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Posted By: Anonymous

My guess is that Schell's system places a lot of weight upon batting average relative to the league, and relatively little weight upon homeruns and slugging percentage, and obp.

That would explain Gwynn and Carew being so high, as they hit for very high averages during periods when offense was much lower.

Subjectively I don't think Gwynn and Carew are anywhere near as productive as hitters as Bonds, Ruth, Williams. The point of baseball is to score runs and a team of Ruth's beats a team of Carew's anyday, and not just because of the Babe's pitching.

Gwynn and Carew are singles hitters who are probably the best of all time at singles hitting, but that doesn't make them the greatest hitters of all time.

And to the person who said that Pete Rose only broke Cobb's record because of all his at bats, Hank Aaron did the same thing. Longevity is not a crime.