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Posted By: howard

The comparisons to clemente are obviously only in regard to oliva before injuries curtailed his career. Until then he was as good a hitter as Clemente (significantly better if you compare the first several years of their careers) a better runner and while not as good defensively he did win one gold glove award. While he never led his team to a world championship he did bat.314 w/a .588 slugging average in the post season compared to Clemente's .318/449.