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Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 7:12 am Posts: 1642 Location: The Jungle
spike wrote:
I was glad when I saw this. If he hung around for 3 more he might have made a run at Aarons RBI record. Miggys over 500 behind and the only other player in the top 100 thats still active. Yeah yeah, records are meant to be broken, just seems like Aaron should hold the RBI and Total Bases record forever after Bonds getting the HR record.
Yes, the Total Bases record probably will stand forever.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 7:12 am Posts: 1642 Location: The Jungle
The Argonaut wrote:
Who was going to sign him anyway? He's been one of the worst players in the league for like four years
taking away last season he was basically a 20+ homer, 80+ RBI, .245 hitter. stick him at DH, market the hell out of getting to see a future hall of famer possibly break the RBI record, and a run at 700 HRs / Ruth? Someone might have taken a shot at it.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19718 Location: Cumberland, RI
The Argonaut wrote:
Pujols is the best player of his generation
I wanted to fool around with this a bit, so I looked for all the players who debuted five years prior to Pujols and 5 years after who had a 50+ career WAR:
1996 - Rolen (70.1), Andruw Jones (62.7), Abreu (60.2), Vlad (59.5) 1997 - Helton (61.8), Ortiz (55.3), Hunter (50.7) 1998 - Beltre (93.6), Beltran (70.1), and Halladay (64.2) 1999 - Tim Hudson (57.9) and Lance Berkamn (52) 2000 - Buehrle (59.1) and Johan Santana (51.7) 2001 - Pujols (100.7), Sabathia (62.5), Ichiro (59.7), and Roy Oswalt (50) 2002 - Highest was Cliff Lee (43.2) 2003 - Miggy (69.6), Utley (64.4), Teixeira (60.6) 2004 - Greinke (72.2), Mauer (55.3) 2005 - Verlander (71.8), Cano (69.1), Felix Hernandez (50.1) 2006 - Hamels (59.4), Kinsler (55.2), Pedroia (51.6)
It's not even really that close by this metric. I was surprised Beltre was next on the list, and I'm ride-or-die for him in the HOF, but Pujols is definitely above him.
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