re best second baseman thf ellis uchicago edu ted frank writes in article mar sarah albany edu js albnyvms bitnet writes personally i think that alomar is all hype he is producing incredibly now but in the long run he will never put up the numbers that sandberg has for this moment alomar may be the best but overall sandberg wins out by a long shot when sandberg was alomar s age he was putting up seasons with no power alomar s oba is points higher than sandberg s career high alomar s career high in doubles and triples is higher than sandberg s sandberg is still better than alomar but only because alomar hasn t reached his full potential yet alomar s got a year headstart on sandberg he has hits sandberg didn t have hits until he was and is likely to put up better career numbers than sandberg in everything except home runs he ll pass sandberg in stolen bases sometime in sandberg is not particulary known for his stolen bases what competition did alomar have sandberg came in a year after ripken and the same year as boggs gwynn and the other magicians so less attention was given to sandberg alomar is the only one in his class to be worth a mediocre besides the numbers don t count national league pitchers are much better pitchers larry on someone elses account mark horan horan cse unl edu ianr unlvm
