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In alpha order:
Hitters:
Dark Horse Allen
Rabbi Baum,
Slap Hertzog
Patrick Seifried
Bull Zegri
Pitchers:
Mark Krosser
On Wizard Reneau vs. Schwarz, people probably should vote for Wiz ahead of Schwarz. Wiz's R+RBI is actually 19 higher. His OPS is _much_ higher -.829 vs. .760. Heck, .317/.382/.447 smokes .260/.312/.448 despite the HR advantage Schwarz has. Wiz's leaderboard appearances BA (2-2-7), OBP (2-2-8-9), SLG (5-8-10) and OPS (2-6-10) swamp Schwarz's SLG (1-2-2-5-6) and OPS (3-8-10). Schwarz was an "RBI Man" (1-3-6-9-9-9-9) while Wiz was a Run Man (1-3-4-7-7-10) that pretty much wash out. Gold Glove catcher (one of the best ever with 8) vs. Gold Glove SS ("just" three). I know Schwarz held the all-time HR record. He's not exactly Dave Kingman, but he's not Mike Schmidt either.
As you can see, I didn't vote for Wiz. He's close. An .829 OPS from a Gold Glove middle IF is very impressive. Flaky was a .838. Of course he played a large chunk of his career in the dead ball era, while Wiz got the lively ball. You can look at Flaky in the BA/OBP/SLG/OPS leaderboards and see that in the context of his time he was consistently a better hitter than Wiz. So I'm being cautious with Wiz until we look a bit more into him. Then again, one can take a look at Schwarz and compare him with the Great Catchers who came before him and see he comes up very short.
John
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