Best players to manage in the major leagues

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Originally Posted by bk400

It tells you how amazing Pujols' 12 years at STL were when you consider that when he was with the Angels he was only 6 percent above league average (as RATS60 points out above).

(His stats over 12 years in STL: 88.7 WAR, .326/.417/.614, OPS+169)

It's an odd argument in support of a player to say, "Look how great he was over part of his career, to offset how average he was over the rest of it."

Wagner won 8 batting titles instead of just one, won a World Series, led in stolen bases numerous times, and was the best of his time, by far, at a far more difficult position than Pujols ever played. And Wagner would've had more home runs, obviously, had the ball in his day not been made of mush. And his lifetime batting average tops even Pujols' peak years at St. Louis.