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Originally Posted by dodger300
The reason he is not in HOF is he didn't play 10yrs in majors. You can change that 5yrs in options.
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Nah, there's been a debate since then; it's not at all clear that this guy is actually HOF worthy. The edge cases who barely played 10 years (particularly Addie Joss, who would not meet the 10 year requirement in OOTP terms) were clearly top-of-the-league talents when they did play. Joss was one of the 3 or 4 best pitchers in baseball over a 9 year period. Koufax, who did play enough seasons to qualify, was far and away the best pitcher for 6 years running. Parisian Bob Caruthers, who is not in the Hall but keeps having a case made, was 209-87 over 7 seasons (he was also 7-2 as a 20 year old and, like a lot of 19th century pitchers, was 2-10 and terrible for one season at the end of his career (most likely he suffered something like a torn rotator cuff or elbow ligament and, well, it was nearly 100 years before TJ surgery).
I think this is a question OP needs to answer for himself; I don't think that changing the HOF entry rules is necessarily the way to get around it here.