OT - Best 3B ever?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by chipperhank44

Feel like this thread is pretty biased by "good ole days syndrome"

We can argue all day about the best overall 3B, but those who will not admit that Chipper is the best hitting 3B ever have simply let their emotions cloud their judgement.

Chipper had a .401 Career OBP and .529 Career SLG. Both better than Schmidt and Brett. His OPS is 22 and 43 points higher than Schmidt and Brett respectively.

Sure Schmidt hit more HR than Chipper, but Chipper still managed to have more RBI (aren't RBI the intrinsic value of a HR?).

Also, Despite Schmidt's HR lead, both Brett and Chipper have more career XBH than Schmidt.

For their Careers Chipper and Brett both walked more than they struck out, Schmidt did not.

This isn't apples to apples, but Chipper also hit .300 from both sides of the plate.

Baseball reference has no sentiment, just objective era-neutral data. Schmidt 1st, Chipper 5th. Nuf ced.

[Bored5000]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Baseball reference has no sentiment, just objective era-neutral data.

Exactly. With all due respect, some of the names being suggested in this thread as being better than Schmidt are laughable. Baseball-reference has no hometown bias, and says that the case for best third baseman of all-time really isn't close. I don't think I have ever seen any disucussion of this topic where there seems to be so much "It's anybody but Schmidt" posturing.