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Posted By: Anonymous

If Riggs Stephenson wasn't injured in college(he badly injured his shoulder playing football) maybe he would have a shot. Basically he couldn't throw at all, and that is the primary reason his career was so short, and why he wasn't a full-time player for most of his career.

What you have left is a .336 batting average in a severly inflated offensive era, and no homerun power, along with being a major defensive liability.

Don't forget that Biggio also was an all-star at Catcher and Second Base, a combo which I don't think anyone else can match. Also his skillset is the kind that gets overlooked in that he wasn't a huge power hitter, and didn't put up huge steal total, or hit for really high averages. He just did everything well.