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Posted By: quan

phil,

memory can be a little hazy or selective. rice's home split was 374/546/920 at fenway, away he was 330/459/789. so while at home he was respectable, on the road he was mashing like juan rivera, bubba trammel, and chad tracy. while he had more pa/abs on the road, his hits/runs/2b/3b/hr/rbis etc total were all higher at home. and the most telling stat, his batting average when ball in play (babip) was .340 at home and .296 on the road. so those line drives you said that hit the green monster robbing him of hrs, would've more likely been flyouts anywhere else.

i agree with some sentiment out there that rice picked up more votes/steam when modern stat metrics were thrown in the face of these old time baseball writers and they stuck it right back by making an example of rice and voting him in.