Here are Rickey Henderson's numbers and here are Tim Raines' career stats. They played during the exact same era, in opposite leagues, for about the same time. Look at the 162 game averages for the two players and you will find the smallest of small differences. Although Henderson may be 7% better than Raines, he is 70% better than Raines in terms of hall of fame voting among baseball writers(95%-23%). This is ridicules. Let me tell you the main difference. Rickey played in New York and California and spoke in the third person. That is what Rickey did and that is what Rickey does. Raines played in lonely Montreal where they dont even speak english and measure homers using the metric system. Raines was the penultimate leadoff man in all of baseball for 20 years, just behind Rickey the Great. They should be entering the hall of fame side-by-side as the leadoff men for the AL and NL, but it was never to be for "the rock"
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Henderson vs. Raines
Here are Rickey Henderson's numbers and here are Tim Raines' career stats. They played during the exact same era, in opposite leagues, for about the same time. Look at the 162 game averages for the two players and you will find the smallest of small differences. Although Henderson may be 7% better than Raines, he is 70% better than Raines in terms of hall of fame voting among baseball writers(95%-23%). This is ridicules. Let me tell you the main difference. Rickey played in New York and California and spoke in the third person. That is what Rickey did and that is what Rickey does. Raines played in lonely Montreal where they dont even speak english and measure homers using the metric system. Raines was the penultimate leadoff man in all of baseball for 20 years, just behind Rickey the Great. They should be entering the hall of fame side-by-side as the leadoff men for the AL and NL, but it was never to be for "the rock"
Tim Raines also only walked 80+ times 5 times in his career (never 100+).
ReplyDeleteHowever, he did once steal 75 bases and only get caught 10 times. He was an extremely efficient basestealer (7:1 SB/CS)
I'd say he's a borderline