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Three names, Hall of Fame, yay or nay?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Aug 2, 2010.

  1. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    1. Lance Berkman
    2. Todd Helton
    3. Jim Thome

    I'd say: Yes, No, Yes.

    Thoughts?
     
  2. YGBFKM

    YGBFKM Guest

    No, no, yes.
     
  3. Hank_Scorpio

    Hank_Scorpio Active Member

    No, no, yes.

    (And that yes vote was painful to type. :D)
     
  4. spnited

    spnited Active Member

    No. No. probably
     
  5. UPChip

    UPChip Well-Known Member

    No, yes, yes for what he did to the Tigers alone.
     
  6. Piotr Rasputin

    Piotr Rasputin New Member

    Three No votes.

    Not necessarily based on what I think, but rather based on how I think the voters will go.
     
  7. Guy_Incognito

    Guy_Incognito Well-Known Member

    Close if he's done, could make it easier if he has some baseball in him.
    No, though it's not really fair
    Yes
     
  8. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    DH thing for Thome?
     
  9. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Should (off the very top of my head)? Yes, yes, yes.

    Will? No, yes, yes.
     
  10. Piotr Rasputin

    Piotr Rasputin New Member

    http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/berkmla01.shtml

    http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/heltoto01.shtml

    http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/thomeji01.shtml

    Numbers-wise, Thome is the closest to being a "yes/maybe." Has he been a nice guy to the press? Will some of the voters whine about, yes, the DH thing? Will they hold his lack of a championship against him?

    Both Helton and Berkman - again, based on numbers - seem like the really good (at times great) player who had a nice decade in the majors, a couple of all-star appearances, a couple of top-five MVP finishes, but nothing that truly quickens the pulse. It would be very interesting to compare their power numbers to their contemporaries in this particular era.
     
  11. spnited

    spnited Active Member

    The disparity between Helton's Coors Field numbers and his road numbers also will hurt him
     
  12. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    That's what I was thinking.

    .064 higher batting average at Coors.

    More than .200 higher OPS.
     
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