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Originally Posted by rjl518
Is Bumgarner a hall of famer now just because of his world series stats?
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No. That would be foolish.
I've loved this guy since his rookie year (when I actually rooted for the Giants in the post season.) But unless he pitches five more high quality regular seasons minimum i'd have a hard time seeing him getting in through the regular ballot.
One of my favorite things about the HoF vote is the 5 year wait even after retirement. And it is to avoid stuff like this where we tend to get too high on what just happened. Schilling isn't in yet and just lost 9% of his vote last year, he had 10 seasons with a higher WAR than Bumgarner's career high and tossed 45 more post season innings with similar results.