Category Archives: ***Circle of Greats***

Circle of Greats 1980 Part 1 Runoff: Minnie Minoso vs. Scott Rolen

This post is for voting and discussion in a runoff election to decide the winner of the 141st round of balloting for the Circle of Greats (COG).  Here are the career AL and NL stats for our two candidates.

Player WAR OPS+ G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG OPS Pos Tm
Minnie Minoso 50.4 130 1835 7713 6579 1136 1963 336 83 186 1023 814 584 216 .298 .389 .459 .848 759H8/36 CHW-CLE-STL-WSA
Scott Rolen 70.1 122 2038 8518 7398 1211 2077 517 43 316 1287 899 1410 118 .281 .364 .490 .855 *5/H PHI-STL-TOR-CIN
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 2/28/2019.

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Circle of Greats 1978 Run-Off: Beltran vs. Dahlen

For the second year in a row, there was a tie vote in the annual Circle of Greats Balloting, so we will have a run-off election between the two tied players, Carlos Beltran and Bill Dahlen.

Beltran was bested in last year’s run-off against Roy Halladay, a contest that presented the challenge of evaluating an everyday player against a pitcher. This year’s contest is equally as challenging if not more so, comparing two everyday players whose careers are separated by more than a century. More after the jump.

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