Paul Konerko: Hall of Famer?

Then it's on the players. The guy has been horrible offensively since the beginning of May. The point still stands. It wasn't having to put guys from every AL team on the roster that kept Konerko from making it. There was room. There were also bad choices.

 

I think the better current Chisox to the HOF Fodder for Discussion would be Mark Buehrle. He averages 14 wins a year and is only 32, so he could have 250+ W's in the 5-man rotation era.

I also say that if Rusty Staub had stayed in the AL, he would have gotten 3000 hits and been in the Hall, too.

 

MB has his adherents/fans . . . but the main threat to his ascension is himself . . . you keep hearing the retirement rumors.

 

Eh, I don't know about that. As Crash Davis astutely noted, In the show, EVERYBODY can hit a fastball.

 

The man has a 3.84 career ERA. He's an above-average innings eater who has no business whatsoever in a Hall of Fame discussion.

 

Yeah. Poor man's Tom Glavine.

 

"above-average" innings eater

may be faint praise. It can be argued he's easily the sui generis AL innings eater of the last decade, plus.

 

He oughtta be in the HOF for the speed he works, if nothing else.

 

Concepcion got a lot of exposure for being on the Big Red Machine (Game of the Week, WS, etc.) but he was also helped by being able to play half his games on the turf (although he gets credit for perfecting the mid-hop throw on turf.) I can still see him lunging and slapping the ball down the right field line. He was one smooooooth SS.

 

Ozzie Guillen was a better shortstop than most people are currently willing to give him credit for.

 

I don't think Konerko belongs in the HOF. Not yet, anyway. But he does deserve to become approximately the 57th White Sox player with his number retired on the outfield wall. Do they even have numbers left to give out anymore? Jerry loves retiring those things.

 

Is Chipper Jones a lock HOFer or does he deserve his own thread. Career .304 .403 .532
1 batting title, 1 MVP. Never led the league in anything besides his batting crown.

Post-season(92 games, 400+ plate appearance):.288 .411 .459

no gold gloves, 1 silver slugger.

2500+ hits 1500+ RBI 440+ HRs

Defensively? Better than good, not great?