" Jacobs Field, the home of the Indians since 1994, will now be called Progressive Field." Well that sucks.
I thought it was interesting that Rice's BA/OBP/SLG are nearly identical to his HoF comps; the difference comes in OPS+, where he's 13 points behind. No wonder the voters are having so much difficulty with him.
More Rice: Sheehan observes that people "feared" Rice because of his '75-'80 performance; he really wasn't that scary at all in the second half of his supposedly dominant stretch.
Last one: Shaughnessy explains to us that Rice was "capable of inducing an intentional walk when the bases are loaded," and a better hitter than Wade Boggs. I mean, I guess I am *capable* of running a marathon, but it's never, you know, *happened*.
Posnanski forces "Brilliant Reader Dan Gould" to eat his hat.
"Mike Downey discussed Goose Gossage's HOF legitimacy by citing his win total."
Keith Law is the Stephen A. Smith of baseball. I wonder how he feels about Cheese Doodles.
Boras, on Ankiel:
"You have a player whose contributions came first as a pitcher, then as a position player. The last player you’re really talking about is Babe Ruth.”
2 comments:
I've been forced to 'eat my hat'?
Try again, dip-shit. Even Joe acknowledged that there is no non-HoF who matches Rice's 12 years of league dominance.
Seriously? If you equate the following with Posnanski acknowledging that "there's no non-HOF that matches Rice's 12 years of league dominance", then I don't know what to tell you.
"Dick Allen (1964-75): 160
Frank Howard (1961-72): 147
Albert Belle (1988-99): 147
Jack Clark (1979-90): 144
Norm Cash (1969-1980): 142
Reggie Smith (1968-79): 140
Ken Singleton (1968-79): 139
Will Clark (1986-97): 138
Jose Canseco (1986-97): 136
Boog Powell (1961-72): 136
Rocky Colavito (1955-66): 135
Joe Torre (1960-71): 135
Tony Oliva (1963-74): 135
Fred Lynn (1975-86): 135 (worth nothing that these are the precise 12 years we’re talking about with Rice — he did not even have the best OPS+ among non-Hall of Famers on HIS OWN TEAM during that 12-year stretch).
Dwight Evans (1981-92): 135
Minnie Minoso (1950-61): 134
Jimmy Wynn (1964-75): 134
Rusty Staub (1965-76): 134
I realize this probably won’t convince Dan or anyone else who loves Rice because you could easily just say, “Well, who cares about OPS+?” — same deal with Win Shares or Eqa or runs created or any other single stat. People who want to believe Rice was the most dominant hitter in baseball for 12 years will believe it, and that’s cool. That’s part of being a fan. In other words, I don’t know if we can get Dan to eat his hat."
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