Ken Griffey Jr is the 2nd best ballplayer born in Donora, PA with a Nov 21st birthdate

If he never has the injury problems, could he have pushed to be the GOAT?

Have been randomly seeing this meme floating around and can't figure out why it all of a sudden became a meme.

Only difference was the meme said Ken Griffey Jr is the 2nd best left-handed ballplayer born in Donora, PA with a Nov 21st birthdate

Stan could have made the majors as a pitcher.

Wouldn’t have been the legendary player that he became, but was good enough to be a major leaguer as a pitcher.

You missed it

It’s “Ken Griffey Jr is the season best LEFT HANDED hitting baseball player born on Nov 21st in Danora, PA”

Ive never heard Musial simply referred to as "The Man", honestly....only ever Stan The Man.

The reference, as it was stated, escaped me too.

Analytics maybe. Those big 3 stats(BA, HR, RBI) favor Griffeys peak heavily.

Close but the actual stat is:

Ken Griffey Jr is second all-time in hits by a left-handed outfielder born in Donora, Pennsylvania on November 21st

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all I'm saying is, statistically speaking, the first 7 or so years of Mike Trouts career blow Griffeys peak out of the water

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You'd have to use advanced stats only to come to that conclusion.

Trout has a slightly better slash line, but Griffey's peak beats Trout's peak damn near everywhere else

using 162 game averages:
Griffey ('93 - '00)
Trout ('12 - '19)


Jr. - 52 HR
Trout - 39 HR

JR - 136 RBI
Trout - 103 RBI

Griffey - 116 strikeouts
Trout - 152 strikeouts

Griffey - 91 walks
Trout - 111 walks

Griffey - 125 runs scored
Trout - 123 runs scored

Both had 7 silver sluggers

Griffey - 7 gold gloves
Trout - 0 Gold Gloves

Griffey - seven 40+ Homer season
Trout - only three 40+ homer seasons in his entire career so far

Griffey - six 100+ RBI seasons (three with 140+ RBI)
Trout - three 100+ RBI seasons in his entire career (zero with 140+ RBI)

2nd most hits. Not 2nd best player. Griffey >>>>> Musial