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This dude is gonna get PAID
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Poor guy is on the Angels. Needs to get out of there ASAP.
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What is his WAR?
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A lifetime .264 hitter?
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Did you not watch any baseball last year?
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1 year, not a career oh yeah, hit .257
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Look, he is a great player, but greatest? Not even close.
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My criteria isn't batting average.
I suppose with babe Ruth's pitching ability at the beginning of his career he would be in the discussion but I could argue easily that SO has faced much better competition.
The pitching-hitting combo puts him over the top in my opinion. Not to mention speed on the bases. Reportedly,he can play good defense too if needed.
I guess had Willie Mays been an elite pitcher, I would have considered him as well.
Obviously SO and Ruth are pretty much in a separate category of anyone else I can think of.
Who you got?
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You seem pretty focused on batting average so I'm not sure we're going to have much of a discussion here
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Baseball people need to get fukt with always trying to use numbers to say someone broke a record or did something historic.
You never stop hearing about shit like “Bartolo Colon was the only player to strike out the side in the hour of 3 to 4 PM on a Wednesday in August”. That tweet in OP is an example of this shit.
You never stop hearing about shit like “Bartolo Colon was the only player to strike out the side in the hour of 3 to 4 PM on a Wednesday in August”. That tweet in OP is an example of this shit.
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Everyone needs to get fukt!
And he still had the second best OPS+ in the AL. It's almost like there's more to hitting than batting average.
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His career OPS is well below .900. Not great
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The greatest do it all.
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Pitch?
Did I say he was the greatest?
He isn't the greatest hitter, nor is he the greatest pitcher. But he's still got a career 137 OPS+, and a career 127 ERA+. That's still an All-Star level performance as a hitter and a starting pitcher, even if he's more very good than great. And when you consider that it's coming from one single spot on the roster, it's a very valuable player.
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He and Trout both.
