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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
He was an overrated try-hard who's quest for the hits record made the teams he played on worse for the last decade of his career. And he occupied an offense first position at 1b for all of that where he couldn't field worth a damn AND provided C caliber offense from the dead bottom of the defensive spectrum.
His everything he did after his first Reds stint was a farce. He should've retired then.
As for teaching minor leaguers - He'd have been the guy teaching dudes to chop wood and other silly shit like that. He'd have been out of the game by 94 and then spent the next 20 years on every morning radio show bitching about how the game has changed. Because he was a stubborn ass who never had a shred of humility.
The cult following of Pete Rose has never made a drop of sense to me.
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I think he's one of the better old man performers of all-time. He had a .359 OBP at age 44! That's amazing. He led the NL in OBP at age 38 and had a 119 OPS+ at age 40. He wasn't an out maker.
He didn't become a full-time 1B until age 38. Before that, he was a very modern day player in a Ben Zobrist type way where he played all over the place. Pretty much everywhere except for SS.
Judging him by his managerial record, he posted a respectable .525 winning percentage. He had four straight second-place finishes (1985-88), which were forgotten about in pre-1994 baseball world, but would have gotten him into the dance these days.