Willie Mays was one in all a form – actually.
Mays, who died this week on the age of 93, is the one participant in baseball historical past to have 3,000 hits, 600 house runs and double-digit Gold Glove Awards.
There isn’t a argument that Mays is a top-five participant within the historical past of baseball – a lot argue he’s No. 1.
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The MLB legend hit 660 house runs in his illustrious profession. (Getty Photographs)
Mays was a real five-tool participant, and it’s practically inconceivable to search out anybody like him.
Nevertheless, Bob Costas listed just a few (two present and three former) who remind him of the legendary Mays.
The broadcaster was requested on OutKick’s “Do not @ Me with Dan Dakich” who the most effective residing ballplayer is true now, and he had just a few individuals in thoughts.
“I am in all probability overlooking any person. Shohei Ohtani is making a case, Aaron Decide is making a case,” Costas mentioned.
The 2-way star in Ohtani, after all, is doing issues that not even Babe Ruth did when he was each a pitcher and a hitter. Decide, in the meantime, may threaten his personal AL file of 62 house runs this season.
Nevertheless, he needed to debate just a few who’ve retired throughout the final couple of many years.
Outfielder Willie Mays, #24 of the San Francisco Giants, swings and watches the flight of his ball towards the New York Mets throughout a circa early Seventies Main League Baseball sport at Shea Stadium in Flushing, New York. Mays performed for the Giants from 1951-72. (Concentrate on Sport/Getty Photographs)
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“I’d say the wholesome, younger Ken Griffey Jr., the pre-steroid Barry Bonds. You might make an excellent case for these gamers. As a hitter, Albert Pujols was a terror in his Cardinals years… When you have a look at Albert Pujols’ numbers as a Cardinal, then we’re in Ted Williams territory, or fairly near it.”
From 1990 to 2000, Griffey hit .299 with a .963 OPS, hitting 422 house runs whereas profitable 10 Gold Glove Awards. As for Bonds, he invented the 350-350 membership within the 1997 season, having already received three MVPs and 7 Gold Gloves. His numbers after that 12 months are absurd, as properly, however that’s when he’s extensively imagined to have begun taking performance-enhancing medicine.
Pujols is within the 3,000-600 membership with Mays (in reality, he and Hank Aaron are the one members of the three,000-700 membership). In 12 seasons as a Cardinal, Pujols hit .326 with a 1.031 OPS.
Mays made his MLB debut as a 20-year-old taking part in for the New York Giants. He would go on to be a 24-time All-Star, two-time MVP, 12-time Gold Glover, two-time All-Star Recreation MVP, Rookie of the Yr and 1954 World Sequence champion in an illustrious profession that led to a simple Corridor of Fame induction.
Willie Mays, #24 of the New York Giants, goes again to catch the batted ball by Vic Wertz, #23 of the Cleveland Indians, throughout Recreation 1 of the 1954 World Sequence on Sept. 29, 1954 on the Polo Floor V in New York, New York. The Mays catch is called “The Catch.” (Bruce Bennett Studios through Getty Photographs Studios/Getty Photographs)
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Mays was identified for his capacity to wow crowds with thunderous house runs, slick baserunning and miraculous performs in heart discipline. One of the iconic performs ever in MLB got here in that 1954 World Sequence and was without end referred to as “The Catch.”
He ended his profession with the New York Mets in 1973, the place his No. 24 can also be retired.
Fox Information’ Scott Thompson contributed to this report.
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