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Reggie Jackson
jad22
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Just throwing it out there but I think he was overrated jerk. He was funny in the naked gun though.
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jad22
Posts: 535 ✭✭
jad22
Posts: 535 ✭✭
jad22
Posts: 535 ✭✭
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Actually now he seems to be a pretty cool guy and a decent person.
edit: just looked it up, and wow, he's #1 by over 400 over Sosa, nearly 2600 career K's, averaging 149 / 162 games...mighty impressive.
<< <i>Just throwing it out there but I think he was overrated jerk. He was funny in the naked gun though. >>
As with all questions of who is or isn't overrated, it depends on where you rate him and where you believe others rate him. Bill James rates him as the seventh best right fielder in history (sandwiched below Rose and Gwynn and above Clemente and Waner). That strkes me as about right, but if you wanted to drop him a spot or two it wouldn't be ridiculous. If you want to drop him out of the top 10, then you are being ridiculous.
The Mr. October stuff is a bit much, I agree, but since people almost always underrate his regular season hitting (usually because of a batting average fetish) I think it probably balances out fairly well.
-- Yogi Berra
<< <i>Of course he was overrated, he played for the Yankees so he must be. >>
I think Guidry was overrated in 1978. He lost 3 whole games for cryin' out loud!!
<< <i>Didn't Yogi Berra have more Hr's in the playoffs than anybody? >>
Bernie Williams holds that distinction, with 22, more so for his 541 plate appearances than anything else.
Manny is second at 20 in 360 plate appearances.
Reggie and Mantle third, with 318 and 273 plate appearances, respectively.
Thome, 17 and 216 PAs.
Jeter, 16 and 528 PAs.
Ruth, 15 in 167.
Justice, 14, 471.
Chipper Jones, 13 and 412.
Yogi, 12 and 295.
-- Yogi Berra