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Originally Posted by sports-cards-forever
It is surprising that the most popular WAR names like Grich and Whitaker never make it onto these ballots
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The current eras committee that is voting later this year is for pre-1980s players. Whitaker's production mainly came after 1980.
The bulk of Grich's production was pre-1980, but I think he gets hurt by the fact that his career straddles 1980, with significant production after 1980.
1980 is an arbitrary year, and I think it hurts players like Grich, Dwight Evans, and Keith Hernandez whose careers straddle 1980.