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Originally Posted by dalakhani
Okay, you win there. Here are my first baseman better than TEX in the last 25 years. This should be fun to chew on:
1. Don Mattingly
2. Jeff Bagwell
3. Eddie Murray
4. Rod Carew
5. Will Clark
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He and Mattingly are very close at age 28 but Tex hits from both sides and Donnie baseball only had 5 good seasons and was pretty much done at 29.
Bagwell may have a little better raw numbers but Tex is a far better fielder and bags peaked in a very suspicous era.
eddie murray was a better player
carew was not a great 1st baseman, his overall career is hall of fame worthy but he simply had no power and outside of his 1977 season which was unbelievable he is not the player that tex is.
Will Clark was a good player but is not in tex's league either
I understand that most havent seen the guy play that much but he is a very good hitter, has power, makes contact, takes walks, superior defender and shows up to play.
his career average season:
612 Ab's
101 runs
177 hits
40 2bs
36 hrs
121 rbis
79 bb
124 k
.290 avg
.378 obp
.541 slg
keep in mind he has dramatically dropped his k rate and raised his bb rate the last 2 seasons and plays Gold Glove defense