Top 32 tournament CF Edmonds vs Pinson

[obxyankeefan]

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

Centerfield Bracket is:

1 W Mays 9
32 M Cameron 0

16 J Wynn 8
17 C Lemon 3

8 C Beltran 10
25 E Burks 1

9 D Snider 9
24 F Lynn 0

4 M Mantle 9
29 E Averill 0

13 W Davis 5
20 C Cedeno 4

5 K Griffey JR 13
28 B Williams 0

12 A Jones 9
21 J O' Rourke 0

3 T Speaker 6
30 D White 0

14 J Edmonds
19 V Pinson

6 J DiMaggio
27 B Butler

11 B Hamilton
22 K Puckett

2 T Cobb
31 T Leach

15 J Damon
18 M Carey

7 K Lofton
26 L Doby

10 R Ashhburn
23 T Hunter

1 W Mays
16 J Wynn

8 C Beltran
9 D Snider

4 M Mantle
13 W Davis

5 K Griffey JR
12 A Jones

3 T Speaker

 

[obxyankeefan]

Jim Edmonds Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com

Vada Pinson Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com

 

[navamind]

Edmonds. He was a bit overrated defensively (he was still pretty good, but he made a lot of plays look harder than they were), but he was one of the best offensive CF of all-time.

 

[Howie115]

Playing through the high-mound era, Pinson was better than his numbers might indicate. But I still voted for Edmonds.

 

[HammerDown]

he was one of the best offensive CF of all-time.

He was?

 

[navamind]

He was?

Yes. Not on par with Mays/DiMaggio/Speaker/Mantle/Cobb obviously, but yes.

 

[HammerDown]

Yes. Not on par with Mays/DiMaggio/Speaker/Mantle/Cobb obviously, but yes.

So "above average" might be more accurate than "one of the best of all time."

And let's not forget Jim Edmonds was close with Troy Glaus their whole careers and common sense tells you those Angels teams were juiced to the brim. Edmonds certainly had all the tell-tale injuries.

 

[Villain]

If you told me that Vada Pinson wasn't a real person, I'd believe you.