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Originally Posted by BigFish
I would take Jim Rice over Manny any day of the week and twice on Sunday! Both played 15 years.....Rice retired after 15 and Manny still plays but here are their numbers after their 15 seasons.
Rice 382 homers, 1451 rbi and batted .298 career. 2452 hits in 8225 at bats in 2089 games. Rice had 4129 total bases career. Rice had an astounding 79 triples and had 373 doubles. Best year was 1978 won MVP with 46 homers, 139 rbi and batted .315 with 406 total bases!
Manny 527 homers, 1725 rbi and has a .314 career avg. 2392 hits in 7610 at bats in 2103 games. Total bases career thus far.......Manny has only 18 triples career and 527 doubles.
Rice had 4 200 hit seasons and Manny has zero! Only 18 triples to Rice's 79.....WOW! Manny dogs it big time! Lots more doubles but thats because he stopped at 2nd alot more!
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Sorry, but there's one huge difference---Rice had a habit of coming up small in the clutch. No one I remember hit more 3 run HRs with an 8 run lead, and more 6-4-3 DPs with two on, one out and the Sox down a run
Rice hit into 315 DPs in a 16 year career--Manny's hit into 230 to date.
We know Manny doesn't hustle--we don't need his doubles/triples numbers to know it. You weren't paying him to stretch doubles into triples
Manny also got walked a lot more often than Rice did. Rice struck out more than two times as much as he walked, and he never had more than 62 walks in a season. Manny's averaged close to 100 walks a season for his career. Pitchers didn't pitch around Rice like they did with Manny.