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Originally Posted by ihatenames
We'll have to agree to disagree. While .320 is pretty impressive his lack of power really diminishes his value. And for a strictly singles hitter 2400 hits over 17 years doesn't guarantee the Hall for me. Even with his high batting average his career OPS+ was only 107, that's good for about 87th all time for 3b.
Traynor never lead the league in any offensive categories other than triples one year. In fact, He never finished higher than 5th in the league in batting average. He was a good player not a great one.
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Your definition of what a singles hitter is and mine seem to differ. Ranking 30th all time in 3B to me is not a singles hitter. He averaged 31 2B per season. Yes he had no power. There are 11 HOF 3B.
He is 2nd in average. 1st in 3B. 4th in Hits. He is also the 1st HOF 3B.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/hof/hofst3b.shtml
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