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[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by Frazod

Some valid points here that I had never really considered (mainly because I despised the teams he played for), but you do seem focused on over-the-hill Rose while ignoring young Rose. It's hard to ignore his contributions to the Reds back in the day. And as the fat guy from Moneyball would point out, he did get on base.

It is hard to feel sorry for him, though. Rose's biggest enemy has always been Rose.

I put Pete Rose on the same level as Tony Gwynn. Both were slap hitters with no power and if they played today they'd be completely out of there element.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

I put Pete Rose on the same level as Tony Gwynn. Both were slap hitters with no power and if they played today they'd be completely out of there element.

No way dude. I didn’t watch enough of Pete rose to know how he’d adapt to today’s game. But without a doubt Tony Gwynn would. He is one of the best pure contact hitters this game has ever seen. He was a slap hitter because he was an ideal #2 hitter especially in a dead ball era. In a juiced ball era with much smaller stadiums he might take a few more pitches and take some bigger swings. It would have been comical watching defenses try to shift him. But he had more than enough talent and pop to adapt and he showed plenty of success later in his career adapting to the new era even though he was old and fat

But at worst he would be a better version of arraez and that’s plenty good.