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Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards
But those aren't number based criterion those are opinion based. By the numbers Cash and Mantle were both better choices than Maris for MVP in 1961. All-Star is a popularity contest.
If you do care for those numbers Hodges had 8 all-stars and 3 Gold gloves (which only started near the end of his career)
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I wasn't justifying Rice, only comparing Rice to Cash. I don't mind Hodges at all, I just don't think he's a good case on the numbers.
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