Which Player Do You Want?

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Originally Posted by oldjudge

It's more than batting average, DiMaggio also dominated in RBI's and runs scored, two pretty important categories. DiMaggio lost three years in his prime because of the war and was not the same player when he returned that he was when he left. Although it is a moot point since they are close on HRs, I think HRs is a very overrated stat. A batters job is to create runs either by driving them in or scoring them. How he accomplishes this is secondary to how well he does this. DiMaggio was superior in both RBIs and runs scored.
As for their off field personalities after they retired neither was close to being a model citizen.

I listed Runs. DiMaggio led the League in Runs all of one time. Mantle led the League in Runs 5x. Why did this happen? One main reason is that Mantle led the League in OBP 5x and DiMaggio never did. Mantle also stole bases (7 top 10 finishes), and stole them at a high percentage (top 3 in the Leage in stolen base percentage each year from 1957 thru 1960).

Are you seriously saying that Home Runs are overrated but RBI's are not?