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02-23-2016 03:09 PM |
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Originally Posted by David Watts
(Post 3985743)
Strange Hall induction following season 40. Jack Clark gets voted in and to say it has me scratching my head is an understatement. Clark hit only .248 over his career with 397 home runs. His WAR was under 50, I think 48. He walked 1500+ times which ranks him in at least the top 5(at work, so can't say for sure, but I think he second all time behind Eddie Collins). He won 5+ Silver Slugger awards and I think 1 MVP. I just didn't expect him to even come close.
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I'm having the same issue with two of my favourite players IRL. Jose Bautista and Duane Ward are creeping closer and closer to induction with each passing year (and I have my years on the ballot set to 15 instead of 10). Bautista has 42.4 WAR and 36.1 JAWS, which...I'm sorry...Just doesn't cut it. His offensive numbers are tremendous, but he had a -254.9 career ZR at five different positions, which is positively puke-inspiring. That's 25 wins or so down the drain on defense. If he could've carved that down to a -100 ZR or so, maybe I can see it because he would've been in a much better WAR/JAWS position, but as it stands no.
As for Ward, so far he's the best closer/reliever I've ever seen in my league. It's sooo hard to measure relievers though because their impact innings-wise is so small, and yet importance-wise it's huge. Just ask the RL 1983 and 1984 Toronto Blue Jays (although the 1984 guys didn't stand much of a chance against the steamroller that was that year's Tigers) about how nice it would've been to have a real bullpen instead of a damn hand grenade brigade.
It breaks my heart to say this, but if either of them get in, I'm gonna have to go full on commissioner mode and rip them out.
My HoF now has 22 members after the 1932 election, which had no inductees (Bautista finished highest with 67.1% of the vote, while Ward was next with 56.7%), including RL Tigers Norm "Stormin' Norman" Cash and Victor Martinez, who actually was a starting catcher 1,822 times in my game. Cash went in as a Pirate, and Martinez went in as a Yankee, but Roberto Alomar went in as a Tiger. So...There's that.
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