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Or not.
Staub was a slugger only in his age 25 and 26 seasons.  After age 27 he never had a SLG higher than .480 and almost always had HR in the teens.  And at age 23, he had 44 doubles and only 10 HR -- the kind of line we might be anticpating from our man Dusty at that age.
Baines, on the other hand, was verrrry consistently a 16-25 HR guy from age 23 right up to age 40, and his career SLG is 35 points higher than Le Grande Orange (.465 to .431).
Baines, with speed and defense (of which he had neither), is HOF hands down, no?
Anyway, the most relevant numbers are these, from Ackley playing in the same league, same parks, many of the same pitchers:
Fr. 296 AB, 119 H, 20 2b, 3 3b, 10 HR, .591 SLG, 30 BB, 21 K
Soph. 278 AB, 116 H, 21 2b, 4 3b, 7 HR, .597 SLG, 53 BB, 27 K
Jr. 266 AB, 111 H, 18 2b, 4 3b, 22 HR, .763 SLG, 50 BB, 34 K
One of those numbers is not like the others.