Carlos Delgado officially retires, does he get into the Hall?

He was a very good hitter, but he is not a Hall of Famer.

 

I apologize for starting this thread. It's no fun when there's no debate.

 

Hall of Very Good

He and Fred McGriff can look at each other in the mirror because they have very similar careers.

 

Meaning the top eight were AL Easters (Rodriguez and Posada).

 

To answer the question posed in the thread title, Carlos can get into the Hall of Fame the same way I could. Go to Cooperstown, stand in line, buy a ticket.

 

While this discussion has been summarily dismissed, I feel it important to note what a quitting dog Delgado was with the Mets in 2008, when he suddenly regained his past form once he got Willie Randolph fired. Dog dog dog. Good riddance.

 

Yeah he quit while he was fighting for his career and shot at getting 500 HR's.

 

Carlos Delgado=Fred McGriff.

Two very good players who fall short of the hall of fame.

 

Delgado w/Randolph as manager (69 games): .242-9-32-.321 OBP-.407 SLG
Delgado w/Manuel as manager (93 games): .291-29-83-.374 OBP-.597 SLG

Qutting dog.

 

Would that mean that BYH is beating a dead Crime Dog on this thread?

Sorry, BYH, but there are so many other factors that could have been at play there. You're entitled to your opinion, but the evidence is not nearly as clear as you make it out to be.

 

He had an early season slump and a late season surge, but splitting it around the firing doesn't make much sense.

In the nine games immediately before the firing, he was 12-for-37 with 4 BB.

In the 13 games immediately after the firing, he was 9-for-50, albeit with a lot of power in those nine.

It's pretty normal for a player's season to have two wildly different halves if you split it down the middle. It'd be weird not to see a split like that.

Now, I didn't follow those Mets so there may have been other reasons to believe he was dogging it. I just don't see the statistical split as all that compelling.

 

Delgado was a notorious 2nd half player for most of his career.

Career before the ASB: .270/.373/.526
Career after the ASB: .292/.397/.573

Were his 08 splits more extreme than normal? Yeah, but this is a guy who clearly hit better in the later months of the year.