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Originally Posted by TheDarkKnight
I was a baseball fan for most of Baines’ career and he never struck me as particularly great.
Three seasons with 100+ RBI and 0 with 30+ homers. For someone that spent a good chunk of his career as a DH, that’s not good. I will say I’m impressed with a 121 OPS+ over a 22 season career though.
Someone mentioned to me that if he played another year and managed to get to 400 homers and 3000 hits he would have been a shoo-in. That’s comical. I mean, he’s probably right, but it’s still comical.
Nick Markakis has no chance at the Hall, right?
The 3,000 hit thing is weird. He probably would have been in almost a decade ago, despite objectively not really doing much more. Im curious how many guys are in now that wouldn't be if they finished with 2950 hits instead, even padding random other stats in exchange.
Baines topped out at 6.1% of the vote!
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Originally Posted by borg23
What a complete joke and a disgrace that 16 drunken idiots can put anyone they want in the HOF
Might as well put in my everyone halfway decent who has played for 10+ years at this point
I think a few years ago they put in some umpire from the 30s
Because they clearly know how good of an umpire that guy was
Lou Piniella missed by one vote! If there was a metric to combine playing career with managerial career, I've long thought he was worthy. He had quite the playing career to go along with 16th all time in wins.