Jim Rice was one of the greatest players and most feared hitters in the history of not only the Boston Red Sox, but baseball as a whole.
Rice hit .300 or better seven times during his legendary 16-year career.
He came up to the big leagues back in 1974 and played until 1989, spending every season of his storied career in Boston with the Red Sox.
Today just so happens to be the MLB legend’s 70th birthday.
On Twitter, the Baseball Hall of Fame wished the slugger a happy birthday, while rattling off some very impressive stats that he put up during his career.
Jim Rice hit better than .300 seven times in his 16-year career with the @RedSox while becoming one of the most feared sluggers of his generation. The Hall of Famer turns 70 today!
📷 Milo Stewart Jr. pic.twitter.com/LZ8eOJ37dY
— National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ (@baseballhall) March 8, 2023
Rice was an eight-time All-Star, a two-time Silver Slugger, and an American League MVP over the course of his career.
He’s posted a career WAR of 47.7 and amassed a total of 2,452 hits.
He also hit 382 career home runs, hit for a lifetime average of .298, scored 1,249 runs, drove in 1,451, and had an OPS of .854.
Rice was a part of several great Red Sox teams, most notably the 1986 World Series team.
That team ultimately fell just short in the Fall Classic against the New York Mets, losing in seven games.
Rice’s best season came in 1978, the year of the famous Bucky Dent home run.
That year, Rice hit for an average of .315 while hitting a career-high 46 home runs and driving in 139 runs, which also was a career-high.
Rice was inducted into the Hall of Fame back in 2009 after a legendary career.
His power is something that Red Sox fans remember quite fondly.
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