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three years pass...
sometimes i look at his stats and just boggle, i mean he never had a singular all-time season like a lot of absolute inner-circle HOFers, he just was so consistent for two decades without a decline and he was good at *everything*. Well, maybe not an all-time defender but that type of thing from that era might be tough to pin down.
― omar little, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
one year passes...
(xpost) Most of them--killed Koufax--but looks like Gibson and Seaver held him in check (and Sutton and Jenkins didn't fare too badly).
― clemenza, Friday, 22 January 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link
There's a reader's thread on the Bill James site where they've been cutting some of Aaron's career totals in half to see which players turn up.
Cut his bWAR in half and you roughly get Derek Jeter, Reggie Jackson, Frank Thomas, and Tony Gwynn.
"Players with between 350 and 410 home runs (roughly half of Aaron's 755), plus a batting average over .280, include Duke Snider, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, and Hank Greenberg."
I'll add a couple myself.
Half his Total Bases: Kirby Puckett, Alan Trammell, Gil Hodges.
Half his RBI: Bill Dickey, Chuck Klein, Jim Edmonds, Will Clark.
― clemenza, Thursday, 4 February 2021 13:59 (three years ago) link