Greatest Baseball Player of this Generation?

[JoltinJoe]

Hey, it got the conversation going.

nice job......opie

Hey, contrary to opie thread, everything here was/is in good fun.

And Chipper Jones sucks.

[Ivytalk]

nice job......opie

Hey, contrary to opie thread, everything here was/is in good fun.

And Chipper Jones sucks.

Chipper Jones does suck. citdog's just jealous of all the extracurricular poosay Chipper's amassed over the years. Right, Reb Schmeckle?

[JoltinJoe]

Robinson Cano

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[SDHornet]

Props to free7694 for giving love to Mr. 5.5 hole...or Mr. Padre as he is known here in SD.

Very underrated player, Tony Gwynn, at least by baseball fans. He was always a pain in the rear against the Rockies (though I think some of that was because our pitching stunk).

He would have been huge if he played for a team in a large media market. Gwynn was an athlete. I have been told he had the option of either going pro in hoops or baseball coming out of SDSU. I have also been told he chose baseball because he felt it was more of a challenge for him.

[Grizalltheway]

Very underrated player, Tony Gwynn, at least by baseball fans. He was always a pain in the rear against the Rockies (though I think some of that was because our pitching stunk).

He would have been huge if he played for a team in a large media market. Gwynn was an athlete. I have been told he had the option of either going pro in hoops or baseball coming out of SDSU. I have also been told he chose baseball because he felt it was more of a challenge for him.

THIS guy could have played pro basketball??

[SDHornet]

He would have been huge if he played for a team in a large media market. Gwynn was an athlete. I have been told he had the option of either going pro in hoops or baseball coming out of SDSU. I have also been told he chose baseball because he felt it was more of a challenge for him.

THIS guy could have played pro basketball??

You're god damn right he could have:

It's a shame he has ballooned to what he is now. But when you are the man of a franchise, you can do pretty much whatever the fuck you want...like say have a below average range for a short stop and be heralded as one of the greatest players of this generation.

[SuperHornet]

The weight sure didn't affect the stick much. He could have been a singles-only DH had he wanted to go to the pansy-@$$ AL.

[Gil Dobie]

The weight sure didn't affect the stick much. He could have been a singles-only DH had he wanted to go to the pansy-@$$ AL.

I'd put him #2 behind Ichiro for best singles hitters of this generation.

[SuperHornet]

The weight sure didn't affect the stick much. He could have been a singles-only DH had he wanted to go to the pansy-@$$ AL.

I'd put him #2 behind Ichiro for best singles hitters of this generation.

I'm not so sure about that. As good as BOTH of them are, I don't think either one of them will ever get to 4256.

[Gil Dobie]

I'd put him #2 behind Ichiro for best singles hitters of this generation.

I'm not so sure about that. As good as BOTH of them are, I don't think either one of them will ever get to 4256.

Ichiro has 3620 combined Japan and MLB hits.

[SuperHornet]

I'm not so sure about that. As good as BOTH of them are, I don't think either one of them will ever get to 4256.

Ichiro has 3620 combined Japan and MLB hits.

If you wanna go there, then Bonds is NOT the HR king. That honor would belong to Sadaharu Oh, who belted 868 of them in a career where he only played for ONE team, never hit more than 55, and "only" averaged about 39. Of course, that was pretty much average for elite power hitters in his era.

[DJH]

I'm not so sure about that. As good as BOTH of them are, I don't think either one of them will ever get to 4256.

Ichiro has 3620 combined Japan and MLB hits.

Who cares how many hits he had in Japan? That means nothing.

You want to give guys credit for hits they had in inferior leagues? Might as well start allowing players to include minor league hits onto their hit totals.

[Gil Dobie]

Ichiro has 3620 combined Japan and MLB hits.

If you wanna go there, then Bonds is NOT the HR king. That honor would belong to Sadaharu Oh, who belted 868 of them in a career where he only played for ONE team, never hit more than 55, and "only" averaged about 39. Of course, that was pretty much average for elite power hitters in his era.

True, Oh is the Home Run King if you count verified records, Josh Gibson may have hit more in the Negro Leagues.

[OSBF]

Pujols.

This discussion begins and ends right there.

A DH can not be considered as best "player", "hitter" perhaps, but not best "player"