Glad to see Rice make it on his last year of eligibility with the writers. Rickey's acceptance speech should be entertaining. :lol:
No doubt. Rice doesn't have the stats that some of the steroid users of today have, but he was the most feared hitter in baseball during his time. He should've made it along time ago.
Rickey's the best! Rickey's the best! He might accept naked. :grin: We were big fans of the Bash Brothers, but only Rickey would pose for a picture with us. Jose and Mark couldn't be bothered. :dis:
I heard a baseball guy today sounding off on Rice and said he probably didn't deserve to be in the hall because he was an awful fielder and played his entire career in a hitter's ballpark. I think he also said his OBP was not good. I would have to check that stat. He also said that this could open up the floodgates for marginal corner outfielders who will proclaim they had better career stats than Rice. My take on this is at least his moustache should get into the Hall. Hatcher, take it away.
he was MLB home plate this evening and talked about his OBP said nobody gave a chit about OBP back then said guys weren't worried about just getting on base like some people today.
Hall of Fame voting is the weirdest thing out there. How a guy like Rice gets 75% of the vote when Tim Raines gets 22% makes ZERO sense. Raines was a beast of a lead off hitter and has great stats. Rice was a lunch bucket player at best.
Rice was consistently among league leaders in HRs, even led the AL a few times while playing half his games in a ballpark built for lefties Jim Rice: 162 game average of 30 hr, 113 rbi, 190 hits, and .298 ba Tim Raines: 162 game average of 11 hr , 63 rbi, 169 hits, .294 ba Rice just didn't steal bases
