Top 10 poll #4: #4 player in history - Runoff

[calsnowskier]

Top 10 poll: #4 player ever

1) Babe Ruth (defeated Willie Mays 23-9) 2) Willie Mays (defeated Barry Bonds 26-11) 3) Ted Williams (defeated Barry Bonds 18-17) Who is the #3 player ever? Vote for your top 3. This poll will close Friday AM. @navamind @tzill @LHG @Stokes1931 @steveringo @broncosmitty @packerzrule...

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Runoff for #4 player in baseball history. Poll closes on Monday AM. Vote for one. If a single player does not get 50%+1, we will have another runoff.

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[Used 2 B Hu]

This one's tough between Bonds and Cobb. I don't think Aaron is in the same category as those other two.

Cobb I never saw play. Bonds, I did, several times. Mainly, I think it would piss Cobb off if I vote for Bonds, so that's what I'll do.

 

[jarntt]

hmmm...if I were a skeptic I'd think this one is using 3 players instead of 2 to eliminate the anti-Bonds votes and get the win for the Giant

 

[steveringo]

This one's tough between Bonds and Cobb. I don't think Aaron is in the same category as those other two.

Cobb I never saw play. Bonds, I did, several times. Mainly, I think it would piss Cobb off if I vote for Bonds, so that's what I'll do.

It'll be between Aaron & Bonds, like the main poll... I think Cobbs is a step below...

The OG HR King - vs The Imposter?

 

[calsnowskier]

This one's tough between Bonds and Cobb. I don't think Aaron is in the same category as those other two.

Cobb I never saw play. Bonds, I did, several times. Mainly, I think it would piss Cobb off if I vote for Bonds, so that's what I'll do.

A LOT of evidence that the whole “Racist Cobb” narrative was complete BS, created by a writer who just didnt like Cobb…

 

[calsnowskier]

hmmm...if I were a skeptic I'd think this one is using 3 players instead of 2 to eliminate the anti-Bonds votes and get the win for the Giant

The winner still needs 50+1 to win. That makes no sense.

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

It'll be between Aaron & Bonds, like the main poll... I think Cobbs is a step below...

The OG HR King - vs The Imposter?

He was the OG stat padder! Basically hit 18 home runs a year for 30 years. That's some first class longevity but otherwise not a great player during most of his career.

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

A LOT of evidence that the whole “Racist Cobb” narrative was complete BS, created by a writer who just didnt like Cobb…

Nah, I saw the movie! He was EVILE

 

[calsnowskier]

It'll be between Aaron & Bonds, like the main poll... I think Cobbs is a step below...

The OG HR King - vs The Imposter?

Aaron is the greatest accumulator in the history of the game. IMHO, he belongs lower down in the top 10 (probably just below Robinson and Henderson). But his accumulation was damn impressive…

 

[Clayton]

Mainly, I think it would piss Cobb off if I vote for Bonds, so that's what I'll do.

Based on Aaron's commentary on Bonds IIRC then it would bother Aaron, too

 

[calsnowskier]

He was the OG stat padder! Basically hit 18 home runs a year for 30 years. That's some first class longevity but otherwise not a great player during most of his career.

I think calling him “not great” is a stretch, but his WAR7 just doesn’t compete with the others still on the board.

 

[calsnowskier]

Based on Aaron's commentary on Bonds IIRC then it would bother Aaron, too

Bonds should have just kept it to handfuls of greenies. If he did that, Aaron would have felt a true kinship with Bonds.

”You are only allowed to cheat the way I cheated. Don’t cheat in another way!”

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

Based on Aaron's commentary on Bonds IIRC then it would bother Aaron, too

Huh, double duty

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

I think calling him “not great” is a stretch, but his WAR7 just doesn’t compete with the others still on the board.

Yeah, that's fair

 

[Clayton]

I think calling him “not great” is a stretch, but his WAR7 just doesn’t compete with the others still on the board.

Its kinda crazy that young Bonds War7 is actually above Aarons. It does put into perspective how good Bonds was on the Pirates.

Even with Aaron maybe padding his TBs by 250 he still is the Total Bases King. It pains me to say this but I think Pujols is actually the ultimate accumulator. His stint on the Angels just didnt do him justice and maybe that was the shift because his last year in STL was respectable.

 

[DorianRo]

its time for Ty Cobb

 

[calsnowskier]

WAR7

Bonds 72.6
Cobb 69.2
Aaron 60.1

 

[MilkSpiller22]

i cant support Aaron being top 4 ever... thats pretty bad....

 

[Clayton]

Worth mentioning that actual #2 WAR7 is Hornsby, right?.

 

[MilkSpiller22]

Worth mentioning that actual #2 WAR7 is Hornsby, right?.

always amazed that he doesnt get the respect... and i just dont understand why...