Slightly OT - 2020 Modern Baseball Era HOF Ballot

[mr2686]

Originally Posted by ejharrington

Keith Hernandez snubbed again. He is the most underrated player in MLB history.

Possibly one of the reasons for the snub, along with Dave Parker, was their part in the 1985 Pittsburgh drug trials. I guess you had to have stats like Tim Raines to get around that.

OT - I was looking at Hernandez's fielding record and saw he won 11 straight Gold Gloves (very impressive...hadn't remembered he won that many), and then looked at more recent 1b gg winners. Can someone explain to me how Eric Hosmer can win GG's in the American league, and one in 2017, then come to the Padres in 2018 and have almost identical fielding stats as 2017 (and slightly better than the Rizzo and Freeman (they tied for the 2018 GG) and not win in 2018? What?...do they just put names in a hat? LOL

[parker1b2]

Originally Posted by mr2686

Possibly one of the reasons for the snub, along with Dave Parker, was their part in the 1985 Pittsburgh drug trials. I guess you had to have stats like Tim Raines to get around that.

OT - I was looking at Hernandez's fielding record and saw he won 11 straight Gold Gloves (very impressive...hadn't remembered he won that many), and then looked at more recent 1b gg winners. Can someone explain to me how Eric Hosmer can win GG's in the American league, and one in 2017, then come to the Padres in 2018 and have almost identical fielding stats as 2017 (and slightly better than the Rizzo and Freeman (they tied for the 2018 GG) and not win in 2018? What?...do they just put names in a hat? LOL

Rafael Palmeiro won the AL 1st Baseman Gold Glove Award in 1999 playing 28 games at 1B and 128 as a DH.