Best right-handed hitters of all time?

[stejay]

1 Rogers Hornsby
2 Hank Aaron
3 Honus Wagner
4 Willie Mays
5 Jimmie Foxx
6 Frank Robinson
7 Ed Delahanty
8 Nap Lajoie
9 Cap Anson
10 Frank Thomas
12 Joe DiMaggio
13 Manny Ramirez

Why have you skipped no.11??

[stejay]

1. Hank Aaron
2. Rogers Hornsby
3. Honus Wagner
4. Willie Mays
5. Jimmie Foxx
6. Nap Lajoie
7. Joe DiMaggio
8. Frank Thomas
9. Frank Robinson
10. Alex Rodriguez
11. Mike Piazza
12. Manny Ramirez
13. Ed Delahanty
14. Mike Schmidt
15. Cap Anson
16. Johnny Bench
17. Ernie Banks
18. Hank Greenberg
19. Robin Yount
20. Dale Murphy

[GiambiJuice]

1. Hank Aaron
2. Rogers Hornsby
3. Honus Wagner
4. Willie Mays
5. Jimmie Foxx
6. Nap Lajoie
7. Joe DiMaggio
8. Frank Thomas
9. Frank Robinson
10. Alex Rodriguez
11. Cap Anson
12. Manny Ramirez
13. Ed Delahanty
14. Mike Schmidt
15. Johnny Bench
16. Mike Piazza
17. Ernie Banks
18. Hank Greenberg
19. Robin Yount
20. Dale Murphy

Bench over Piazza as hitters makes absolutely zero sense, no matter what stats you look at. If we're only talking offense, Bench probably doesn't even make the top 60 right handers.

[stejay]

Oh sorry man, my bad. Read the title wrong. I thought it said, top right handed batters of all time. I have edited it now.

[swingman24]

1.Rogers Hornsby
2.Honus Wagner
3.Jimmie Foxx
4.Joe Dimaggio
5.Willie Mays
6.Hank Aaron
7.Frank Thomas
8.Mike Piazza
9.Manny Ramirez
10.Alex Rodriguez
11.Vladimir Guerrero
12.Edgar Martinez
13.Mike Schimdt
14.Frank Robinson
15.Albert Pujols(assuming he plays at least another 7 or 8 years he will be higher)
16.Ralph Kiner
17.Hank Greenberg
18.Jeff Bagwell
19.Harmon Killebrew
20.Ernie Banks

Mantle should be there somewhere but being a switch hitter,was'nt sure how to rank him. This is not an exact rank because I did'nt have the time but I'm pretty sure this would be my top 20 more or less.

[Murderers Row]

why are right handed hitters in general not as good? 1 in every 9 people is left handed, so there's 8 times the talent pool of righties to choose from right?


anywho

Rogers Hornsby
Josh Gibson
Jimmie Foxx
Hank Aaron
Willie Mays
Joe Dimaggio
Alex Rodriguez (climbing season by season)
Vlad Guerrero (with SB's I rate him above Manny)
Manny Ramirez
Hank Greenberg

give Pujols a few years and he'll be on the list


today on the radio I was hearing people say Manny was the best right handed hitter they had seen in the last 40-50 years. not sure if I can agree on that.

Who were you listening to? Mike and The MadDog? Those guys are numbskulls. And Manny is a better hitter than Vlad, and it really isn't close.

[SHOELESSJOE3]

Because they face mostly right-handed pitchers, they're closer to first, right-field fences are often shorter, and they're exposed to more testosterone while in the fetus. Plus, they're more sinister.

How's that for a guess?

I'm putting that one on the top the greater number of RH pitchers.
One more thats probably minimal but over the course of a whole careeer could mean more hits over the long haul.

In the case when there is a runner on first and they choose to hold the runner on, the LH batter has a bigger hole to hit through, between the first and second baseman.

[SHOELESSJOE3]

I know that the Italian word for left is "sinistre"...one word that's handy to know for understanding directions ("destre" for right). The word "sinister" means what it does to us because of the long standing reputation of left handed people...

