Depends on what you mean by wizard.
Their overall stats are very similar.
Over a 162gm avg
Boggs H 200 HR 8 RBI 67 w/so 94/49 AVG .328 GIDP 16 Total WAR 91.4
Gwynn H 209 HR 9 RBI 76 w/so 52/29 AVG .338 GIDP 17 Total WAR 69.2
Carew H 200 HR 6 RBI 67 w/so 67/67 AVG .328 GIDP 14 Total WAR 81.3
Ichiro H 189 HR 7 RBI 48 w/so 39/66 AVG .311 GIDP 6 Total WAR 59.4
I find it difficult to make definitive assessment of who had more wizardry. According to the stats above, Gwynn seems to have a slight advantage as he had most hits-HR-RBI/yr, struck out least and had highest BA...but he had lowest war.
I know the OP wanted to keep it to these 4, but it made me curious about my favorite player Lou Gehrig and how he might stack up vs these players. While I knew he was great, I did not realize he would stack up so well vs players who were identified as more "pure" hitters.
Gehrig H 204 HR 37 RBI 149 w/so 113/59 AVG .340 GIDP ? TWar 112.4
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