Again.....Is This His Year?

[BigFish]

Jim Rice is in his last year to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame by the writers! Will he make it this year???? I think he belonged in a long time ago! After this years vote he will only be able to gain admission through the veterans commitee! I hope he gets the vote this year!

[Mike P]

Tell you what---most of the fans outside of New England are scratching their heads wondering why this guy isn't in Cooperstown already. Even most Yankee fans think that he belongs there.

He has 400 fewer career RBI than Winfield, who's in the Hall, in 6 fewer seasons, and the guy was a lock for 100+ RBI a year in his prime. If you compare his stats to Winfield's, and adjust them for the 6 more years Winfield played, they're comparable.

The guy made some serious enemies among the writers, though.

[Slipknot]

He WILL get in

[Raider Ronnie]

He is in the boat as the Snake.
Both pissed a lot of the press off during the career.
It's amazing how some of the voters are allowed to keep their frigging vote when they openly show a dislike against someone deserving to get in and that is the obvious reason they won't ever vote for them !

[BigFish]

I have said it before....the most devastating hitter in baseball for 10 years of his prime! One of the best I have ever seen.

[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!

[Mike P]

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!

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.

[rwilhelm]

He should have been in a long time ago! I think this year he will get in, every year he keeps getting closer.

[Uncle Matt]

When do they vote? Anyone know?

[BigFish]

The announcement will come Monday at 1:30. I think he gets in this year!