Carlos Delgado vs Mickey Vernon

[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.

Mickey Vernon

2409 games
9838 plate appearances
8731 at-bats
1196 runs
2495 hits
490 doubles
120 triples
172 home runs
1311 RBI
137 stolen bases
90 caught stealing
955 walks
869 strikeouts
.286 AVG
.359 OBP
.428 SLG
.787 OPS
116 OPS+
3741 total bases
1344 runs created
5.4 RC/G
99 AIR
.595 OW%
.736 Total Average
.257 Secondary Average
292.6 Win Shares
122.6 WSAB
41.0 WARP1
26.5 WARP3
30.1 rWAR
44.5 fWAR
21.4 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
48.6 WARP1
50.7 WARP3
40.4 rWAR
46.3 fWAR
47.7 sWAR

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[rsuriyop]

Pretty tough. But I'm gonna have to go with Delgado on this one. His far greater offensive skills more than make up for his shorter career and inferior defense.

[willshad]

How is this 'pretty tough'? Delgado is probably closer to Mickey Mantle than he is to Mickey Vernon.