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Posted By: Cy

Jay,

I have always thought that he was one of the top three first basemen. I just looked up his stats. Forget homeruns, averages, or even gold gloves. He knocked in 100 or more runs 9 of the last 10 years, with two of those years above 140! In that same basic span of years he scored 90 or more runs (I counted one year at 89 for a 90 run season-close enough for gov't work) 10 of the last 12 years! These are terrific stats. Runs win games.

In his last 12 years, Palmeiro has knocked in 1327 runs, scored 1192 runs, then subtract the 445 home runs that he hit during these twelve years sowe don't count them twice and he has accounted for 2074 runs! That's nearly 173 runs a year. Which firstbasemen has done better than that?

I vote him in!

Cy