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Bench Carter I Rodriguez Fisk Piazza Berra Dickey Cochrane Hartnett Campanella Those guys are all better than Simmons. Josh Gibson is high on that list, but how do you compare him? From not in the HOF, I have Munson, Freehan, probably Posey, maybe Mauer. So, that puts him 16th and as I said, if the Veterans Committee is liberal with their selections, after Garvey, Munson and Freehan are in, I have no problem with Simmons. I just wouldn't put him in ahead of Trammell, Garvey, Murphy, Mattingly or Parker. |
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Simmons Munson Freehan and Hartnett are all in one big bunch to me. I agree with you that Campy, when you take his work in the Negro Leagues and extrapolate that to major league equivalency, was ahead of Simmons. Not if you look just at his major league numbers, but you just can't do that. So Campy is ahead of Simmons.
But I have Simmons slightly ahead of Hartnett who is slightly ahead of Munson who is slightly ahead of Freehan. Posey is not there yet. Mauer may be ahead of Simmons by this point. If you're still convinced that Garvey is a HOFer there's not much else I can say. He is borderline way bottom top 50 1B of all time. That's just not HOF material. Parker isn't there either but I don't feel like getting into that discussion. Below average fielder. Had he not taken 5+ years off in the middle of his career....that would be another matter. But he did. Dale Murphy and Donnie Baseball are legitimate discussions for sure. But Simmons is an all time leader at his position unlike these other players. Tom C Last edited by btcarfagno; 11-12-2017 at 09:08 AM. |
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Ya'll need to make up your mind, one side says WAR overrates defense and says Andruw Jones isn't a HOF'er then the other says it underrates defense and claims Simmons isn't. According to the number, without you assigning arbitrary, biased values to it, both are HOF'ers.
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Of the all-time top 80 players ranked by WAR, who is not a member of the Hall of Fame?
Answer: Barry Bonds Roger Clemens Albert Pujols Adrian Beltre Chipper Jones Mike Mussina Curt Schillling Pete Rose and... Lou Whitaker. Of the top 16 second basemen ranked by WAR, there are 3 players NOT in the Hall. They are Bobby Grich, Robinson Cano, and...Lou Whitaker Among 2nd basemen, he's ranked 7th in games played, 14th in JAWS (ahead of Alomar, Biggio, Doerr, Fox), 10th in home runs, 5th in walks, 4th in double plays turned, 11th in putouts, 18th in range factor (ahead of Morgan and Sandberg, Kent, and Cano), and 6th in assists. 1978 Rookie of the year, 3 gold gloves, 4 time silver slugger, 5 time all-star And he's not even on the damn ballot! |
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Whitaker should be in, I wonder if the committee is still too beholden to offensive numbers to notice his stellar defense at 2b.
9th in fWAR all time for 2b. If you are top 10 at your position WAR you should be in the HOF.
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These are the players that I feel are no brainer Hall Of Famers Ted Simmons Bobby Grich Dick Allen Ken Boyer Dwight Evans These are the others from the list that I would vote for Dave Stieb Keith Hernandez Lou Whitaker Graig Nettles Alan Trammell Reggie Smith Tom C |
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Same for Munson and Freehan. As elite defensive catchers, I have them above a below average catcher who brought slightly better offense but only 18% above average and 2-6% better than those great defensive catchers. |
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That said, I do believe Freehan is a HOFer and am willing to listen on Munson. Tom C |
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Simmons had a peak on par with other second-tier Hall of Fame catchers, and had some of the best career stats of any of them. I'm not saying the guy is a slam dunk inductee, but I think he definitely deserved better than the 3.7% of the vote he received in 1994.
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