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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
ARod is an all-time great just like Gehrig was. Hard to say whether one was better than the other, they played in such vastly different eras of baseball.
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I'll help you out. Gehrig was a .360 hitter in the playoffs and won 6 World Series. This OPS # you mention a million times? Gehrig's was 1.208. And that actually matters because Gehrig and ARod are supposed to be the same type of hitters. One was a big time playoff hitter, the other was not save for one season out of 9.
While you can't compare players between eras, you CAN compare playoff performance. Because they are either better/equal in the playoffs or they are markedly worse. Gehrig was markedly better in the playoffs; ARod is markedly worse in the playoffs.