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Originally Posted by wheatrich
What straws is La Russa grasping at? His argument that Baines is a HOF is because he is clearly better than Al Oliver even though Al Oliver has like 10% more WAR than Baines?
Sure, he can be better than Oliver, but guess what, Oliver isn't a HOF either, and he didn't even make a second ballot during his candidacy...
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At one point Russo brought up Al Oliver, who had similar career statistics to Baines (and a higher career WAR, 43.7 to 38.7).
"Al Oliver is not better than he is, no disrespect to Al Oliver," La Russa responded. "I used to watch you because I thought you knew the game. I'm going to start calling you clueless."