Informal Hall of Fame Opinion Poll

[Robextend]

I have to agree Bill Madlock was a nice player, but not anywhere close to Jim Rice.

[Anthony S.]

All this discussion about Jim Rice intrigued me, so I hunted down a few statistics. I'll preface this by saying I was perfectly happy to see Rice enter the Hall, and while I'm a born and raised Giants' fan, I've always liked the Sox.

I've always considered lifetime road statistics as a pretty good indicator of a player's true abilities, 'cause lets face it, there are certain parks that are/were ridiculously hitter friendly (Coors Field, The Metrodome, Fenway, etc.).

So here are the lifetime ROAD STATS of Jim Rice alongside several players who had very good careers, but aren't often mentioned as being Hall of Fame worthy.

Name....................AB HR RBI AVG OBP SLG

Jim Rice...............4150 174 649 .277 .330 .459
Jack Clark............4198 185 614 .266 .377 .480
Boog Powell.........3393 189 637 .266 .360 .477
Rocky Colavito.....3343 181 581 .271 .358 .489
George Foster......3568 164 602 .279 .338 .449
Frank Howard......3268 196 534 .266 .344 .491
Matt Williams.......3558 194 633 .269 .315 .491
Dick Allen............3185 168 540 .290 .372 .519
Joe Adcock...........2996 187 553 .278 .340 .526

[Anthony S.]

And damn this message board for scrunching up all those statistics I laboriously typed out.

[D. Bergin]

Sorry, but why is Jim Rice the only player who does or does not get into the Hall based on "Road" statistics?

This isn't the first time I've seen this argument........and it's always based around Jim Rice for some reason.

Lots of players are more comfortable at home then they are on the road. Fenway Park and Coors Field shouldn't even be uttered in the same breath, regardless of Rice's prowess at home.