Top 32 tournament C Torre vs Burgess

[obxyankeefan]

Top 32 players ranked by BRWAR(as of 6/18/15).

Catcher Bracket is:

1 J Bench 13
32 R Ferrell 1

16 T Munson 6
17 W Schang 0

8 B Dickey 3 Dickey will advance on higher seed
25 R Campanella 3

9 G Harnett 6
24 L Parrish 0

4 C Fisk 10
29 J Clements 0

13 G Tenace 1
20 J Kendall 7

5 Y Berra 7
28 R Martin 0

12 B Ewing 2 advances on seed
21 R Bresnahan 2

3 I Rodriguez 8
30 D McGuire 0

14 J Mauer 8
19 J Posada 9

6 M Piazza 11
27 V Martinez 0

11 T Simmons 11
22 D Porter 0

2 G Carter 11
31 S Lollar 0

15 E Lombardi 7
18 B Freehan 4

7 J Torre
26 S Burgess

10 M Cochrane
23 J Sundberg

1 J Bench
16 T Munson

8 B Dickey
9 G Harnett

4 C Fisk
20 J Kendall

5 Y Berra
12 B Ewing

3 I Rodriguez
19 J Posada

6 M Piazza
11 T Simmons

2 G Carter
15 E Lombardi

 

[obxyankeefan]

Joe Torre Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com

Smoky Burgess Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com

 

[MilkSpiller22]

this one is very tricky... on one hand Joe Torre played multi positions, but he only had 2000 less innings at catcher than smokemeister... That is not very significant- it is only like 2 seasons...

Then you look at torre's defensive numbers as a catcher and they were actually better at his peak than smokey... But smokey was more consistent defensively throughout his career...

then you look offensively, Torre had 3000 more Plate appearances, and since Torre played 1B too, he missed significantly less games per season... Smokey had 500 or more Plate appearances only once compared to torre did that 11 times... so Torre had more counting stats(HRs, RBIs, and runs), but the ratio stats are very close...

I guess I am going torre... But I think this one is super close...