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Originally Posted by oldjudge
Personally, I think it is wrong to let Kent in and leave Mattingly out. Mattingly played three less years than Kent but he was on one more all star team.He was not only an MVP but in the top 5 in MVP voting two other times.He was a lifetime .307 hitter and also an eight time gold glove winner. He still holds the record for consecutive games with a HR and grand slam HRs in a season. If his back had not started hindering him halfway through his career he would have been an easy first ballot enshrinee.
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Or Dale Murphy, with back to back MVPs in the early 1980s. Trying to figure out how that's not worth more than the guy who benefitted greatly from hitting behind a roided up Bonds.