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| Bert Campaneris |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Bob Feller |
  
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14 | 46.67% |
| Tony Gwynn |
  
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6 | 20.00% |
| Waite Hoyt |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Greg Luzinski |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Fred Lynn |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Robin Yount |
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10 | 33.33% |
| other (please state who in post) |
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0 | 0% |
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08-19-2002, 11:25 PM
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What to do?
I have to get into hiaku! Bobble, bobble, bobble. Sheets can wobble.
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08-20-2002, 12:15 AM
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I went Yount, Feller and Gwynn in that order. In my opinion (an opinion shared by James and other observers) it is very likely that WW2 saved Feller's career from burning out. Bob was so heavily overworked as a young pitcher that I suspect he would have burned out within a few years. He worked the following workloads: AGE IP 18 148.8 19 277.7 20 296.7 21 320.3 22 343.0 1941 was his age 22 season, a year which saw his BBs skyrocket and saw him register his career worst (to that point) K/G ratio
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08-20-2002, 12:42 AM
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Just to quibble...Feller went from 261 Ks in 320 innings to 260 Ks in 343 innings...that's not what I would call statistically significant.
He walked 194 guys, but three years earlier he had walked 208 in 277 innings. |
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08-20-2002, 12:57 AM
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Feller, Yount and Gwynn
All deserve our great respect Rapid Robert wins |
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08-20-2002, 12:58 AM
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True dat, Skip. But No. 19 will always make me think of Stevie Y/Trottier.
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08-20-2002, 02:29 AM
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After much consideration, I voted for Gwynn. I could make just as good a case for Feller or Yount, but tonight/this morning I went for sweet-swinging Tony.
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08-20-2002, 06:36 AM
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Hmmmmmmm...who to vote for. This is a toughie.
Ok I vote for Tony.  |
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08-20-2002, 08:58 AM
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I went with Yount (barely), but have the greatest respect for Feller for serving three years on a battleship during the prime of his career.....
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08-20-2002, 09:04 AM
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Much as it pained me to pass up one of the all-time great hitters, I had to go with Feller.
Rapid Robert was simply the best pitcher in baseball, covering a span of twenty or more years - between Lefty Grove and Sandy Koufax. |
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08-20-2002, 11:32 PM
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I'm sure I'll be kicked out of the Coco Crisp Fan Club, but I voted for Yount. Gwynn second. Feller third.
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08-21-2002, 01:16 PM
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Feller or Rockin' Robin??? What a choice. Well, I went with Yount because of those MVP's and the fact he didn't raise a stink when he couldn't play short anymore after his rotator cuff injury. He, with Ripken, also changed the way shortstops played the game. Here is to Milwaukee's Best.
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08-22-2002, 07:58 PM
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feller
Though he's a crank, Feller,beacuse a number of people whom I respect tell me he was as good as anyone they have seen. Yount, all around good guynext...
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08-23-2002, 02:36 PM
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Surprise, surprise, I voted for Gwynn. I can understand a vote for Feller, but I just don't think that Yount was a better player than Gwynn. That's not based on any statistical analysis, just from observation. Of course, I could be wrong.
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08-27-2002, 09:52 AM
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Gwynn singles to Left,
sweet swinging Padre for life. Hall of Fame calling. |
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