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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
Slugging average. On base percentage. MUCH better by those metrics which were known well before the fancy WAR and OPS stuff.
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.262 - his batting average wasn't HOF-caliber. Other stuff certainly was.
He was really good, but not great. Once they let Jackson in with his weak batting average, it helped promote the idea that 500 HR's was enough, and that nothing else counted - certainly batting average didn't. You could say that Reggie is one of the reasons that some people are talking about Dunn. Batting average obviously isn't important anymore.