per Baseball-reference.com. the 10 players who had the most statistically similar careers to Larry Walker
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Duke Snider (892) *
Ellis Burks (878)
Joe DiMaggio (870) *
Johnny Mize (861) *
Frank Thomas (849)
Chuck Klein (842) *
Manny Ramirez (841)
Edgar Martinez (837)
Bob Johnson (837)
Luis Gonzalez (834)
The guys with astericks are HOFers. It's an impressive list, 4 HOFers and 2 others (Thomas, Ramirez) who could well be also
a score of 1000 would be essentially a perfect match, no-one is over 900 meaning no-one of these guys is that similar to Walker..and the 2nd most similar player, Ellis Burks was nothing special (but like Walker hung on in the jacked up era)
just rambling now. is Walker a HOFer? as much as I like him, I say no. he has borderline HOF numbers, but he played in a offensive era , in a offensive ballpark
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