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Originally Posted by rats60
Hernandez was a better hitter. OPS+ tells us that. You use choose to use raw stats that ignore Mattingly's home park was very hitter friendly. The stats you use are worthless unless you put them in context of the field they were performed on. Baseball is the only sport where the field of play isn't constant, so you cannot use raw stats to compare players. Stats say Hernandez was a better hitter. Defensive stats say Hernandez was a better fielder. Better hitter plus better fielder means he was the better player. No need to use WAR when the other stats point to the same result.
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I'm sorry but strictly looking at OPS+ does not tell you who is a better player. Hernandez's OPS+ is 1 point higher than Mattingly's too. I would say that differential is negligible and not a standard for who was better.
It should also go without saying that Mattingly appeared on this ballot at all while Hernandez did not.