I'd say that Frank Thomas at his best was more impressive than Manny, although Manny has been far more consistent throughout his career. I like Manny's swing a lot better, Frank had a base hitter's stroke but 300 lbs of muscle behind it. Frank would hit some balls that would just scare the crud out of infielders.
I'm going to make a list by era, sort of...
Anson
Delahanty
Wagner
Hornsby
Beast
Greenberg
Clipper
Kiner
Mays
Aaron
F Robby
Allen
Killebrew
Schmidt
Frank Thomas
Manny
ARod

The advantage that lefty hitters have in compiling good numbers as hitters is huge...I think that a typical platoon differential is about .100 for OPS, which is a LOT.
One thing to remember is that not all lefty hitters are actually left handed...Cobb and Ted Williams, for example, were both righty throwers. The advantage to hitting left becomes obvious even at a young age...anyway, the breakdown of hitters into lefty/righty does not follow the population's proportions of left handed and right handed people.

Do you think that Cobb and Williams were aware as kids that there was an advantage to batting left handed,not to say that was not true with certain players. I think it's not often thought out that way, it's just the way they were first taught. I know a number of guys I played ball with over the years that threw RH and batted LH. In their case as I know of it was not by design, just happened that way.

My theory on why there is a greater number of RH batters, more so years ago was because their first instructors, older friends, brothers, their fathers taught them to bat the way they did RH.

I can say with certainty that the generation that came before me and even earlier was comprised of more RH batters, the public and even MLB.

Countless times I saw fathers teach their sons the batting stance for the first time, same sight. The more often RH dad putting his son in the RH batting stance and standing behind him showing him how to swing............bring back memories.

Also more RH throwers when I was a kid. Anyone remember playing as a kid, there was always one or two LH throwers who had to use a RH mitt because there were not that many LH mitts around.

I would say most RH hitters batted that way for no special reason, only that their first teacher were more often RH themselves.

[Bill Burgess]

I think that there are some things that one doesn't even have to think about. Batting RH/LH is one such thing. It's like writing. How many sit down and think about which hand to write with? No too many I'd imagine.

Same thing with sexual orientation. I know I never thought about it. I never asked myself if I liked girls or boys. Just naturally wanted to look at girls, think about them, fantasize about them, etc. Some things just happen, and we go with the path of least resistance. Who makes a conscious choice anyway? Few. Maybe some, but not most.

I don't think Dad's try to make their kids bat a particular way. Batting is determined by which side of one's brain is more dominant. If one's left side of their brains are more dominant, they write right-handed, bat RH, bowl RH, shoot a gun with their right hand, etc. The left side of the brain concerns order, organization, structure, while the right side of the brain concerns art, subjectivity, love, emotion, passion, etc.

That is not to say that anyone is all one side or the other. We're all all both, but one side will predominate. Like 60/40. We go back and forth all day long, every moment. It's called balance.

[Blackout]

Who were you listening to? Mike and The MadDog? Those guys are numbskulls. And Manny is a better hitter than Vlad, and it really isn't close.

colin cowherd was the first to say it, then the 2nd was one of the afternoon guys (on the mike tirico show or steven a smith)


i don't know if Manny is better than Vlad, it's easy to put up big numbers in a star studded lineup. Vlad had nobody in montreal.

[Blackout]

So, again, what do SBs have to do with hitting -- baserunning has nothing to do with hitting.

okay so i said "hitting"

i shouldve said "best offensive package" but whatever.

[Minstrel]

i don't know if Manny is better than Vlad, it's easy to put up big numbers in a star studded lineup.

No, it isn't. Baseball is by far the most one-on-one of the team sports. There's virtually no offensive benefit to be gained from the talent of one's teammates (I don't count runs or RBI, because those aren't actually individual measures, regardless of their being used as such).

There isn't even evidence of the "protection" effect in all studies done on the subject.

Ramirez has better numbers than Guerrero because he's a superior hitter. Cleveland and Boston won more than Montreal due to having all those other stars.

[Blackout]

No, it isn't. Baseball is by far the most one-on-one of the team sports. There's virtually no offensive benefit to be gained from the talent of one's teammates (I don't count runs or RBI, because those aren't actually individual measures, regardless of their being used as such).

There isn't even evidence of the "protection" effect in all studies done on the subject.

Ramirez has better numbers than Guerrero because he's a superior hitter. Cleveland and Boston won more than Montreal due to having all those other stars.

so are you telling me you don't see a difference in around Rondell White and Lee Stevens compared to Jim Thome?

[Minstrel]

so are you telling me you don't see a difference in around Rondell White and Lee Stevens compared to Jim Thome?

I see a difference in the players' talent. It shows why Cleveland was a superior team to Montreal. It has no effect on what kind of hitters Manny Ramirez or Vladimir Guerrero were.

[mtortolero]

No love for Albert Belle (143 OPS+) or The Big Mac (162 OPS+)?