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Originally Posted by Jim65
He was certainly ONE of the best. Can you say he was better than George Foster in that 3 year period? Or Schmidt?
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Yes, during that period, he was better than Foster. In the 1980 baseball preview issue, Sports Illustrated had Parker and Jim Rice on the cover under the headline “Who’s the Best?” And made the case that at that moment, they were the two best inbaseball.