Always seemingly forgotten in Schmidt's legacy is he had to play on that God awful turf/concrete field at the Vet. Statistically he was a better hitter at home, but you can't convince me the constant aches and pains from not playing on grass those 81 games a year didn't hurt his total numbers.
I'm in the Schmidt is the GOAT 3B camp - it's amazing he put up a 5 or higher bWAR in 14 straight seasons, and was higher than 6 in all but one of those. Perennial MVP candidate with the bat, second best defensive third basemen ever behind Brooks.
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