Over the next few weeks as the NCAA Tournament and Spring Training dominate the month of March, we have combined the two for our own March Madness, which will determine who the readers of RealGM will select in the second edition of our 'Be The GM' series. Though there are many different potential answers, the question is simple; If you were to start a MLB franchise from scratch and had the option to pick any player in the world, who would you pick? Click here for more information on this series and to read other match-ups. Evan Longoria, 3B, Tampa Bay Rays Longoria was the AL Rookie of the Year in 2008 with 27 homers and an .874 OPS, hit an additional six homers in the postseason and played a very good defensive third base. He won't turn 24 until October and if he can up his OBP by decreasing his strikeout rate, Longoria should be a perennial .950 or better OPS hitter until 2020. Longoria also has proven to be a reliable clutch hitter, posting a 1.189 OPS in 'late & close' situations. Alex Rodriguez, 3B, New York Yankees A few weeks ago when Nate Silver wrote a piece predicting A-Rod wouldn't break the HR record, I thought no way would his homer totals dip so dramatically, but he's now a long ways away from 762. I thought A-Rod would coast until 40 as an OPS of 1.000, but his body looks like its on a Jay-Z/Linkin Park type of collision course with the proverbial wall and won't have the same goodies available to him to defy the aging process as Clemens and Bonds. Let's leave that aside and look what he's done strictly since he joined the Yankees and presumably was clean. Since 2004, Rodriguez is seventh in OPS behind Bonds, Pujols, Papi, Manny, Chipper and Berkman and has won two MVPs. My biggest concern beyond the injuries is how long his bat speed will remain at its current level. Unlike Bonds and Pujols, A-Rod has always been strikeout prone and has never really developed that impeccable eye for reading pitches the way the true great have and relies heavily on that bat speed to be advantageous with mistakes. Click here to cast your vote for Longoria or Rodriguez.