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Monday, December 01, 2008
Get Rice in the Hall already
Best Five Offensive Seasons According to:
- WPA (denominated in Wins)
- SitW (Situational Wins, aka WPA/LI)
- wOBA (simple average)
- WiSh (Batting Win Shares)
Player WPA SitW wOBA WiSh
Raines +23 +26 .405 141
Dewey +22 +20 .410 117
Rice +19 +18 .407 128
Dawson +19 +16 .386 106
Raines’s wOBA excludes 1981.
For someone whose calling card is his peak offensive play, Rice doesn’t compare to Tim Raines. He’s between Dewey and Dawson in terms of batting peak.
Dawson and Dewey’s calling card (and so far, it’s been a tough sell to the Hall voters on Dawson and gone with Dewey) includes their Gold Glove defense and longevity, two things Rice doesn’t even have.
I’m pulling for Rice, if only for the reason that it makes it easier to justify Hawk and Rock. For Dewey, all I can say is that he deserves it as much as Dawson, and much more than Rice does.
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