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[afterhours]

best hitter the bigs! if he could field, he would be considered the best player in all of baseball!

[Sea Dangles]

Originally Posted by afterhours

best hitter the bigs! if he could field, he would be considered the best player in all of baseball!

Yeah,and if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.

[afterhours]

sorry 'bout yer aunt hope it does'nt run in the family. nobody better in the clutch than bi pappi.

[Raider Ronnie]

Originally Posted by afterhours

best hitter the bigs! if he could field, he would be considered the best player in all of baseball!

This is soooo weird for me to root for the same team as other guys here!!!
Not only do I think David Ortiz may be the best hitter/player in the game today ( though I think fielding has a lot to do with it also)
But I say Ortiz is the best Red Sox player of all time.
Ted Williams, Yaz, and so many others never got the ring,
Ortiz was the reason for the Sox getting one !!!

[afterhours]

it's all good ronnie!

[Squid kids Dad]

Ron..Welcome to the dark side...

[BigFish]

Ron....I think your train of thought has derailed! When Big Pappi (Who I am an immense fan of by the way) tallies a .406 BA for a season......strokes his 513th dinger for his career (while missing 5 of the primest years of his career serving in the military).....wins a Triple Crown.....makes the All-Star team virtually every year of his career....gets his 3000th hit.....is a member of the 3000 hit/400 homerun club.....then we can talk about him being possibly the greatest Sox player of all time. Until any of those happen lets just call him a great hitter/possibly the best in the game right now and let it go at that because if winning just 1 World Championship as part of a team makes someone the best player in the history of the team.......then I need to stop watching baseball all together.

[BigFish]

Oh....and I gotta mention that Jim Rice could out hit/slug Pappi any day and 2 times on Sunday! Oh how so many forget the quality of hitter that Jim Rice was.....power and average! I am not talking 40 homers and a .300 average and 170 hits....I am talking 45 homers, 145 rbi and 200 hits with a .330 average....Rice also had over 400 total bases in 1978 and it was the first time anyone had done that in many, many years.......I don't know if it has been done since either.

I will give Big Pappi the clutch hitter nod over Rice though. Rice was not nearly as good a hitter in the clutch as Ortiz....though I think Yaz was at least as good in the clutch.