data.3news-bydate.train.rec.sport.baseball.105036 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected](Michael Lurie) The Liberalizer
Subject: Re: Winfield's spot on THE ALL TIME GREATS TEAM
Organization: Allegheny College
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (David M. Tate)
writes:
> In article
[email protected] (David Robert Walker) writes:
> >In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (David M. Tate)
writes:
>
ielding RF of all time, as far
> as anyone can tell
>
> I did a quick scan last night, looking for players with a peak
comparable
> to or better than Winfield. In my quick-n-dirty subjective judgement,
you
> could make good cases for Ruth, Aaron, Ott, Robinson, Clemente, Kaline,
> Maris, Klein, Jackson, Waner, and probably a few others. This is not a
> knock on Winfield, but a comment on his consistency: all of those other
> players had awesome stretches and very good stretches, while Winfield
has
> been more uniformly excellent. Hall of Fame? Absolutely. Top-10 peak?
> I'm not so sure. Top 10 total career value? Yes, almost certainly.
>
>
Point taken. When was winfield's peak years anyway? probably around 85.