This is a good list. I have no idea what statistical general standards will be used for the pitchers after ~Verlander/Scherzer/Kershaw. They play so little that a new bar will have to be enacted to allow them in, but where those lines will emerge and be drawn is a mystery.
I'd call Beltran and Altuve maybe's for moral posturing and not performance. HOF Voting has grown increasingly political over time.
Then there's guys like Tulowitzki, Hanley, etc. that might sneak in via a vets committee some day, that don't beat the HOF average but the almost random dice rolls of the VC's might reasonably encompass.
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