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Eighteen seasons gave him 2,470 hits, 288 home runs, 400 stolen bases, 1,476 walks, 574 doubles and a .291 average. Five men have hit 280 home runs and stolen 400 bases: Barry Bonds, Bobby Bonds, Rickey Henderson, Craig Biggio and him. He had nine seasons of 20 home runs and 20 steals, and one of 30 and 40, in 2004.

The skills were the ones the era undervalued and the next one prized. He led the National League in doubles once and triples once and was chosen for only two All-Star teams in eighteen years, which for that record is close to absurd. He won a Gold Glove in 2005 and the Home Run Derby the same summer, in Detroit.

Houston lost him to Tampa Bay in the 1997 expansion draft, and Tampa Bay traded him to Philadelphia for Kevin Stocker six days later, which is how the Phillies came to have his best nine years. He got 22 votes of 397 on his first ballot in 2020 and 77 of 394 in 2025, which is the rare case of a case being made after the fact and working.