Chuck Finley: HOF?

[Dick Whitman]

• 200 wins
• 3,197 innings
• 2,610 strikeouts (Jack Morris 2,478)
• 58.4 WAR (Jack Morris 44.1)
• 39.8 seven-year peak WAR (Jack Morris 32.8)
• Three seasons of 7.0+ WAR (Jack Morris highest 5.8)
• Five-time All-Star (same as Jack Morris)
• 3.85 ERA, 115 ERA+ (Jack Morris 3.90, 105)
• SO9: 7.3 (Jack Morris 5.8)
• SO/BB: 1.96 (Jack Morris 1.78)
• 15 shutouts

 

[cranberry]

I’m convinced. Put him in.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I’m convinced. Put him in.

Maybe had he rocked a moustache.

 

[User 149557]

Put that high heel from Tawny in a special display case, though.

 

[garrow]

 

[heyabbott]

What sport?

 

[heyabbott]

I will bite

If Tony Perez is in so should Gary Sheffield. Adrian Beltre and Harold Baines too.

 

[JC]

I will bite

If Tony Perez is in so should Gary Sheffield. