Posted on 01/19/2017 10:57:02 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
If he turns into a phenomenal offensive player, the Yankees will be under a lot of pressure to reduce his workload behind the plate and put him somewhere else in the lineup. I know he put up some ridiculous offensive numbers down the stretch last year, but I don't know if he's such a superb defensive catcher that they'd leave him behind the plate for a decade or more.
Matt Stairs also didn’t get in and he was, although for only a short time a Tiger.
If Schilling had pitched for the Twins or the Angels or any other team other than the Red Sox when he went against the Yankees, he would be mostly forgotten by now.
That statement is about as believable as a CNN poll.
Well, he was co-MVP of the 2001 World Series when the Diamondbacks beat the Yankees.
Of course he is. Sports writers write for the major newspapers and major sports online pages. The grand majority of them went to Northwestern Journalism School and it is liberal to your high top sneakers. Thus, they are all liberals.
And one of the sport’s largest steroid users. He like Sammy Sosa gained huge pounds of muscles on steroids. When they both had to stop, both got immediately skinny again.
But that’s not what he’s remembered by. I don’t think Bill Mazeroski goes into the Hall if his Game 7 winning homer is against the Detroit Tigers or the Cleveland Indians. The 50’s were only the “Golden Age of Baseball” if you lived in New York. Between 1947-1957 17 of the 22 teams in the World Series were from New York.
Exactly...that game 7 kept you on your feet and it gave me a big headache!! It was great.
I think there will eventually be several players from that Red Sox team whose Hall of Fame credentials might end up a bit inflated because of their role in ending "the Curse of Babe Ruth."
Yes. The era of the 300-Win pitcher is over yet the benchmark persists. A bunch of pitchers who just missed that mark will have to be reconsidered before the get back to Schilling. By then he’ll be a veterans committee selection.
Mazeroski should not be in the HOF. He is proof that HOF isn’t necessarily truly the best. Although, compared to other HOFs, I like their more stringent standards in baseball.
Curt was a very tough and competitive baseball pitcher just as he is tough and competitive in life. He was and is a winner. Can’t say the same about those wack job, liberal, loser sports writers who couldn’t hold a candle to Curt in any way.
“If Curt had been a sniveling, snowflake Democrat, he would have been in the HOF already.”
In the HoF for what?
No Cy Young Awards.
Just over 200 Wins.
He is not HoF material.
I'm not sure if the pitching role will even have a major threshold anymore that almost guarantees induction into the Hall of Fame (300 wins, 3000 strikeouts, etc.). Pitching has changed so much in recent years that relief pitchers are becoming more important to a team's success, and the nature of starting pitching is such that there are a number of good-but-not-great pitchers in the 250+ win category ... Andy Pettitte, Mike Mussina and Jamie Moyer come to mind.
The NFL has the least stringent standards because they have a minimum number of inductees every year regardless of how strong the contenders are. But the NFL also has the most difficult types of players to measure for Hall of Fame consideration, with specialists at every position and a lot of great careers curtailed by injury or mediocre teams.
If Tim Raines can get into the Hall of Fame with his numbers, then I wouldn't dismiss anyone on the basis of career statistics alone.
And yet a dominant closer in relief will often be well-traveled as he becomes an expensive luxury to a team that is rebuilding and a good trade commodity.
I know! They have been very focused on Curt getting a raw deal. I am shocked. Usually, they’d be at the center of the attack.
The two best closers of the last 25 years were Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman. Rivera spent his entire career with the Yankees, and Hoffman spent most of his career with the Padres.
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