#LL-50 Tris Speaker/Jacoby Ellsbury
Answer: WTF!With Jacoby's last season performance, this comparison went from Ridiculous to WTF! Now, if the comparison was Vince Coleman/Jacoby Ellsbury that is a Legendary Linage I could call Plausible.
#LL-14 Warren Spahn/Tommy Hanson
Answer: RidiculousFor this one we are currently on a Ridiculous plateau and possibly beginning a slide toward WTF? Sure Spahn did have some losing seasons but Hanson is going to need to have quite a few 20 wins season before he could really be in the same breath as Warren.
#LL-47 Frank Robinson/Ryan Braun
Answer: Plausible
Frank played 21 seasons and Ryan will be entering his fifth in 2011 but over the 162 game stats average the two are very similar:
Frank: .294 BA 170 hits 35 HR 105 RBI .389 OBA
Ryan: .307 BA 199 hits 36 HR 118 RBI .364 OBA
#LL-56 Brooks Robinson/Ryan Zimmerman
Answer: PlausibleRyan has Brooks beat with the offensive numbers but Ryan has a long, long, long way to go to reach Brooks' 16 Gold Gloves [that's 16 IN A ROW, btw]. Ryan won the Gold Glove in 2009 but lost it to Scott Rolen this season.
#LL-5 Ty Cobb/Curtis Granderson
Answer: WTF!
You know, some of these things are just plain crazy. A Ty Cobb/Ichiro card gets a strong "Plausible." Adding up Ichiro's Japanese and American hits he's almost at Cobb's mark. But Curtis Granderson? Child, please!
#LL-37 Jackie Robinson/Ichiro
Answer: PlausibleIf anything, this is the one comparison where the pictures might be reversed.
#LL-41 Jimmie Foxx/Prince Fielder
Answer: On nicknames alone, this would be a WTF! "Double X" versus "The Fattest Vegetarian Ever"...there isn't even a debate there. But on offensive numbers alone things get a lot closer to Plausible.Jimmie: .325 BA 185 hits 37 HR 134 RBIs .609 Slugging
Prince: .279 BA 164 hits 37 HR 104 RBIs .535 Slugging
#LL-61 Dave Winfield/Jason Heyward
Answer: RidiculousOne season is not enough time and however great Jason Heyward is as an athlete he's no Dave Winfield who was drafted by the Padres, Vikings, and Atlanta Hawks.
5 comments:
I always wondered how vegitarians could be so fat, answer cake has no meat!!!
Y U RIDICULOUS MAH BRAVES?!?!
Besides, Winfield is no Heyward. J-Hey had 15 more homers than Dave in his rookie season while being a year younger. 131 OPS+ at age 20? That's my J-Hey!
This post was awesome... thanks for entertaining me the last 5 minutes... you should definitely post more of these.
Great post idea.
P.S. Spahn was the man. There aren't too many that compare.
I was going to say you forgot about the Pirates one that features Honus Wagner and Andrew McCuthen. But you picked it up in a later post. Good job.
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