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.
Wally Moses
2012 games
8254 plate appearances
7356 at-bats
1124 runs
2138 hits
435 doubles
110 triples
89 home runs
679 RBI
174 stolen bases
81 caught stealing
821 walks
457 strikeouts
.291 AVG
.364 OBP
.416 SLG
.779 OPS
109 OPS+
3060 total bases
1117 runs created
5.5 RC/G
103 AIR
.578 OW%
.746 Total Average
.250 Secondary Average
233.9 Win Shares
84.1 WSAB
34.2 WARP1
23.6 WARP3
28.8 rWAR
40.9 fWAR
29.7 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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