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Originally Posted by rats60
Larry Walker had an OPS of .872 away from Coors Field. If you put him in another stadium for his career and he hit the same, he would have a higher OPS than many Hofers including Boggs, Gwynn, Carew, Kaline, Yaz, Billy Williams, Reggie Jackson, Jim Rice, Banks, Winfield, etc. Coors gave him the advantage of jumping to 15th all time from around 100, so he wasn't some terrible hitter away from Coors with a career OPS+ of 141. He also created value in the field and on the base paths to accumulate 72.7 WAR. Compare that to Klein's career OPS+ of 137 and WAR of 43.6 and Walker is a much more deserving Hofer than Klein or recent inductees like Gwynn, Winfield, Vlad Guererro, Raines and Rice.
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Seriously? Sounds like you're making the wrong comparisons here. Gwynn?
Based on other players that have been enshrined, I think Walker should be in the HOF, even after looking at the amount of fairly bland plate appearances he had for Montreal and St. Louis.