I'm a big fan of Rose's and his style of play and think he should be in the HOF, but at the end of his career he became the epitome of a stat compiler. He hung around and inserted himself into his own lineup for the sole purpose of getting the record. This was often at his team's own expense because Tony Perez was still hitting .328/.396/.470 in 1985. His last 4 seasons he had 107 hits, 121 hits, 107 hits, and 56 hits and batted a combined .253/.346/.303 and had a whopping 2 home runs in his last 1,748 plate appearances (all of this while playing first base). For comparison, his career numbers are .303/.375/.409. Regardless, he only has 67 more hits than Cobb and did it in 2,619 more AB's. Rose got hammered in The Diamond Appraised by Craig Wright. Wright wrote: