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To: mishedlo who wrote (213211)	1/8/2003 5:44:01 PM
From: reaper	Read Replies (3) of 436258

man, i do hope you are kidding. quick, name 4 third-basemen in the HISTORY of baseball who were better than Santo. Schmidt. Matthews. Brett. uh..... 9 All-Star Games, 5 Gold Gloves, top-10 in the MVP voting 4 times. never got hurt (he missed 11 games his first 9 seasons in the league; 27 in his first 11). he was top-5 in the league in walks almost every year (including #1 4 times) -- walks are a highly valuable but unappreciated asset to an offense. and remember when he played; his career spanned 1961-1973, when guys like Gibson, Koufax, Marichal, Drysdale et al were regularly putting up sub-2.50 ERAs, when Carl Yaztremski won a batting title with a .301 average (and even more amazingly finished in the top 10 in 1966 with a .278 average -- Dominican shortstops put up those kinds of numbers today). Santo is no where near 'marginal'. guy is a slam-dunk lock if the BBWAA knew what the heck they were doing. here. check the core of Santo's career (1961-1973), so 13 years, against the core of Eddie Murray's career (1977-1992), so 16 years. remember the offensive differences of the eras, and remember you're comparing a third-baseman (offense generally hard to come by) with a first-baseman (big offense a dime a dozen). you're not gonna find a lot of difference. baseball-reference.com baseball-reference.com Cheers

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