Check out his numbers in his first 9 years:
Year Tm G AB R H HR RBI BA OBP SLGRemember SNK Baseball? Remember who you loved to hit with? Jim Rice. Crushed it in that game. There were two swings I always loved to emulate whenever I played Wiffleball growing up - Will Clark and Jim Rice. He was terrible to the media, but he was worse to a baseball. He demolished those. I can't believe he didn't get voted in!
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1974 BOS 24 67 6 18 1 13 .269 .307 .373
1975 BOS 144 564 92 174 22 102 .309 .350 .491
1976 BOS 153 581 75 164 25 85 .282 .315 .482
1977 BOS 160 644 104 206 39 114 .320 .376 .593
1978 BOS 163 677 121 213 46 139 .315 .370 .600
1979 BOS 158 619 117 201 39 130 .325 .381 .596
1980 BOS 124 504 81 148 24 86 .294 .336 .504
1981 BOS 108 451 51 128 17 62 .284 .333 .441
1982 BOS 145 573 86 177 24 97 .309 .375 .494
1983 BOS 155 626 90 191 39 126 .305 .361 .550
1984 BOS 159 657 98 184 28 122 .280 .323 .467
1985 BOS 140 546 85 159 27 103 .291 .349 .487
46 HRs/.600 SLG in 1978 was obscene. They were playing with waterlogged tennis balls back then, compared to today.
3 comments:
His stats are amazing over a 10 year period. The problem is he treated the media like trash during that time and they are the ones who will vote him in.
For what I hear from people who work with him now is that he is one of the nicest players they work with during events.
Yeah, but you know what? That sucks.
I'm just sitting here this morning in complete disbelief that our two idiot GMs just picked up Julian Tavarez for 2 years - yeah, exactly what we need in Boston guys - another whackjob! That guy is tapped.
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Jim Rice should've been a first-ballot HOF. Bar none. From 1975-1986, he placed in the top-5 of the major stat categories 29 times in the American League. Maybe offensive talent was lacking during that period of time, but pitching sure as hell wasn't - Jim Palmer, Nolan Ryan, Tommy John, Ron Guidry...besides, his reputation was bad-ass. He had a tight fro, a trimmed 70's mustache. The man breathed Colt 45.
He is sort of ambiguous, though...for some reason, it's hard to compare him to others from his "era" because he's sort of stuck in the middle of the greats from the 70s and 80s. Which is probably why he's sitting at home drinking his coffee this morning with his MVP Award holding down a corner of the paper.
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