Greatest Outfielder - 1990's

[Stars_Rangers_82]

This thread 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. You can choose up to three player's for the outfielder poll.

Here are the candidates for the 1990's Outfielder, and the poll will be closed at 12:20 CST on Tuesday, June 21st.

G R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG OPS WAR
Albert Belle 1336 881 1520 344 16 351 1099 619 838 86 0.299 0.376 0.581 0.957 36.9
Barry Bonds 1434 1091 1478 299 42 361 1076 1146 747 343 0.302 0.434 0.602 1.036 85.2
Bernie Williams 1096 754 1298 241 44 151 681 595 679 106 0.304 0.389 0.487 0.876 32.6
David Justice 1219 721 1211 212 19 234 796 699 750 44 0.284 0.383 0.506 0.889 32.8
Ken Griffey 1408 1002 1622 297 30 382 1091 703 901 151 0.302 0.384 0.581 0.965 65.9
Kenny Lofton 1096 852 1356 212 60 63 412 537 590 433 0.310 0.384 0.429 0.813 45.9
Larry Walker 1278 882 1423 314 36 262 851 527 794 189 0.313 0.390 0.571 0.961 42.6
Rickey Henderson 1261 932 1213 211 13 140 459 976 736 463 0.276 0.412 0.426 0.838 40.4
Sammy Sosa 1351 814 1366 198 35 332 928 417 1322 217 0.268 0.325 0.515 0.840 33.2
Tony Gwynn 1273 744 1713 330 33 88 688 389 188 97 0.344 0.388 0.476 0.865 32.3

[CoreyR]

My all-time favorite player is Ken Griffey Jr. He was very fun to watching growing up. I said that about Biggio, but man....I grew up in the 90's. Also voted for my dude David Justice, how can I not!?

[astrosfanatic]

This one is tough between Griffey and Bonds. I want to use the steroids card against Bonds, but we dont have proof of when he started. Concensus belief is that he started towards the very end of the decade, but he was still damn good in the beginning of the decade when he supposedly wasnt on the juice. This was Griffey's decade, and he had injury issues that kept him from being even better. He played the more valuable defensive position, but it's not like Bonds was a slouch in the OF. Bonds actually was a plus defender as well in this decade. So maybe a slight edge to Griffey because he played CF. Basepaths, the edge goes to Bonds, but Griffey wasnt a slouch here either. I just dont know with this one, it's a coin flip for me. If i was making a team with the 90's players, i want Bonds playing LF with Lofton in CF. So i go with Bonds

[Mudge]

I went with Bonds, Griffey, and Larry Walker. I know that Coors Field enhanced Walker's raw numbers, but I believe that WAR normalizes for that. And he stole a lot more bases than you'd think.

[Stars_Rangers_82]

I went with Bonds, Griffey, and Larry Walker.

great minds think alike, that's who i picked before anyone else did :smile:

[RickD]

I am going with Tony Gwynn. He had great stats but more importantly to me, he epitomized class!

[Stars_Rangers_82]

I am going with Tony Gwynn. He had great stats but more importantly to me, he epitomized class!

If you wanna go by class, in the 90's I'd pick Gwynn, Kirby Puckett, and still Griffey.

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I am going with Tony Gwynn. He had great stats but more importantly to me, he epitomized class!

If you wanna go by class, in the 90's I'd pick Gwynn, Kirby Puckett, and still Griffey.

[Old Sweater]

Barry Bonds. Juice or not, no one worked harder at the game. To bad he didn't have no personal skills.

[Scoobean]

Ken Griffey Jr. was the man in the 1990's. He had one of the smoothest swings in the game and he could outplay Bonds in the field anyday.

[Mickey Mental]

Ken Griffey Jr.

[BobH]

Kenn Griffey Jr.-BH

[soberdennis]

I would go with Bonds, Griffey, and Mr. Padre. The only thing the first two had over Gwynn was power, even though Tony showed some occasionally. Defensively, Tony outshone them all during the decade.

[wassit3]

sorry but a 20 WAR diff is to great to overcome, Barr B wins hands down here

[soberdennis]

My thought is that it had to be Bonds or Griffey. I do like the fact people are mentioning Gwynn though.