First under appreciated player that pops into your head

[GeoPoto]

OBP? Who knew?

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1671318477

[Jstottlemire1]

Lou Gehrig

[Yoda]

George Sisler.

[Johnny630]

Eddie Murray

[Robbie]

The "Mechanical Man"

[D. Bergin]

Frank Robinson was the 1st one to pop into my head, as the question suggested. Don’t know if it’s the right answer, but it’s the honest one.

[JollyElm]

Jeff frickin' Kent. Come on now!!

[Bigdaddy]

Al Oliver. Man could rake.

[Fred]

I'll keep this in the 20th century. Bob Johnson is the first player when I think of as under appreciated, well, at least from a hobby stand point. Four points higher on his lifetime BA (.296) and he might be in the HOF with his 8 x 100 RBI seasons with 7 of those consecutive and 2 other 90+ RBI seasons and a greater than .500 slugging percentage (.506). He had over 1200 RBIs and runs lifetime.


I can't help myself, for the 19th century, Bobby Mathews with 297 wins. Just 3 more W's and he'd most likely be in. There were probably other pitchers more deserving in the 19th century that were overall statistically better, but 3 wins shy of that magic number.

[chjh]

Stan Musial

[Writehooks]

AL: Roger Maris.
NL: Dale Murphy

[VintageVinnie]

+1 on Al Oliver. Career .303 hitter over 17 seasons and just a few hundred hits shy of 3,000.

[Rad_Hazard]

Kenny Lofton - A sure-fire HOFer by every metric and only gets 3.2% on the first ballot then never sees the vote again.

[abothebear]

I like the Mel Ott suggestions because when I saw them I thought, “oh yeah, I forget about Mel Ott.”

But to answer the question of the OP, oddly, Troy Glaus was the first name to come to mind. But after a minute of thinking, Lance Parrish. So many guys are great for not quite long enough, and then they get sort of erased from memory.

[mrreality68]

Hornsby
Collins
Murray

[esd10]

I'll go with a under appreciated owner August herrmann father of the world series and brought peace between the nl and al. For a player jake daubert the best first basemen of his era in my opinion.

[tombocombo]

Dwight Evans

[kkkkandp]

Local hero at the New Jersey shore...

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...ramedo01.shtml

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Will White.

[pclpads]

Max Patkin

[5-Tool Player]

Vada Pinson

[leaflover]

Dick groat

[JCM2009]

Dominic Dimaggio.

[823dek]

I know Dave Concepcion but who did Trent King play for ?