[BirdWatcher]

Okay, I should probably wrap up this post which I started a few days ago.

So picking up where I left off, with the remainder of the players on the Possible Hall-of-Famer list:

Two veteran third basemen- Jamison Bash and Trevor Leach- also might have a case for inclusion. Bash has been the most prolific slugger in the WPK this side of Nate Bennett. His JAWS of 59.6 ranks 9th. His Hall of Fame Monitor score is a bit of an underwhelming 80 (18th best.) He is 26th in HOF Standards at 33. His Black Ink is 15 (21st) and Gray Ink 102 (22). He has a reputation for laziness and while he is a pretty strong candidate for the Hall, at age 39 he won't be adding much to his credentials. My instinct is he has about a 60% chance of enshrinement at best.
Trevor Leach is only 31 years old and still playing at a pretty high level. He is 29th in JAWS at 42.8 but doesn't show up in the top 30 of any other metric we are looking at right now. He has time to build his case and he should at least get some support as a steady performer and likable character. But he's still a long shot for now.

Finally, a pair of outfielders- 29 year old Cody Kane and 28 year old Lazarro Lowndes.
Kane is a great leader and a fine, if unspectacular, player. He is not in the top 30 in JAWS, has a 60 HOF Monitor score (26th), does not rank in the top 30 in either HOF Standards or Black Ink, but has a solid 153 Gray Ink points to put him 6th overall. If he continues at his current pace for much of his 30's he could get elected. He likely won't be a first ballot guy and might just end of being one of those guys who falls short and is more a Hall of the Very Good type. But he has a chance and his reputation helps.
Lowndes is still very young and has been one of the better contact hitters in the game for years now. He has a JAWS of 49.8 (18th), a HOF Monitor score of 102 (16), HOF Standards of 38 (14th), is 13th in Black Ink (21) and 23rd in Gray Ink (102.) If he retired today he'd be a borderline HOF'er. But he's not retiring today and he should be good for years to come so I would gauge his eventual enshrinement at about 80% chance of success.

The last list I made was of Dark Horse Candidates for the Hall.

They are: starting pitchers Jesse Hartong, Jason Wilson, and Mike Hiatt, first baseman Bobby Erbakan, second baseman Mike Robinette, third baseman Jesse Cibula, and outfielders Curtis Horah and Danny Sanchez. And now I realize in looking through the metrics that I now realize that outfielder Antonio Sosa should be added to this list.

Hartong is the highest paid player in the WPK right now. And at age 32 he is still going strong. He is 23rd in JAWS at 46.4, 19th in HOF Monitor at 75, HOF Standards of 37 (16th), Black Ink of 20 (16th), Gray Ink of 129 (15th.) Depending upon how he ages he has a real shot.
36-year old Jason Wilson has quietly been one of the more reliable starters in baseball for many years. He does not rank in the top 30 in JAWS but is 21st in HOF Monitor at 67, and is 6th in Black Ink at 39 and 14th in Gray Ink at 130. If he has several more strong years and pitches into his early 40's he has a real shot. But at this point I'd only give him about a 20% chance.
Mike Hiatt is the only WPK hurler to throw 2 no-hitters in his career- and one was a Perfect Game. But the reality is that he doesn't make the top 30 in any of these metrics so unless he does a lot more before retirement there is no reason to assume he will make the Hall.

And shoot- I've run out of time now and will have to conclude this in a third installment.
Sorry.