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Alec, take a random distribution of players that played in the playoffs. The resulting performances will be in a bell curve shape, with extremes at both ends. The reason you will end up with such large outliers on both sides of the curve is that the sample sizes are so small that the standard deviation of player performances is quite great.
Also, many great players had no ring. In fact, Ted Williams had no ring. I guess he really sucked, huh? Billy Williams, Ryan Sandberg, Ron Santo, until last year Pedro Martinez, and many great players never won a World Series. In fact, you are a Red Sox fan, no? So does that mean that all the great players over the years, Yaz and Williams and everyone else weren't great players? Was Pete Rose better than Williams because he had a championship ring?
Frankly, your line of thinking is rather suspect. You cannot blame a player for being on bad teams during his career, or teams that didn't win the World Series. There are 24 other people on the team, you know.
Pete Rose = vastly, vastly overrated. Like Nolan Ryan, he was a hardworking white guy who looked good on the playing field but whose contributions were vastly overstated.
Lastly, Barry Bonds came closest to winning the World Series when the Giants almost won in Game 6 of the 2002 Series. But I guess I couldn't expect anyone to remember all the way to 3 years ago, hrm?
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