There will always be different classes of HOFers. Some get in based on hype around them. Drysdale, for example, only got in because of great era for Dodgers and Koufax tandem. There were a bunch of great but maybe not HOFer players who got in a few decades ago mainly because--it's said--Frankie Frisch was on veterans' committee and was getting his old pals in. You look at their stats and they are all strong and you can make a case but--marginal, maybe. And you can't judge it by how quickly they made it. It used to be that even strong candidates had to wait a few years to get in but now fans demands induction at the immediate five-year mark or something's wrong. Now you've got the issue of inflated stats in steroid era.
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