Ryne Sandberg was by far the best second basemen of his time and other than perhaps Joe Morgan, the best of the past 50 years or so.
The guy was great with both the glove and stick, he didn't have long enough career to pile up the 3000 hits or 500 hr kind of bedrock career stats.
As pointed out above, the odd ending of his career for a year and a half, which was followed with a couple of years of not nearly the same hitting consistency, probably raises some questions.
Sandberg is also a very rare right handed hitter that had a real smooth looking swing.
― earlnash, Thursday, 8 January 2004 23:45 (twenty years ago) link