First under appreciated player that pops into your head
 

Name first one you think of. Just one.....

Not his collectibles, but as a player. . .



Jimmie Foxx

Rogers Hornsby

Underappreciated
 

Jim Maloney- Trent King

Absolutely Jimmie Foxx.

Better than you think
 

Paul Blair

Pitcher: Spahn
Hitter: Carew

Hornsby

Rogers Hornsby
Hank Greenberg

easy ............... Eddie Collins

Under appreciated
 

Nice call on Paul Blair, Rocky! How about David Concepcion? Trent King

Eddie Mathews, That could easily happen to anyone when Hank Aaron is your teammate.

Lefty Grove

Roger Bresnahan

Mel Ott. Gets very little attention for such a beast in his time. Similar to Foxx.

Vada Pinson


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Frank Robinson

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Warren Spahn

Grover Alexander. Always seems to be relegated to a tier below Young Johnson Mathewson and Grove among prewar pitchers but should not be IMO.

Eddie Murray. Switch-hitting power hitters are very rare.

Johnny kling

Worthy Nats
 

Cecil Travis
Mickey Vernon
Camilo Pascual

Every one in the HOF playing their careers for most other teams

Frank Robinson, Vada Pinson and Curt Flood were HS teammates. Frank Robinson was also a HS classmate of Bill Russell.

Jimmie Foxx for sure.

Feel like Stan Musial doesn't get much love outside of baseball circles, nor does Carl Yastrzemski.

Good call on Ott, super under appreciated for the first National Leaguer to hit 500 home runs. and every thread needs a card.
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Frank Robinson. Always Frank Robinson.

-Al

Firpo Marberry- first great reliever

Frank Robinson for me as well.

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Maybe it is just me, but I struggle with players like Jimmie Foxx and Frank Robinson being underrated. But, I get that there is a difference between an absolute and relative scale. Those two are certainly underrated *relative* to some of their contemporaries, but are widely considered greats of the game (an absolute scale.)

I like the suggestion of Paul Blair, mainly because I have a Blair player collection. But, as someone who grew up rooting for the late '70s Yankees, I'd consider guys like Willie Randolph (65.9 WAR) and Graig Nettles (68.0 WAR) as not getting near enough love.

Good call on the tall Texan. Some serious history-making there but pretty much unknown outside of Nats buffs and even though tied in closely with Walter Johnson, Bucky Harris, and their back-to-back pennants in 1924-25..

Tempting to go for Foxx, Musial or Ott, but i would say Jerry Koosman. Big time lefty. If those Mets teams didn’t generally suck, he wins a lot more games. He still won 222 games, and his stats compare favorably to Jim Kaat for instance. Better ERA, same WHIP, 18 years vs 24 years, but aside from Kaat’s extra longevity stats, you might easily take him over Kaat. Good hitter too, and 4-0 in playoffs and World Series and led the Mets to the 69 title in game 5.

Collectors know, though, just look at the price of his rookie card! ;-)

Player
 

Curt Flood. Without him there would be no free agency.

I may get some flack for this one but much like the great Indian Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, free agency happens regardless of what Flood does. Flood took a brave stance and deserves to be recognized, but he lost his case and it didn’t really move the needle on the issue

To me, "overlooked" indicates a non-HOFer. My under-appreciated player is Dave Concepcion.

Doc Cramer

Vic Power.

Michael's phrasing was perhaps not the best, but still Flood was an important figure and even if he was short term unsuccessful he raised awareness and inspired others along the path. That it may have been inevitable doesn't really diminish him, so too was civil rights and many other historical trends but we still rightly revere certain leaders.

Dave Orr. He is Pete Browning without the bat story and a better fielder. His annual hitting line is almost identical to Dan Brouthers’ except his career was cut short by a stroke. In his one year playing against NL stars (1890 Players League) he was second in batting (.371) and second in RBIs (124).

Chuck Connors - Dodgers & Cubs

Hal Chase - I know, I know about being and ass and gambling along with his colorful personality - but his skill on the diamond was very impressive. If you interested the Black prince of baseball is a good read.

Stan Hack.

Hell of a hitter (.301/.394/.397 over 16 seasons, 8509 PA) and an above average defender at 3rd (great glove, not as great arm).

Even among Cubs fans he's mostly an "oh yeah, that guy was pretty good" afterthought even though he played his entire career with them and coached/managed in the Cubs system for many years following his playing career.

Hack was a huge collector of Cubs memorabilia, too.

This is a really good one.

I think most of the most underrated are 1) players who made the Hall but are almost universally panned for being in the Hall and there historical reputation becomes ‘that guy who is in the Hall but should not be’, and they never get credit for being very very good players in actual merit, or 2) players like Hack who just miss the Hall debates and have faded into complete and total obscurity even though they were very very good players as well.

+1 could not agree more

Eddie Yost
 

OBP? Who knew?

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Lou Gehrig

George Sisler.

Eddie Murray

The "Mechanical Man"

Frank Robinson was the 1st one to pop into my head, as the question suggested. Don’t know if it’s the right answer, but it’s the honest one. ;)

Jeff frickin' Kent. Come on now!!

Al Oliver. Man could rake.