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howardGwynn and Brett "couldn't crack the everyday lineups their rookie years like Puck"
Todd, I'm all for Puckett being in the Hall but that is a misleading statement and not helpful to his case for being enshrined. Yes, Puckett was a starter the minute he joined the Twins but that was when he was 24 years old. True, Brett did not start in what you consider his rookie year when he had a cup of coffee at age twenty but he was a starter in his true rookie year when he was only 21. Gwynn was in between the two becoming a full time starter in the middle of his second season when he was 23.