaine	Ice Hockey	🇺🇸 United States	1983–1998	79.6
2331	Russ Grimm	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1981–1991	80.2
2332	Stan Jones	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1954–1966	81.2
2333	Art Donovan	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1950–1961	80.5
2334	Fred Dean	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1975–1985	79.2
2335	Dale Benkenstein	Cricket	🇿🇦 South Africa	1993–2015	79.4
2336	Harry Oliver	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1921–1937	81.7
2339	Mike Bossy	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1977–1987	78.5
2341	J.J. Watt	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	2011–2022	79.5
2343	Adrián Beltré	Baseball	🇩🇴 Dominican Republic	1998–2018	83.5
2347	Rollie Fingers	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	1968–1985	81.5
2348	Vitas Gerulaitis	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1971–1986	78.0

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