Joe Carter most underrated player
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Just to be clear. Obama wasn’t perfect but he was [censored] good. Biden is a god awful candidate. And there are serious problems with our politics pre-Trump.
However, Trump is so especially horrible in so many critical ways. He is like a gun shot wound on an alcoholic. Yes long term you need to treat the alcoholism. Hell the alcoholism could have led to the gun shot wound. But none of that matters if you don’t treat the gun shot wound and the patient bleeds out.
Even after Trumpbis no longer in office. Quite frankly there are people like you out there to be manipulated. Low informed portions of the electorate that Fox News, the Republicans and corporate dems have allowed to grow like a cancer....the deplorables
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23 pages. It was a nice run.
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@Bob_Loblaw1984 said in Joe Carter most underrated player:
23 pages. It was a nice run.
I think we might have more in us
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Joe Carter was incredibly consistent. He played in an era where some guys were lucky to hit ~10 HRs. Nowadays the most avg of hitters are popping 20+. I think we live in a world where small ball is gone and HRS sell. If he were to play today, He’d be very valuable.
Players within 10 Hrs +- : Decent company to keep.
Duke Snider 407
Nelson Cruz 401
Andres Galarraga 399
Al Kaline 399
Dale Murphy 398
Joe Carter 396
Jim Edmonds 393
Graig Nettles 390
Johnny Bench 389
Aramis Ramirez 386
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@abbyspapa said in Joe Carter most underrated player:
@Original_Quad said in Joe Carter most underrated player:
@abbyspapa said in Joe Carter most underrated player:
@Original_Quad said in Joe Carter most underrated player:
Okay, but Carter wasn’t even that good by traditional statistics. He was a stat packer. He hit .259 in his career and only led the league once in a major stat (RBI’s). He was a below average defender, and yeah he could hit home runs, but again, he never led the league in that stat. The only reason he accumulated the stats he did was because he avoided injuries and was consistently put in a lineup spot that allowed him to drive in so many runs.
Guess those managers who put him in those lineup spots didn't know much about baseball...because...uh..WAR and stuff. Lol
I’m not saying he wasn’t a good hitter. But he had a low average, very low OBP, and the reason he drove in those runs is because the people in front of him could get on base, therefore, he had many more opportunities to drive them in.
The reason his managers hit him in middle of the order spots is because they based their lineups off the same ideas you’re suggesting.
So these managers put someone with a very low average and OBP in the spot where they wanted someone who would drive in the runners that were on base?
Man, these guys had no idea how baseball works!
Lucky for them it worked out so well!
Where are you gonna put the guys who hit for power more than for average? At the top of the order? There’s a reason the .250 guys with 25 home runs hit in the middle of the order, and it’s not because they’re just “pretty good”.
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