George Hendrick vs Juan Gonzalez

[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.

George Hendrick

2048 games
7834 plate appearances
7129 at-bats
941 runs
1980 hits
343 doubles
27 triples
267 home runs
1111 RBI
59 stolen bases
47 caught stealing
567 walks
1013 strikeouts
.278 AVG
.329 OBP
.446 SLG
.775 OPS
116 OPS+
3178 total bases
1015 runs created
5.0 RC/G
94 AIR
.567 OW%
.699 Total Average
.249 Secondary Average
234.7 Win Shares
85.5 WSAB
31.8 WARP1
27.1 WARP3
26.9 rWAR
31.0 fWAR
29.3 sWAR

Juan Gonzalez

1689 games
7155 plate appearances
6556 at-bats
1061 runs
1936 hits
388 doubles
25 triples
434 home runs
1404 RBI
26 stolen bases
19 caught stealing
457 walks
1273 strikeouts
.295 AVG
.343 OBP
.561 SLG
.904 OPS
132 OPS+
3676 total bases
1222 runs created
6.7 RC/G
108 AIR
.623 OW%
.871 Total Average
.336 Secondary Average
233.1 Win Shares
113.1 WSAB
33.5 WARP1
36.8 WARP3
33.5 rWAR
38.6 fWAR
33.3 sWAR

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[Sockeye]

PVNICK, would you care you make your case for Hendrick? I'm not really seeing it...

[PVNICK]

If you aren't seeing it than why bother putting him up there? You remain mum on that question that I've asked several times.
Since you did ask. I felt that Hendrick was seen as a bit of an underachiever for the first few years of his career (OPS+ of 110, 120, 107, 127). In a different time, different place, and with me as his manager he would thrive and give me a first class CF. Juan Gone in a world sans PEDs who knows? I see Hendrick as being a far greater raw talent at the start of his career.

[Sockeye]

If you aren't seeing it than why bother putting him up there? You remain mum on that question that I've asked several times.
Since you did ask. I felt that Hendrick was seen as a bit of an underachiever for the first few years of his career (OPS+ of 110, 120, 107, 127). In a different time, different place, and with me as his manager he would thrive and give me a first class CF. Juan Gone in a world sans PEDs who knows? I see Hendrick as being a far greater raw talent at the start of his career.

Just because I'm not seeing it doesn't mean the BBF community may not see it. You've voted against Juan Gonzalez a few times now and for (IMO) inferior players. So just out of curiosity where abouts do you rank Juan Gonzalez all time? I have no problem saying he's in the top 95. I know that is probably generous and most others would have him 200-300. If you have Hendrick ahead of him I'm guessing he is outside your top 500 which causes me to believe you underate his abilities due to the aledged PED usage.
Gonzalez however was a top prospect in the Rangers organization so there is no reason to question his talent level.

[PVNICK]

It's a fair point. When I have done comparison questions once or twice it was with players I could have gone either way on. I haven't done any formal ranking overall. IIRC he didn't appear when I ranked by position at either LF (30 deep) or RF
(40).