[Trinity5]

So more than half of all the players out there have more than 384 homers, 1600 RBIs, 1300 runs, 2800 hits, a 22 year career batting avg of .289 and were the 1st pick in the draft? Hmmm I guess baseball is more watered down then I thought...

[Alberta's Child]

22 seasons, and he only played in 130 or more games in 11 of them. Like Tim Raines (who was a more qualified candidate but still not a legitimate Hall of Famer), he spent much of his career as a part-time player and was rarely ever even considered a great player even in any given season.

The guy barely broke the 6% mark (once) in his regular Hall of Fame voting for the five years he was eligible, and then the Veteran's Committee decided eight years later that he was a Hall of Famer?

The Veteran's Committee was originally established to vet Hall of Fame candidates who played in an era long ago when statistical comparisons weren't necessarily a good measure of a player from a historical perspective.

The idea that some guy who was a 6% HOF candidate (at best) from 2007 to 2011 suddenly becomes a Hall of Famer in 2019 is ludicrous.