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Originally Posted by 7nohitter
Jim Rice....a fantastic power hitter for a while....but not long enough.
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I disagree.
Between 1975 to 1986, only Mike Schmidt (440) and Dave Kingman (365) have more home runs than Rice's 350. During that span, nobody in baseball drove in more runs than Jim Rice's 1,276. Only Schmidt's .545 SLG was better than Jim Rice's .520 SLG in all of baseball. And Jim Rice had more hits, 2145, than any other player in baseball between 1975 and 1986.
For a twelve year span, he was arguably the best offensive force in the game, or at the very least, on par with Mike Schmidt.
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