How does Frank Thomas rank historically among 1st basemen?

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Butt Rubber

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Lou Gehrig (1923-1939)
Batting average: .340
Onbase Percentage: 447
Slugging percentage: .632
Hits: 2721
Doubles: 534
Triples: 163
Home runs: 493
RBI: 1995
Runs: 1888
Stolen Bases: 102
30+ home run seasons: 10
100 RBI seasons: 13
100 Run seasons: 13
Adjusted OPS+: 179

Jimmie Foxx (1925-1941)
Batting average: .325
Onbase Percentage: .428
Slugging percentage: .609
Hits: 2646
Doubles: 458
Triples: 125
Home runs: 534
RBI: 1922
Runs: 1751
Stolen Bases: 87
30+ home run seasons: 12
100 RBI seasons: 13
100 Run seasons: 11
Adjusted OPS+: 163

Frank Thomas *AS OF 9/17/2006*
Batting average: .306
Onbase Percentage: .425
Slugging percentage: .568
Hits: 2256
Doubles: 457
Triples: 11
Home runs: 486
RBI: 1570
Runs: 1400
Stolen Bases: 32
30+ home run seasons: 9
100 RBI seasons: 11
100 Run seasons: 9
Adjusted OPS+: 160

Hank Greenberg (1930-1947, missed 3 years due to war)
Batting average: .313
Onbase Percentage: .412
Slugging percentage: .605
Hits: 1628
Doubles: 379
Triples: 71
Home runs: 331
RBI: 1276
Runs: 1051
Stolen Bases: 58
30+ home run seasons: 6
100 RBI seasons: 7
100 Run seasons: 6
Adjusted OPS+: 158

Jeff Bagwell (1991-2005)
Batting average: .297
Onbase Percentage: .408
Slugging percentage: .540
Hits: 2314
Doubles: 488
Triples: 32
Home runs: 449
RBI: 1529
Runs: 1517
Stolen Bases: 202
30+ home run seasons: 9
100 RBI seasons: 8
100 Run seasons: 9
Adjusted OPS+: 150

Cap Anson (1871-1896)
Batting average: .333
Onbase Percentage: .393
Slugging percentage: .445
Hits: 3418
Doubles: 581
Triples: 142
Home runs: 97
RBI: 2076
Runs: 1996
Stolen Bases: 276 (incomplete)
30+ home run seasons: 0
100 RBI seasons: 7
100 Run seasons: 6
Adjusted OPS+: 141


How does Frank Thomas rank historically among first basemen?
 
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tennis_dog

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im not gonna look at all those people who i dont know and all the stats which i really dont care about...

he's still a white sox, despite being on the A's, and while i'd normally be inclined to hate on him, his performance this year shows to me that he hasnt lost a thing and that injury plaguing him the last two years was just that...an injury...not a result of him being old...so...i still think he has another year or two left in him..he'll hit 500 if he comes back another year, and he'll def. go down as one of the greatest hitters ever.... he has an amazing eye for the ball, which is why he walked 100 times like..11 years or something like that....there's no doubt in my mind that he's one of the greater first basemen, and that he deserves a spot in the hall of fame..
 
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tennis_dog

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fine, lou gehrig and bagwell, but still, i didnt sift through their stats...all are legends, but comparing them all...i dunno..i cant do that... i never watched gehrig play..bagwell...i dunno....he's cool..

but thomas has been in chicago for a while, so..
 
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FroDawgg

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as a lifelong white sox fan, i hated to see him go the way he did, but i'm so happy that he's having a great year. if he needed that change of scenery to rejuvenate him, then so be it. i still hope and believe that he will retire a white sok.
 
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xxx

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FroDawgg said:
as a lifelong white sox fan, i hated to see him go the way he did, but i'm so happy that he's having a great year. if he needed that change of scenery to rejuvenate him, then so be it. i still hope and believe that he will retire a white sok.
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Agree. I grew up on Thomas. I have a few thousand of his trading cards. I guess ill have to root for the A's since the Sox probably wont make the playoffs this time around...
 
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FroDawgg

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^^^i hate em; only thing i admire about them is their ability to lose and still clinch their division. but, i have no room to talk, as my chisox blow.
 
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Butt Rubber

More arrogant than SicC
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Chisox will go down in history as one-year wonders

how do you think the current Yankees team will go down as? with 6 future hall-of-famers on their roster (A-rod/Randy Johnson/Jeter/Rivera/Mussina/Sheffield*), a few borderline HOF guys (Posada/Williams/Abreu/Damon), a Japanese baseball legend (Matsui) and the next coming of Rod Caruw (Cano)?
 
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FroDawgg

Well-Known Member
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^^^you do have great players there, but only a few have won a series with the yanks, six years ago. so unless they win, they will go down in history as a team with a bunch of hall of famers. if they do win this year, then you can say they were a great championship team. we'll see in a few weeks. they have a great chance to win, and even though i'd rather them not, i'm not counting them out.
 
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tennis_dog

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i dunno how the sox managed to pull it off last year....it was all small ball and good pitching.... but this year, i think the pitching either had a bad year, or was bad all along and just had one good year last year...so i dunno...

as for the yanks, it would be terrible if they didnt win it this year... not having pitching is a bad excuse in their case.... to have to sit a guy like melky cabrera cuz there are actually better players than him is amazing...the team has that much depth on the hitting front, they can fuck pitching goodbye.... even if a-rod cant get a big hit (which is such a cliche, i feel stupid even saying that) the other guys can come up big.... all of them can... matsui especially...

and why was there an asterisk next to sheff??? that's just fucking retarded.... he didnt use steroids.... there's a whole racial reason behind it in addition to other factors... he's not gonna use steroids..sheff is the real deal..
 
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