QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ May 7, 2006 -> 12:51 PM)
Anything above .950 in 10,000 plate appearances (give or take 1000) is golden, though. It'll be good enough for Top 20 or Top 25 in the history of the game IIRC.
This is true but at the same time a 1.000+ would have put him in the same club as Babe Ruth (1.1638) Ted Williams (1.1155) Lou Gehrig (1.0798) Barry Bonds (1.0533) Todd Helton (1.0404) Jimmie Foxx (1.0376) Albert Pujols (1.0372) Hank Greenberg (1.0169) Rogers Hornsby (1.0103) and Manny Ramirez (1.0076) as the only players in the history of the game to put up a 1.000+ OPS for a career, though Manny, Helton and Pujols could possibly drop out of this club by the time their careers are over. That is one hell of an exclusive club.