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Best outfield trio the past 50 years.

GoldenageGoldenage Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited September 29, 2022 11:28AM in Sports Talk

Minimum 5 full seasons playing together.

Who are the top three and who is #1 ?

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  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Best I've come up with is Ruth/Combs/Meusel:

  • GoldenageGoldenage Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Tabe said:
    Best I've come up with is Ruth/Combs/Meusel:

    Last 50 years includes players from 1972-2022.

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,636 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Goldenage said:

    @Tabe said:
    Best I've come up with is Ruth/Combs/Meusel:

    Last 50 years includes players from 1972-2022.

    You didn't expect people to follow that simple request did you?

  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Goldenage said:

    @Tabe said:
    Best I've come up with is Ruth/Combs/Meusel:

    Last 50 years includes players from 1972-2022.

    I have no idea how I missed that. Allow me to hang my head in shame.

  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @perkdog said:

    @Goldenage said:

    @Tabe said:
    Best I've come up with is Ruth/Combs/Meusel:

    Last 50 years includes players from 1972-2022.

    You didn't expect people to follow that simple request did you?

    You say simple. I say clearly impossible.

    :)

    Ugh.

  • dallasactuarydallasactuary Posts: 4,322 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The five full seasons requirement eliminates practically every outfield. Of the very few that come to mind, the OP is the winner and Foster-Geronimo-Griffey is #2. I can't think of a third.

    This is for you @thisistheshow - Jim Rice was actually a pretty good player.
  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dallasactuary said:
    The five full seasons requirement eliminates practically every outfield. Of the very few that come to mind, the OP is the winner and Foster-Geronimo-Griffey is #2. I can't think of a third.

    I can't either. Free agency decimates guys staying together.

  • GoldenageGoldenage Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2, 2022 3:59AM

    This is how we ordered tickets when the Sox trio began their reign.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,981 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @perkdog said:

    @Goldenage said:

    @Tabe said:
    Best I've come up with is Ruth/Combs/Meusel:

    Last 50 years includes players from 1972-2022.

    You didn't expect people to follow that simple request did you?

    What rules? Maris, Mantle, Barra in 1961.

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  • 1948_Swell_Robinson1948_Swell_Robinson Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭✭✭

    While not good enough to supplant the Boston outfield, Bell-Moseby-Barfield have to be one of the best simply because they meet the five year requirement...and were pretty good too.

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,636 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Manny, > @Tabe said:

    @perkdog said:

    @Goldenage said:

    @Tabe said:
    Best I've come up with is Ruth/Combs/Meusel:

    Last 50 years includes players from 1972-2022.

    You didn't expect people to follow that simple request did you?

    You say simple. I say clearly impossible.

    :)

    Ugh.

    I do the same thing so I'm not throwing stones lol

  • dallasactuarydallasactuary Posts: 4,322 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1948_Swell_Robinson said:
    While not good enough to supplant the Boston outfield, Bell-Moseby-Barfield have to be one of the best simply because they meet the five year requirement...and were pretty good too.

    Just to drive home how rare it has been, since 1972 anyway, for an outfield to meet these requirements I'll point out that Dave Collins was the regular LF in 1984, and Barfield only played a little more than half the season in RF, and only 20 games in 1989. So, do Bell, Moseby, and Barfield meet the requirement of playing five FULL seasons together? I don't think so.

    This is for you @thisistheshow - Jim Rice was actually a pretty good player.
  • 1948_Swell_Robinson1948_Swell_Robinson Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dallasactuary said:

    @1948_Swell_Robinson said:
    While not good enough to supplant the Boston outfield, Bell-Moseby-Barfield have to be one of the best simply because they meet the five year requirement...and were pretty good too.

    Just to drive home how rare it has been, since 1972 anyway, for an outfield to meet these requirements I'll point out that Dave Collins was the regular LF in 1984, and Barfield only played a little more than half the season in RF, and only 20 games in 1989. So, do Bell, Moseby, and Barfield meet the requirement of playing five FULL seasons together? I don't think so.

  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dallasactuary said:
    The five full seasons requirement eliminates practically every outfield. Of the very few that come to mind, the OP is the winner and Foster-Geronimo-Griffey is #2. I can't think of a third.

    ...
    Thank you @goldenage for all of the hard work it must have been to create a question such as this forcing @dallasactuary to have to give Rice this dubious honor.

  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Depending how you count "full", Larry Herndon, Chet Lemon & Kirk Gibson might qualify.

  • dallasactuarydallasactuary Posts: 4,322 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Tabe said:
    Depending how you count "full", Larry Herndon, Chet Lemon & Kirk Gibson might qualify.

    If you define "full" as "half or more", you can get to three. To get to five you have to define "full" as "one third or more". I don't think that's what "full" means.

    This is for you @thisistheshow - Jim Rice was actually a pretty good player.
  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dallasactuary said:

    @Tabe said:
    Depending how you count "full", Larry Herndon, Chet Lemon & Kirk Gibson might qualify.

    If you define "full" as "half or more", you can get to three. To get to five you have to define "full" as "one third or more". I don't think that's what "full" means.

    Ah, yes. Gibby played more DH in 83 than I realized.

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