Could not agree more, G. Always have looked at it that way.
The Q always comes up, would you prefer 6 years of Sandy Koufax or 16 years of Jamie Moyer?
Stars & Scrubs rides again, with your superlative pennants chart. Give me Koufax for 6 years, and I'll leverage his impact into seasons worth remembering... the other 10 years, I'll go about attempting to find another Felix or somebody...
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Ichiro is definitely a Honda Civic by comparison to this group, and no surprise that Civics make pennants harder work than Lexuses do.
Agree 100% that Ichiro is at his best as a magnificent complementary piece -- as were Pete Rose, Rod Carew, etc.
Imagine Ichiro leading off for the Yankees or Red Sox. ... when the Indians had Belle and Manny and Thome, that's when Kenny Lofton was impossible to deal with.
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I suspect that almost all HOF GM's, every sport, recognize that Stars & Scrubs is the right way to go. But there are probably some guys, Pat Gillick e.g., who can't bring themselves to deal with Terrell Owens and so play Civics for personal reasons.
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