Ted Simmons: HOF?

Now that guy definitely fails the eye test.

 

That was not the consensus opinion on the Jimmy Rollins thread.

 

#LongGame

You set the whole thread up to get to that, didn't you?

 

Rollins has an MVP award, several Gold Gloves, and more than 460 stolen bases, all while playing another position that is not traditionally an offensive position.

 

The standards for catchers are different. They get the shit beat out of them and generally play fewer games.

 

FWIW, I used to think these threads were ridiculous but I'm really starting to enjoy them.

 

Dick says HOF, we say "how high?"

 

So, in other words. YES. Long game to get back to Rollins. I'll give it to ya, Dick, you're one conniving little fucker. Kudos to LTL for seeing the play first.

 

Yeah, I understand. And Rollins almost certainly doesn't deserve enshrinement. It's just interesting how quickly he was dismissed, considering the hit total. I had theorized that a generation ago, he would get more consideration because of those 2,500 hits, when counting stats were elevated in importance. But Simmons's quick plummet off the ballot shows that that's not necessarily the case. Unlike others, I think the BBWAA usually gets it right. But they've given us at least a few head-scratchers.

 

Can we have a name for this occurrence? Like "dick-rolled" or "falling into the dick trap."

 

The lackluster end to Simmons' career sure as hell didn't help him. He was an AS in 1983 with a .308 avg and 108 ribbies (when he still caught 86 games) but then went off a cliff in his last five years, playing his last three years for a terrible Braves team that finished 6th, 5th and 6th in the NL West:

1984 34 MIL AL .221/.269/.300
1985 35 MIL AL .273/.342/.402
1986 36 ATL NL .252/.313/.386
1987 37 ATL NL .277 .350/.390
1988 38 ATL NL.196 .293/.308

 

I'd like my team's catcher to go off whatever cliff he went off from 1985-87.