• 3000 Hits, 500 HR, .300+ AVG (3rd): Cabrera joins Hank Aaron and Willie Mays

• 3000 Hits, 500 HR, 600 Doubles (3rd): Cabrera joins Hank Aaron and Willie Mays again

Congrats to Miguel !

Pujols...

Miggy is now the 7th to reach 3,000 hits & 500 HR

Albert has more doubles, more RBI, more HR, considerably higher WAR, gold gloves, and NOBODY put together a first 10 years of a career that can touch what he did. A 1st ballot HOF by age 30.

But only Aaron, Mays and Cabrera have the lifetime .300 average too.

Ok, but .297 isn't far off. Give Albert his due...

Aside from the average, Albert has better numbers...and he might get to 700 HR this year.

You did say best hitter of the last 40 years.

In STL, Albert AVERAGED .328, 40 HR and 120 RBI over 11 seasons.

Albert over Miggy absolutely. And I’m a cubs fan so you know it’s true.

Posted by DoctorKz on 4/23/2022 8:38:00 PM (view original):
Aside from the average, Albert has better numbers...and he might get to 700 HR this year.

You did say best hitter of the last 40 years.

Yes he did say 40 years. Nothing against Miggy or Sir Albert, but luv or hate him, maybe he meant accumulated since Bonds retired 15 years ago. 'IF' a tiebreaker is needed (it's not), throw in glove and legs. Unless you factor in the pariah discount.

Yes the Gigantic Head was outstanding. Too often he's overlooked.

Actually because of t,he 300/500/3000 number, I was trying to time it since Mays & Aaron.

Again I was basing it on those 3 numbers.

Sorry Doc, being from Philly, I didn’t like Albert, partisan thing. He was a pain in the a**.

Cabrerra is by no means my favorite, I was just impressed with the career numbers.

If we’re talking favorites at first it would be the first 6 years of Ryan Howard. In the. OF it would be Ashburn a totally different kind of player. (Who else hit a lady with 2 foul balls in this same AB, who else decided when he was hitting .300 that being a broadcaster inPhilly was better then being a Met)

Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn hit a foul ball that struck “Alice Roth squarely in the face, breaking her nose,” writes Daven Hiskey. “The game was then paused as medics came in to tend to Roth. As they were carrying her away on a stretcher, play was resumed and Ashburn fouled off the first pitch thrown to him.[emphasis mine.] This foul subsequently struck Roth as she was being carried off by the medics.”

Ashburn was the Mets’ first All-Star and was honored after the season as their Most Valuable Player.

“I was chosen the MVP on the worst team in baseball. I got a boat. Took it to the Delaware river and it sank,” he once said.

Cabrera and Pujols are terrific players, outstanding careers.

Neither is in Bonds's league, in my opinion.

Some will choose to eliminate Bonds from consideration - and there's no point in having that argument here. People tend to be pretty intransigent one way or the other.

Not yet mentioned for some reason: Mike Trout. He doesn't have the gaudy career totals yet, but he is in my opinion unquestionably superior to both Pujols and Cabrera. One hopes he's able to shake off last year's injuries and come all the way back. Trout to me is not only the best hitter of the best 40 years - he's the best hitter since Williams, and arguably the best PLAYER since Ruth.

Tony Gwynn, Wade Boggs, George Brett, and Rickey Henderson have to be in the conversation, even Frank Thomas if you're not discounting his DH PA's.

Griffey should be in convo as well, though I agree with contrarian that Bonds is the clear leader here, with Mike Trout the only one who really challenges that right now.

You do gotta give Miggy credit though, he’d probably be closer to Albert’s HR numbers if he wasn’t playing in Comerica.