Baseball Hall of Good

by EbeSPN - 159 cards (Last updated on Dec 6, 2021)


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Feb 27, 2017 - 10:38PM
Vvvergeer

Hall of VERY good. Nice list. Fun to look through. A few of these guys will get in over the years. I feel sure. 

Feb 28, 2017 - 8:53AM
Joeyd011

Joe Torre was selected to the hall of fame in 2014 by the Veteran's Committee.  Perhaps some of these other former players will receive the same consideration in the future.  I think Pete Rose will eventually be inducted, but probably not in his lifetime.

Feb 28, 2017 - 9:26AM
EbeSPN

Torre went in as a manager:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/hof.shtml

 

 

Feb 28, 2017 - 10:25AM
rmpaq5

Yes the Tiger's connection definitely plays into my sentiments....but how Alan Trammell never even got a sniff still astounds me to this day. Also I always have to remind myself that Roger Maris is NOT in the hall.

Feb 28, 2017 - 2:43PM
Vvvergeer

On the Torre thing: I always wondered if there should be different categories of being in the hall of fame. Torre could have made it as a player. Because he's been inducted as a manager, he'll never be considered again for his accomplishments as a player. Seems wrong, somehow.

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Dec 15, 2017 - 8:04AM
hyperdex

You're missing a personal favorite of mine...  Bucky Walters, MVP and pitching triple crown winner in 1939, had a high watr mark of 23.7% in 1968.

Jan 11, 2019 - 1:45PM
deegsteach

Super cool list. I have binders with cards organized by milestones and SO MANY of these players are in those binders. And of course, as a Boston fan, I have a soft spot for Dewey. Bill James wrote an impassioned article bringing out all of his best geeky stats to show why he belongs in the Hall. His primary thesis was that Dewey's career followed a different arc than most - his production was much higher in the second half of his career than the first. He kind of took off in his late twenties, unlike most pro athletes. Anyway, great fun!

Jan 8, 2020 - 8:59PM
Vvvergeer

Looking through it again, I'm not offended by any of these guys not being in the Hall, with the possible exception of Hodges and maybe Rose (but that's controversial.) Everyone else, yeah, Hall of Very Good. I'm almost sad that you updated, because now the list doesn't include the history of those you had here, but are now in, like, I presume Simmons, Baines, Trammell, Lee Smith. 

Still a nice list. 

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Jan 8, 2020 - 9:32PM
EbeSPN

Larry Walker maybe joining this list shortly, and possibly Bonds, Clemens, Schilling, Vizquel, Manny, Rolen, Sheffield, Wagner, and Kent. That would reshape the top 10 vote gettiers not in. 

May 8, 2020 - 12:41AM
theFalcon

Talk about an increasingly bizarre institution.  I'm looking at the yearly inductees for the Baseball HOF during the last five years on Wikipedia ... wow, some of those guys should be swapped out for players in your Hall of Good!

Ted Simmons was voted in by the Veterans Committee ... are you kidding?  Okay, he was a really good hitter for a catcher, but he was nothing special behind the plate.  He lead the major leagues in passed balls in '73 and '75 and there were no knuckleballers on those teams.  Whitey Herzog watched this guy for half a season in1980, dumped him during the off-season, signed lighter-hitting Darrell Porter and the Cards got a lot better.

I gotta throw in with Goose Gossage ... except for Mariano Rivera, relief pitching during the past 30 years has been a total joke.  Lee Smith, HOF... 478 saves and none of them meant anything ... but, pitched four games in the post-season with an ERA of 8.44.  The biggest clown of all is Trevor Hoffman.  We're suppsed to be impressed by 601 saves, but does his HOF plaque mention the two times his team REALLY needed him?  Not likely:  1.)  Gave up 3-run HR to Scott Brosius to blow Game 3 of '98 WS;  2.)  Came in to protect a two-run lead during 2007 playoff game at Colorado and got murdered.  The Rockies end up in the WS, while the Padres end up at the golf course.

Tim Raines, HOF ... really?  He leveled off quite a bit during the last two-thirds of his career. 

Harold Baines, HOF ... well, he produced a lot, but he lead the AL in only one stat in 22 years (slugging pct. in 1984).  Kudos for hitting .324 during the post-season, but how do you take him seriously when he left the outfield to became a full-time DH at age 28?!

Meanwhile, "good" Steve Garvey is still on the outside looking in.  He dominated his position, was a top fielder, hit .294 during regular season and hit .338 during the post-season.

Oh, and what about "good" Bill Madlock?  Only four right-handed hitters since 1900 have won four NL batting championships and the other three are named Clemente, Hornsby and Wagner.  He joined Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and Detroit via mid-season trades and all three teams made the playoffs in the fall.



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