Just Sayin'

The Baseball Analysts have a nice comparison between Jim Rice and Dwight Evans. The comparison is clearly designed to show Evans as the superior player.

Just wanted to throw this out (using one of the sets of stats used by the Baseball Analysts to compare Rice and Evans):

Player A: 10,740 PA/ 4,064 TB/ 1,412 BB/ 6,566 Outs/ 236 GIDP
Player B: 10,569 PA/ 4,230 TB/ 1,391 BB/ 6,965 Outs/ 227 GIDP

Based upon the above stats - a good case could be made that Player B was the better player (and I would be inclined to agree). Just for the record - Player A is Wade Boggs and Player B is Dwight Evans.

I would also point out that if you combined the Runs plus RBI - then you would have 2,854 for Evans (1,470 runs and 1,384 RBI) to just 2,527 for Boggs (1,513 runs and 1,014 RBI).