Harold Baines vs Carlos Delgado

[Sockeye]

I'm going to run a series of polls with the winner advancing each time to face another opponent. Will leave each poll up for a week. I'll try to provide as much statistical information as possible. Hopefully we can get some lively insightful debates going and bring to light some overlooked players from yesteryear.
If you could pick between these two players to start your franchise with which would you pick? Please consider all relavent information. Their careers as a whole, peak performance, hitting, fielding, baserunning, positional value, league quality, etc.

Harold Baines

2830 games
11092 plate appearances
9908 at-bats
1299 runs
2866 hits
488 doubles
49 triples
384 home runs
1628 RBI
34 stolen bases
34 caught stealing
1062 walks
1441 strikeouts
.289 AVG
.356 OBP
.465 SLG
.820 OPS
121 OPS+
4604 total bases
1606 runs created
5.8 RC/G
102 AIR
.585 OW%
.770 Total Average
.283 Secondary Average
312.7 Win Shares
142.7 WSAB
34.0 rWAR
45.3 fWAR
33.9 sWAR

Carlos Delgado

2035 games
8657 plate appearances
7283 at-bats
1241 runs
2038 hits
483 doubles
18 triples
473 home runs
1512 RBI
14 stolen bases
8 caught stealing
1109 walks
1745 strikeouts
.280 AVG
.383 OBP
.546 SLG
.929 OPS
138 OPS+
3976 total bases
1588 runs created
7.7 RC/G
110 AIR
.678 OW%
.974 Total Average
.419 Secondary Average
303.8 Win Shares
161.2 WSAB
40.4 rWAR
46.3 fWAR
47.7 sWAR

Previous results

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Dave Kingman vs Dante Bichette
Dave Kingman vs Jose Guillen
Dave Kingman vs Dave Philley
Dave Kingman vs Shano Collins
Dave Kingman vs Eric Karros
Dave Kingman vs Charlie Grimm
Charlie Grimm vs Juan Gonzalez
Juan Gonzalez vs Bill Buckner
Juan Gonzalez vs Ruben Sierra
Juan Gonzalez vs Gee Walker
Juan Gonzalez vs Patsy Donovan
Juan Gonzalez vs Joe Carter
Juan Gonzalez vs Tommy Davis
Juan Gonzalez vs Charlie Jamieson
Juan Gonzalez vs Jeff Conine
Juan Gonzalez vs Hal Chase
Juan Gonzalez vs Lee May
Juan Gonzalez vs Joe Kuhel
Juan Gonzalez vs Willie Horton
Juan Gonzalez vs Chris Chambliss
Juan Gonzalez vs Hal McRae
Juan Gonzalez vs Andres Galarraga
Juan Gonzalez vs George Hendrick
Juan Gonzalez vs Garret Anderson
Juan Gonzalez vs George Burns
Juan Gonzalez vs Wally Moses
Juan Gonzalez vs Del Ennis
Juan Gonzalez vs Don Baylor
Juan Gonzalez vs Shawn Green
Juan Gonzalez vs Stuffy McInnis
Juan Gonzalez vs Wally Pipp
Juan Gonzalez vs Gary Matthews
Juan Gonzalez vs Bobby Bonilla
Juan Gonzalez vs Mickey Vernon
Mickey Vernon vs Jose Canseco
Mickey Vernon vs Carlos Delgado
Carlos Delgado vs B.J. Surhoff
Carlos Delgado vs Ken Griffey Sr
Carlos Delgado vs Wally Joyner
Carlos Delgado vs Cecil Cooper
Carlos Delgado vs Jim Bottomley

[willshad]

Who on earth voted for Baines?

[Honus Wagner Rules]

Who on earth voted for Baines?

If you click on the poll results you'll say the voters' names.

[Cowtipper]

Who on earth voted for Baines?

He always votes for the 'other' guy, no matter who it is.

[westsidegrounds]

Haaaaaarold .....

.... is comfortably ahead in win shares and runs created - stats which all true sabremetricians understand are key.

Key, I tell ya!

[Sockeye]

Haaaaaarold .....

.... is comfortably ahead in win shares and runs created - stats which all true sabremetricians understand are key.

Key, I tell ya!

I'll see your win shares and runs created and raise you win shares above bench and runs created per game...

[ol' aches and pains]

I don't care what the stats and Sabermetrics say. I saw most of Baines' career. I'll take my chances with Harold. Call it "the intangibles", if you like.

[willshad]

Baines was a solid hitter who played forever, but he just is not in Delgado's class as a hitter. Delgado probably had 7 or 8 seasons that were better than Baines' best season.

[TomBodet]

Delgado is the better hitter, Baines is a longtime fave. I voted Baines just because.

[pheasant]

Delgado blows Baines out of the water. Delgato averaged out 50 more total bases than Baines per 162 games. Both were marginal defensively.