Big Bad Vlad?

Ok, well I was not totally sold on Vladimir Guerrero but I took a look at the numbers and I guess I have to change my mind. I know he kills us every time he's in the box cause he swings at anything remotely in the area and makes contact too, but that was not enough for me. So I started digging, better yet I looked at a direct comparison with another Ranger killer Jim Thome, Thome seems to hit homers of us at will so I took a comparative look and here is what I found. Averaged over 162 games,

            PA  AB   R    H  HR RBI
Thome 671 547 105 152  40    111
Vlad    685 613 104 197  36    115

            SB BB SO   BA    OBP  SLG  OPS OPS+ TB
Thome    1 115 164 0.277 0.404 0.557 0.961  146   304
Vlad      15  60   76 0.321 0.386 0.568 0.954  145    348

Factor in Thome is almost 40 and Vlad 5 years younger Vlad is most certainly the better pick.