March 20

Just one active player who was born today, and that's Jonny Venters. If he can match his 2010 rookie season for the next 15 or 20 years he might be the best player born on this date, but he's certainly not there yet. So, who is? We're going old school for these ones...

Offensively, its a pretty barren day. Mike Griffin is the pick here. Griffin was an outfielder from 1887 to 1898, playing primarily with Brooklyn in the 1890s. He managed a solid 123 OPS+ and stole 473 bases, including 94 in his rookie season.

On the mound we get Hall of Famer Iron Joe McGinnity. McGinnity had a fairly brief but solid major league career, amassing 246 wins and a 120 ERA+. His nickname has been attributed to both his offseason work in a foundry and to the 1903 season when he started and won both games of a doubleheader three times in one month. He threw a shutout in Game 4 of the 1905 World Series for the Giants against the A's - all five of the games in that Series featured shutouts, with Christy Mathewson accounting for three.