DOTW: Underrated Careers in Baseball Recently.

Tony Gwynn was the most underrated player that I can remember. The guy always got it done and even when he retired is was mostly all about Cal Ripken.
 
jason27nc said:
Tony Gwynn was the most underrated player that I can remember. The guy always got it done and even when he retired is was mostly all about Cal Ripken.
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I should preface this by saying Gwynn is great, and personally I would have a hard time considering a first ballot hall of famer underrated normally. That being said Cal was a far superior player.

Gwynn finished his career with a slash line of .338/.388/.459. 135 homers 319 stolen bases and played an at best adequate defense in RF (personal take, he was good young, then really bad old)

Cal was worse offensively compiling a slash line of .276/.340/.447 431 homers and 36 stolen bases. But Cal was a great defensive SS. Early in his career Cal was a force to be reckoned with. Imagine if Simmons and TUlowitzki were merged into a player who played all 162 games, that was Cal. And not to mention Cal has a games played record that likely will never be broken.

Both are great players, both are totally worthy of their accolades. Tony is just an inferior overall package as an adequate defensive RF vs one of the best defensive short stops. That's gonna more than make up the difference between the 2 offensively when both are great hitters.
 
sure but that doesn't make it more impressive to me

there is no way that somewhere in that "streak" that the team wouldn't have been better without him out there when he played through an injury for a game or two etc
 
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