Originally Posted by cardsagain74

My choice is Pete Rose.

Other than hitting singles and running over catchers in all-star games, he didn't really do anything well. Yes two gold gloves, but his defensive WAR numbers show him as a consistent liability in the field. Terrible base stealer (in an era when teams counted on their table setter to steal a lot of em). Even with his durability, the only reason he got near Cobb's record was the abundance of plate appearances at the top of the big red machine for all those years.

Barely hit over .300 lifetime playing in a fairly hitter-friendly park for many years.
Lifetime OPS well inferior to Gwynn and Carew, despite those guys playing on bad teams with less protection behind them.

I think that about covers it