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Originally Posted by Kutcher55
He falls short on numbers and WAR but he was a clutch player who rose to the occasion made the all star team 8 years in a row when it meant something to be an all-star. He might be the ultimate case for WAR being a flawed metric since his 38.0 seems to exclude him but hell the guy smells like a HOFer for anyone who followed the game back then.
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IMO, Garvey is not in the HOF because he's a first baseman with less than 300 career home runs. The writers want all first basemen in the Hall to have numbers looking like Lou Gehrig or Willie McCovey. Then Garvey had some personal scandal in the mid-80's, which tarnished his golden boy image. I think the combination of those things killed it for the writers, and now he's not in simply because the various iterations of the VC are always so hit or miss. I think he belongs in because he was arguably the best at his position in his league for the better part of a decade. But yes, low WAR, and not a great OBP either.