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Originally Posted by Tabe
Career 172 OPS+, good for 7th all-time. 6th if you ignore Mike Trout. The other five are Barry Bonds and four guys whose careers started (or ended) before WW2. Led the league in that category 8 times.
Put another way - of all the guys whose careers are over, and were played entirely in the integrated era, Mantle is 2nd in OPS+. To a steroid guy.
Mantle was an incredibly great player who somehow is also underrated.
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Mantle, like Bonds, drew a phenomenal number of walks.
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