Thursday, August 11, 2011

Where would you rank Ichiro among the greatest of all-time?

I am taking nothing away from him and would rate him higher than Henderson I suppose but if you are including pitchers in this he is in the top 50 of all time. I do not feel like making a list right now but if you give it some though guys like Ted Williams, Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb were better because they could not only hit but also hit for power and drove in insane numbers of runs. Ichiro's slugging % is a bit low. I am not dissing him in anyway he is a great player and if you are saying just hitters then I would say he is probably in the top 25. There is no player I would rather have as a number 1 or number 2 guy right now but because he basically only hits singles it is hard for me to say any higher than the top 25 hitters of all time but when you consider all the 10's of thousands of hitters that have played the game that is highly impressive. I would rank Boggs higher than Ichiro even though he had fewer stolen bases and gold gloves simply because of his ability to hit extra base hits and get hits with runners in scoring position late in ball games when his team was down.

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