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The BBWAA east coast bias thing is a myth. The reason there appears to be one is because the Veterans committee had lobbying for guys like Rizzuto and because in the early days of baseball the east coast had a lot of teams. But in the last 50 years I can't think of any BBWAA inductee that got in because of east coast bias. There's pletny of marginal HOFers that were not east coast based.
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I recall a thread comparing Rice and Baines, and there were a lot of similaries. |
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Jim Rice is probably more like Dale Murphy who I thought was better than Rice. Murphy and Rice really show why nice guys finish last because Murphy had to have been the nicest guy in the world towards the media and Rice one of the biggest jerks yet Murphy gets shunned.
Harold Baines deff played in the wrong time frame, he would have gotten 3000 hits had it not been for 3 years of strikes causing him to miss over 100 games. |
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Gary Carter had to wait for his 6th ballot. Should have gone in on the first. |
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I don't know if anyone is currently watching it but MLB Network is having a fascinating roundtable about the HOF vote and PEDs. Tom Verducci had an interesting point about the difference between greenies and steroids where he said it is a difference between "performance enablers" compared "performance enhancers."
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If he hadn't been traded by the White Sox, Harold Baines likely would have had finished his career with more than 3,000 hits. That's what Jerry Reinsdorf believes anyway, and I agree with him on this point. Harold actually hit lefties pretty well, and lefty starters better than lefty relief specialists, which is true for most lefthanded hitters. But after he left the Sox, he played appreciably fewer games because he was platooned.
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He would have gotten his atbats if he was 20 or 30 hits short at the end of his career. Again the strikes hurt him more than any player besides Tim Raines.
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I also think Fred McGriff was hurt by the strike of 94-95. He would be over 500 homers, which to a lot of voters is a Hall of Fame benchmark. Also, if he played his career clean with almost everyone else around him juicing to get to 500-600-762 homers, then it makes his career look less significant. Personally, I think McGriff was probably every bit as good as Willie McCovey or Eddie Murray. |
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So the Cub fan/resident Sosa apologist in my office said Sosa should get in since nobody has every said they witnessed him taking the stuff, was told by him he has taken the stuff or supplied him with it.
I told him by that reasoning, we should stop saying Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK because he was never convicted of the crime.
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