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Posted By: T206Collector

Jay,

Now you're just making stuff up:

Mattingly was "done" 6 years into his career. 12 years into his career his numbers looked like, well, Kirby Puckett's. Puckett is the closest thing the Twins have had to Jeter. Puckett is a HOFer, but Mattingly is not -- check their numbers and then answer the question, why? Something to do with Puckett's two World Series championships perhaps? Well, Jeter has 4. That's why Jeter is a lock if he died tomorrow.

In order to be in the HOF you need 10 great seasons. Mattingly had 6, tops. The last time Mattingly hit over .300 in a full season, with > 20 HR and > 100 RBI was 1989.

To compare Mattingly with Jeter and say Jeter's HOF status may be as tenuous as Mattingly's has become is just an effort to annoy Yankee fans by reminding them that their beloved Mattingly -- who Puckett named "Donnie Baseball" -- is not a surefire HOFer (even though Puckett, with the same numbers, is).