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john/z28jdFrank,no one said Wetteland should be a hall of famer,he was just a random guy picked who compares well to Sutter,to prove Sutter is a bad choice in my opinion.Dominate or not,they basically had the same career value and id give the edge to Wetteland.In fact the only reason Wetteland even entered to conversation is because Jay said Sutter deserved election and Wetteland didnt deserve 1 vote.
In his prime Sutter mightve been more dominate(tho youre talking about a short prime) id take Wetteland's career anyday because he was a closer on 5 first place teams.
I couldve picked Tom Henke and compared them just the same,except Henke had a much better WHIP rating,a lower ERA(a much bigger difference between league average) closed for 4 playoff teams and a World Series champ,had a higher K/IP rate than both of them and had 311 saves in 642 games,yet he got 6 hall of fame votes in his only year eligible.Where Wetteland and Sutter's careers(if i had a choice to live it out sans injuries) is a close call for Wetteland,I'd choose Henke over either any day.
Basically no one voting this year looked at career stats,length of career or length of dominance,or compared him to others in his era and how they fared.The voters got led like lambs into voting for Bruce Sutter because it was a fashionable thing to do and as everyones been saying since last year,this is "the year of the closer!"
I have nothing against Bruce Sutter the pitcher,i liked him growing up,but theres minimum 50 guys id put in ahead of him,and some of those guys i wouldnt put in to begin with.
Just so theres no more confusion after i cleared up the Wetteland/HOF thing again(hopefully) this isnt a vote for Tom Henke, just because i said hes better career-wise, because i wouldnt put him in either