Chris Carpenter: Hall of Famer?

"It's not ridiculous."

 

So when Punto went 4 for 5 with a homer, I should have started a HOF thread? He had one good start and so you asked if he should be in the HOF? That makes no sense.

 

Met Carpenter at a hockey game when he was pitching for the Jays and he told me how much he loved hockey growing up in New Hampshire and wanting to be Bobby Orr. So maybe he gets into the Hockey Hall of Fame for that.

And despite his many accomplishments on the mound he gets into Cooperstown the same way I do: with a ticket.

 

As someone pointed out, it's not so much the thread as the coming back with "it's not ridiculous" when someone questioned it. Oh and yes he had a great playoff performance but it was in the opening round of the playoffs. Those tend to get forgotten after a few years.

 

Thinking Pedro doesn't get in is a lot worse than thinking Carpenter has a chance.

3 Cy Young's (four more top 5's), career ERA under 3.00, 5th all-time in WHIP, 2nd all time in adjusted ERA+, 3,000 strikeouts, 3rd all-time in strikeouts per 9 ... the only, and I do mean only, thing he is missing is a ton of wins. He has the other counting stat (strikeouts) and is a top 5 pitcher in history in all the non-counting stats.

 

Yes, I think if you take the theoretical worst HOF pitcher, Carpenter is closer to him than Pedro is, on opposite sides.

Pedro is a first ballot, slam dunk, 90-percent of the vote guy IMO.

Oh, and about those 3 CYs he won, he also should have won in 2002, when the idiot voters (looking shamefully at myself) voted for Zito instead.

 

it would be a surprise for Pedro not to be 1st ballot. for anyone to think he doesn't get in is insane. forget the exact stat, but for a stretch his ERA was lower than the league average by a ridiculous amount. the guy dominated in a big offensive era and it was the AL.

 

But it's NOT what you said.

 

So Dick starts an asinine thread and blames the rest of us for calling him out. Funnily enough it still isn't the dumbest post on this thread. That would go to Abbott unless he is being sarcastic.

 

Why isn't Gene Tenace in the Hall?[/blue]

 

His hairpiece is, no?

 

Count me in the Pedro on the first ballot group...