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Originally Posted by z28jd
Bobby Grich has 71.1 WAR and 2.6% of the votes in his only time on the ballot. Look at Derek Jeter with 71.3 WAR in 4,400 more PAs and people were upset he didn't get 100% of the votes. Larkin and Trammell are in with lower WAR. Trammell in particular had a lot of career overlap with Grich. You also have to bring up Lou Whitaker when you mention Trammell.
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Yeah, just a couple of weeks ago we had a long discussion of Grich. He seems to be a lightning rod for people who don't like WAR. Lots of divergent viewpoints, but I think most agreed he was not likely to make the Hall despite his WAR which obviously would qualify him if you valued the metric.