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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
Well, yeah, it is more important. Championships aren't everything (see Banks, Ernie), and it's not like Buster Posey won those three WS titles for the Giants all by himself. If winning WS rings determined who got into the HOF, then David Cone would be there. It's far more important for the team that a valuable player stays in the lineup - in whatever capacity - to help the team.
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And we've reached the point of Analytico ad Absurdum. Ask Ernie Banks or any player if they would trade a year of their career or a couple hundred hits for a championship and every one would say yes. You say it's valuable to stay in the lineup to help the team. Help the team do what? Try to win a championship of course. I agree that championships aren't everything, but they're also not the nothing the statheads make them out to be.