07-21-2010, 01:08 AM
I got these stats from baseball-reference:
Career WAR for Cub 3rd basemen
Ron Santo 66.4 (including a monster 1967 season when he was, by far, the best player in the National League, according to WAR)
Aramis Ramirez 21.5 (and he got a decent amount of those in Pittsburgh)
Stan Hack 54.8 (wildly underrated. Played 16 years, all with the Cubs, in the 30's and 40's. Helped Cubs to 4 World Series. FOUR!)
Over 50 WAR for a career is solid HOF territory. BTW, former Cub Ron Cey (who had most of his good years with the Dodgers), had a surprisingly high 52 WAR. Must have been a much better fielder than I remember.
Harry Steinfeldt had a pretty good career (30 WAR), and besides, he's the answer to a trivia question: When Tinker, Evers and Chance were roaming the Cub infield, who was the 3rd baseman?
Career WAR for Cub 3rd basemen
Ron Santo 66.4 (including a monster 1967 season when he was, by far, the best player in the National League, according to WAR)
Aramis Ramirez 21.5 (and he got a decent amount of those in Pittsburgh)
Stan Hack 54.8 (wildly underrated. Played 16 years, all with the Cubs, in the 30's and 40's. Helped Cubs to 4 World Series. FOUR!)
Over 50 WAR for a career is solid HOF territory. BTW, former Cub Ron Cey (who had most of his good years with the Dodgers), had a surprisingly high 52 WAR. Must have been a much better fielder than I remember.
Harry Steinfeldt had a pretty good career (30 WAR), and besides, he's the answer to a trivia question: When Tinker, Evers and Chance were roaming the Cub infield, who was the 3rd baseman?
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