A-Rod makes more than the entire Marlins team

[sup-rbeast]

OK...using your stats, I ranked all 8 of the 1Bs in RBI, AVG, HRs and OBP. Then I averaged those rankings to find the best overall hitter. Shook out like this (rankings don't correspond to orger of categories above):
1-Clark (2,2,2,3)(2.22 overall)
2-Olerud (3,1,5,2)(2.75 overall)
3-(3 way tie)
Gallaraga (1,8,8,1)(4.50 overall)
Grace (8,4,2,4)(4.50 overall)
Mattingly (4,7,6,1)(4.50 overall)
6-Hernandez (8,2,4,7)(5.22 overall)
7-Joyner (6,6,7,5)(5.75 overall)
8-Gurrerro (5,5,6,8)(6.00 overall)
So, IMO Clark and Olerud show to be the best overall hitters..BUT Clark didn't win a batting title (Olerud, Hernandez, Mattingly, and Galaraga did)
Defensively, ya gotta go on gold gloves cuz it's based on fielding percentage...so rankings there go:
1-Hernandez (11 Gold Gloves)
2-Mattingly (9 Gold Gloves)
3-Grace (4 Gold Gloves)
4-Olerud (3 Gold Gloves)
5-Galaraga (2 Gold Gloves)
6-3 way tie with NO Gold Gloves
Clark
Gurrerro
Joyner
To rank them overall average the defensive ranking and the offensive ranking
1-Mattingly (3,2)(2.5 overall)
2-Grace (3,3)(3 overall)(tie)
Olerud (2,4)(3 overall)(tie)
4-Clark (1,6)(3.5 overall)(tie)
Hernandez (6,1)(3.5 overall)
6-Gallaraga (3,5)(4 overall)
7-Joyner (7,6)(6.5 overall)
8-Gurrerro (8,6)(7 overall)
IMO, that is a pretty accurate ranking of those 8 players...and as I said before, Mattingly was the best overall player.

[BlueWahooChambordDevil]

hitting carries more weight than defense does

the way to do it is add in gold gloves with offensive stats and assign a number to that too....this way its just 5 seperate categories......you cant use 4 offensive categories and 1 defensive stat but have that one carry the same weight as 4

thats idiotic

be sure to add freddie mcgriff to the equation when you recalculate

[sup-rbeast]

Weight it however ya like to...but Bill Buckner should tell ya one is as important as the other....now that's idotic...BTW, how many gold gloved did McGriff win??

[1inStripes]

I don't like using Gold Glove awards because thats too much of a popularity vote. Too hsee how good of a fielder a guy is, I would rather see his putout/assist to error ratio.

[neutral88]

Crime Dawg was solid as a Rock....

He was also a class act, as far as I could tell...

[BlueWahooChambordDevil]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sup-rbeast</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Weight it however ya like to...but Bill Buckner should tell ya one is as important as the other....now that's idotic. </div></div>
actually bill buckner was one of the best all around players until chronic ankle injuries hampered him both in the field and on the bases

there was a time when he was a base stealer too.......but despite injuries beating him up on the bases and in the field the guy was still a solid hitter

[sup-rbeast]

Go ahead and leave out that his fielding is the only reason the Mets won the 86 title.

[BlueWahooChambordDevil]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 1inStripes</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I don't like using Gold Glove awards because thats too much of a popularity vote. Too hsee how good of a fielder a guy is, I would rather see his putout/assist to error ratio. </div></div>
fielding percentage would be a good variable to use

because despite having multiple good fielders.....only one will get a GG award

[sup-rbeast]

The majority of the time, the Gold Glove will go to the highest percentage fielder.
But here's McGriff batting (1,8,1,5)(3.75)(3rd)....defensively 6th...overll 4.5 (7th). He was a consistant slugger...but as far as avg. and fielding he was average to adequate.

[BlueWahooChambordDevil]

career fielding percentage at 1B

hernandez .994
clark .992
mattingly .996
olerud .995
grace .995
joyner .994
mc griff .992
galarraga .991
gurrero .988