I think Clemente is the most obvious example of pure stats not showing everything...in his case not nearly everything.
The big difference, IMO, between Kaline's power numbers and Clemente's can be attributed to Clemente playing in Forbes Field for so long. If I'm remembering correctly (and that's a coin flip these days), Roberto was a line-drive, spray hitter and left-center and right-center in Forbes would be quite a poke!
I'll take Clemente eight-days-a-week and thrice on Sunday!
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"A life is not important except in the impact it has on others lives" - Jackie Robinson
“If you have a chance to make life better for others and fail to do so, you are wasting your time on this earth.”- Roberto Clemente
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