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JamesI · 08-26-2002, 06:09 PM

Bo could have been a football hall of famer barring the injury without question. I think had he chosen to focus entirely on baseball and had actually listened to his coaches a little, he could have been a great player in baseballl, maybe not hall of fame, but someone up there with the rest of the just shorts.

SmedIndy · 08-27-2002, 12:26 AM

Call me crazy, but I still think decathletes are the greatest athletes. Not that any Olympian is chopped liver....

Ytown Tribe fan · 08-27-2002, 08:37 AM

I was looking at comparablity scores, out of curiosity -- I thought that Bo and Reggie would be very comparable players early in their careers.

Boy, did I get an eye-opener. Part of the reason for the comp differences is that Bo didn't start playing MLB until he was 24.

In Reggie's first years, he was most comparable to Darryl Strawberry, then later Roger Maris, then Dale Murphy.

In Bo's first years, he was most comparable to Greg Vaughn at age 24 and 25, but at age 26, his best comp was Phil Plantier.

Appropriate, no?

After the injury, Bo's comps severely tailed off in quality, while Reggie's kept getting better and better -- all Hall of Famers.

Maybe there's something to these comp scores.

pwdennis · 08-27-2002, 10:41 PM

I always felt that Bo's best sport was football. Had he chosen to play baseball exclusively I think he would have put up the sort of numbers associated with Bob Allison, Rocky Colavito, Roy Sievers - good solid careers but not of Hall Fame quality.

Bo's strike zone judgment was questionable and I seriously question whether or not Bo was in the middle of his best season in 1994. On so few at bats an 0 for 4 day would have dropped his BA to .273 and his slugging % to .497 so I think extrapolating anything out of this data is reaching.

That having been said, he was a very exciting player to watch

08-27-2002, 10:41 PM	#19
pwdennis NetShrine All-Century Team Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Winter Springs, FL Posts: 2,503	I always felt that Bo's best sport was football. Had he chosen to play baseball exclusively I think he would have put up the sort of numbers associated with Bob Allison, Rocky Colavito, Roy Sievers - good solid careers but not of Hall Fame quality. Bo's strike zone judgment was questionable and I seriously question whether or not Bo was in the middle of his best season in 1994. On so few at bats an 0 for 4 day would have dropped his BA to .273 and his slugging % to .497 so I think extrapolating anything out of this data is reaching. That having been said, he was a very exciting player to watch __________________ "I would submit that if the world survives for a million years, perhaps its finest hour may be that in the last half of the 20th century, when the power to blow up the world rested in the hands of a few men in two very unsophisticated and suspicious countries, we didn't do it, and one American, Richard Nixon, moved the cold war away from permanent confrontation toward victory. How could any wrong that he did compare with that?" - John Sears

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08-26-2002, 06:09 PM	#16
JamesI Netshrine Vacuum Cleaner Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Potsdam, N.Y. Posts: 3,723	Bo could have been a football hall of famer barring the injury without question. I think had he chosen to focus entirely on baseball and had actually listened to his coaches a little, he could have been a great player in baseballl, maybe not hall of fame, but someone up there with the rest of the just shorts.

08-27-2002, 12:26 AM	#17
SmedIndy NetShrine's Historian Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Zionsville, IN Posts: 10,569	Call me crazy, but I still think decathletes are the greatest athletes. Not that any Olympian is chopped liver....

08-27-2002, 08:37 AM	#18
Ytown Tribe fan Guest Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Scrappers territory Posts: 2,515	I was looking at comparablity scores, out of curiosity -- I thought that Bo and Reggie would be very comparable players early in their careers. Boy, did I get an eye-opener. Part of the reason for the comp differences is that Bo didn't start playing MLB until he was 24. In Reggie's first years, he was most comparable to Darryl Strawberry, then later Roger Maris, then Dale Murphy. In Bo's first years, he was most comparable to Greg Vaughn at age 24 and 25, but at age 26, his best comp was Phil Plantier. Appropriate, no? After the injury, Bo's comps severely tailed off in quality, while Reggie's kept getting better and better -- all Hall of Famers. Maybe there's something to these comp scores.

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