Best Switch Hitters of the Decade's

[ragecage]

Just messing around here. What do you guys think?

2000's: Chipper Jones
1990's: Roberto Alomar
1980's: Eddie Murray
1970's: Pete Rose
1960's: Pete Rose
1950's: Mickey Mantle

Kind of what I have so far without much thought into it.

[HoustonGM]

By OPS+, min. 3000 PA:

2000s: Lance Berkman 148 (Chipper Jones is second at 147, Berkman has about 400 more PA's)
1990s: Chipper Jones 137 (Bernie Williams is second at 130 with about 1,600 more PA's)
1980s: Eddie Murray 141 (Tim Raines second at 133)
1970s: Reggie Smith 142 (Ken Singleton second at 139. Pete Rose at 128 is third with about 1,500 more PA's than both)
1960s: Mickey Mantle 171 (Pete Rose is a distant second at 123)
1950s: Mickey Mantle 173
1940s: Augie Galan and Roy Cullenbine 135 (Cullenbine has about 800 more PA's)
1930s: Ripper Collins 127
1920s: Frankie Frisch 119
1910s: Max Carey and Miller Huggins 110 (Carey has nearly 2,000 more PA's)
1900s: John Anderson and Dan McGann 115
1890s: George Davis 126
1880s: Bill McClellan 92

[200tang]

Is this just offensive or as an overall player? Because if it's by overall then wouldn't Jones be higher than Berkman in the 200's? Maybe not, I haven't looked in depth.

[HoustonGM]

Well, I just listed the OPS+ leaders, which are obviously only offensive.

[ragecage]

I meant it just purely offensive. Sorry for the confusion.

[200tang]

Well, I just listed the OPS+ leaders, which are obviously only offensive.

I know you did, I was referring to the original question.

I meant it just purely offensive. Sorry for the confusion.

Alright then. Thanks for the clarification.

[DiceDig]

there were switch hitters back in the 1800's? wow.

[dps]

there were switch hitters back in the 1800's? wow.

Oh yeah. As long as there's been baseball there's been switch hitters. It does seem odd, since back then the notion that there was such a thing as a platoon advantage was just a theory--nobody that I'm aware of platooned players before the 1914 Braves (though I'd guess that somebody probably did on minor league teams that we don't know about), but certainly some individual players switch hit.

I don't know why HGM didn't extend his list to the 1870's. I'd guess that Bob Ferguson would be the leader, but I haven't checked.

[OregonDuck1989]

Well, I just listed the OPS+ leaders, which are obviously only offensive.

I meant it just purely offensive. Sorry for the confusion.

Yeah you guys are really offensive.

Thread hijacked.

[200tang]

I don't know why HGM didn't extend his list to the 1870's. I'd guess that Bob Ferguson would be the leader, but I haven't checked.

He's lazy.


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[HoustonGM]

I don't know why HGM didn't extend his list to the 1870's. I'd guess that Bob Ferguson would be the leader, but I haven't checked.

Simply because when I ran the play index search, nobody showed up...but I just realized that that's because I had the PA threshold set to 3,000 and I'd bet there weren't many players that reached that in the 1870's due to the short schedule. That threshold may have also left some players off in the 1880's.