[chaddurbin]

darrell, dwight, dewey...blah. by any name he was still more valuable to his team than rice.

4-5 good years with alot of help from his ballpark does not make a hall of famer. he was an above average hitter, with minimal defense, and no speed...who doesn't get on base. put him in another park with a normal lf, and he's kirk gibson (except gibson could run and catch better...probably hit better too if he was playing half his games at fenway even tho he's lefty)

the grassroot movement to get rice in amongst old-timer voters as a giant middle finger to the new-school metrics crowd notwithstanding...rice is not a hof'er.



.....also there's not much skill in retrieving balls hit off a short left field that would've been outs otherwise...which i'm sure alot of rice's opponents had to do when he was at bat