Greatest Outfielder - 1980's

[Stars_Rangers_82]

Here is a new series of thread's I'm starting. This will allow you to vote for who in your opinion feel is the greatest player at his position for a particular decade. The criteria I will be using is 1,000 games played for position players, 250 games started for SP's, and 400 appearances for relief pitcher's.

The first group up for votes is the 1980's outfielder's, and the poll will be closed at 2:30 CST on Monday, June 20th.

Here are the candidates:

G R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG OPS
Andre Dawson 1396 811 1539 290 53 250 895 362 785 199 0.285 0.332 0.497 0.829
Dale Murphy 1537 938 1553 257 31 308 929 784 1268 134 0.273 0.361 0.491 0.852
Dave Parker 1299 635 1372 267 19 185 809 347 788 59 0.277 0.324 0.451 0.775
Dave Winfield 1314 804 1441 258 41 223 899 552 722 99 0.289 0.358 0.492 0.850
Dwight Evans 1466 956 1497 306 43 256 900 919 1023 37 0.280 0.385 0.497 0.882
Harold Baines 1428 679 1547 276 44 189 835 449 809 29 0.288 0.341 0.462 0.803
Jim Rice 1287 734 1476 224 30 210 868 434 823 19 0.291 0.348 0.471 0.819
Ken Griffey 1200 582 1174 201 33 102 519 373 499 83 0.287 0.345 0.427 0.773
Rickey Henderson 1383 1122 1507 248 44 137 535 962 697 838 0.291 0.403 0.436 0.839
Tim Raines 1269 866 1467 262 76 87 490 705 520 583 0.303 0.391 0.442 0.833

[Mudge]

Anyone who knows me will know that there is no contest here: Dwight Evans.

[astrosfanatic]

i'll take Rickey Henderson please.

[yankeebiscuitfan]

Andre Dawson for me.

[Mudge]

FYI: WAR (1980-1989)

Henderson: 72.3
D. Evans: 47.5
Murphy: 45.9
Dawson: 44.6
Winfield: 31.7
Rice: 30.8

[RickD]

Due to his ability at leadoff and his all time SB record I will go with Rickey Henderson.

[WilsonC]

Henderson takes this one handily.

[Mickey Mental]

Dwight Evans

[Mudge]

Dwight Evans

Good man!

Sadly, Henderson was in fact more productive, but as far as I'm concerned, Dewey has never, ever, really gotten his due (so to speak), and so my bias determined my vote here.

[Mickey Mental]

Good man!

Sadly, Henderson was in fact more productive, but as far as I'm concerned, Dewey has never, ever, really gotten his due (so to speak), and so my bias determined my vote here.

Nobody has ever handled right field in Fenway the way Evans did. One of the few guys in baseball I loved watching play defense. Those balls that bounced around in that RF corner (if you can call it that), that usually turned into triples, Evans would scoop up and hold guys to a single. His ability to read the angles and that arm of his may never be rivaled by a Sox RF'er again.

[Scoobean]

I have always found Dale Murphy to be very underrated as an outfielder. He could hit for average and also had tremendous power. He should be considered for the HOF.