Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:09 pm
I'd really like to see an unknown star player like Jack Glasscock finally have a card. That 1e80 rating for SS certainly doesn't do his reputation as the best defensive SS of his era any justice. As a minimum he should be no worse than the 1 range shortstops of his era - Dahlen, Davis, Jennings - who are 1e40. Digging a little further into his Baseball Reference page, we find Glasscock had the highest Defensive WAR of any position player in 1889, he was also #2 in Offensive WAR just behind Dan Brouthers, which of course that means his total WAR was the highest in the league that year, ahead of notable SOM players Anson, Brouthers, Connor, Tiernan. The fact he doesn't have a SOM card, like his contemporaries already do, makes a strong and compelling case for us to add him to the player set.