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Roberto Clemente most likely had the best overall arm as far as strength and accurately goes. Rocky Colavito might have had a more powerful arm BUT it wasn't as accurate as Clemente's. Carl Furillo, Bob Meusel also had Great arms.

Here's Bill James' Abstract's best arms by decade:

1870's-Jim Hatfield, CIN

1880's-George Gore

1890's-George Van Haltren

1900's-Mike Mitchell

1910's-Tris Speaker

1920's-Bob Meusel

1930's-Mel Ott/Chick Hafey

1940's-Bob Johnson /Vince DiMaggio

Negro Leagues-Jelly Gardner, Martin DiHigo, Cristobal Torriente

1950's-Carl Furillo

1960's-Roberto Clemente

1970's-Ellis Valentine

1980's-Jesse Barfield

1990's-Vladimir Guerrero

For 2000's I would add Ichiro Suzuki to that list too.

I have to throw in Andre Dawson for the 1990's, this is agdog

More Recently, Jose Bautista of the Toronto Blue Jays has an exceptional arm as well, but he did not get much publicity until now that he has 42 home runs, on his way to more, a major league Best.

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