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Hurts So Good

If Frank Thomas isn’t a Hall of Famer, writes Joe Posnanski, who is?

The Big Hurt is the best player in White Sox history adds Tom Verducci.

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4 comments

1 Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO   ~  Feb 15, 2010 8:23 pm

Great piece by Joe Poznanski. Amazing to think anyone would not vote for the Big Hurt!

2 matt b   ~  Feb 15, 2010 9:35 pm

Alex, this has nothing to do with Frank Thomas or Luke Cage, but you can't miss this piece:

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/02/the-early-woody-allen-.html

3 Alex Belth   ~  Feb 15, 2010 9:50 pm

Matt, this is classic. Good old FMU. You Da Manski. This deserves it's own post. Good lookin!

4 joejoejoe   ~  Feb 16, 2010 12:36 am

This is kind of a crazy comparison but fellow Chicago ballplayer Bruce Sutter allowed 118 fewer runs over his entire career vs. an average pitcher using ERA+. Using RC/27 divided by 9 x career games against a MLB average of 4.42 runs per game Frank Thomas was worth 1130 more runs vs. an average batter. So if scoring and/or preventing runs for your team is the measure than Frank Thomas was 10 times more valuable than HOFer Bruce Sutter during his career.

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