re winfield s spot on the all time greats team in article c wewd kto murdoch acc virginia edu drw l delmarva evsc virginia edu david robert walker writes in article blue cis pitt edu dtate pitt edu david m tate writes winfield can t touch frank robinson or mel ott as far as i can tell you d also have a hard time convincing me to rate him better than or equal to clemente two sets of numbers career equivalent average and equivalent runs ruth aaron ott robinson clemente winfield ruth is in a class by himself for both rate eqa and total eqr performance aaron runs over everybody in the total category ott and robinson who lead winfield in both categories could be safely put ahead of ahead of him reggie too although he is barely ahead these numbers are normalized for league and park clemente is held down by some really anemic offensive production in his earliest years and was still productive when he died it is reasonably safe to assume he had runs more he could have gotten still jackson waner clemente and winfield form a pretty tight knot yes but a we were talking about peak level not career averages and b clemente was the best fielding rf of all time as far as anyone can tell i did a quick scan last night looking for players with a peak comparable to or better than winfield in my quick n dirty subjective judgement you could make good cases for ruth aaron ott robinson clemente kaline maris klein jackson waner and probably a few others this is not a knock on winfield but a comment on his consistency all of those other players had awesome stretches and very good stretches while winfield has been more uniformly excellent hall of fame absolutely top peak i m not so sure top total career value yes almost certainly david m tate my free agent says he will be no one s but mine dtate pitt edu not even should steinbrenner himself try to seduce him prof of story probs he says but what player says to owner the big catullus write it on the wind or swift running water
