NL: Luis Quinones, INF, CIN
AL: Jose Canseco, OF, OAK
Every championship team has that guy who becomes the perfect hero when you least expected it — or for him to be the guy who did it. The Cardinals had Pete Kozma; the Royals had Dane Iorg; last year’s Braves had Eddie Rosario. The 1990 Reds had Luis Quinones.
That Reds team was a blast, even if we didn’t quite realize it at the time. At the time, the Reds were just the upstart team standing in the way of the Oakland A’s winning their second consecutive championship and establishing themselves as a dynasty. But that Reds team was so fun. It had Eric Davis, Jose Rijo and Barry Larkin right in the middle of their primes. It had the best year of Mariano Duncan’s career. It had Ken Griffey Sr., when his kid was just starting to make waves out in Seattle. It had Chris Sabo and his goggles. It had Paul O’Neill before everyone started singing Scandal songs every time he came to the plate. And it had an all-timer of a bullpen –…