Midday post:
Note to the entire baseball world -- Andre' Dawson was EASILY as good as Jim Rice, and in my opinion, BETTER. Certainly a better all around ballplayer. Better defense. Better arm. Would have played even longer and hit even more homers had he been in Boston all those years instead of Olympic stadium.
Once again the jagoffs who vote on this stuff screwed the pooch.
I'm boycotting the Baseball Hall of Fame.
I do, however, propose the Blogging Hall of Fame. I'm in. Smitty's not.
Sherm
by the way -- what the hell is a snowblower? It's 80 here today and I've got the AC on.
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A snowblower is the reason Frosty the Snowman spends so much time on the sidewalk.
HOF peeves me too. Why should writers be the voters. The only ones really qualified to judge a players relative merits are those who were on the field at the same time, maybe their coaches. Same league voting.
Allowing a writer to determine which of the players he covered, some of which gave good quote, and some who rightfully ignored the gnats at their locker, is like letting the ball players vote on which writer should get into a writers hall. Bet nobody does there.
I have an idea!
This is a game that is ripe for admission to a hall of fame to be numbers driven. Take all past and current members and gather their stats. Take the average of the bottom 5 players at each position and let that be the line of demarcation. Not so much a Mendoza line, but I have a sneaking suspicion it could be called a "Morgan Line".
I'll call it the Morgan Line, because it amuses me.
For offensive players (not John Rocker types) You would have to pick say a formula of perhaps OPS times RBI OR Runs scored times fielding percentage. Bonus points could be added for Certain awards such as Sliver slugger or MVP, but only awards voted on by players.
For Pitchers, Wins(or saves/ holds) times innings pitched divided by ERA. Starters and relievers judged separately.
Applying this formula to relief pitchers is easy as there are only 4 in the HOF right now. Eckersley,Gossage,Sutter,and Fingers. I'm going to leave out Eckersly as he had 171 Wins as a starter to go with his 387 saves and clearly will be above the Morgan Line.
Gossage: 310 saves times 1809 IP divided by an ERA of 3.01 = 186,309.
Fingers 341 x 1701/2.90=200,014
Sutter 300 x 1042 /2.83=110,459.
Kind of what I Might expect, Fingers and gossage clearly superior to Sutter.
You might ask where does Lee Smith fall, I don't know as I type this, but will do the math.
478 savesx 1289 IP / 3.03 ERA =203,347!
Just a little better than Fingers, and Gossage ,clearly better Sutter.
I think I'm on to something.
Feel free to pass this work of genius along, but I know Bud Selig already reads shermrants, so expect the system to be in place in the near future.
Wow. One question. Sliver Slugger? That's a splinter group, I think.
I like the Morgan Line. The "passing grade" for the HOF. Classic, Doc, I think you're on to something here.
Dawson should be in the HOF, Rice is served with beans, no place in the Hall for Rice.
The Morgan line! Question, how many players have stats above the Morgan Line that are not in the HOF? I bet a crap load.
I went to the cages to prepare for the Melee in Mesa, did I mention I can rake?
The Hawk had a Gun.
I was at a game where he threw a guy out at home plate no bounces from the Right Field corner.
Class Act.
Vote the Hawk!
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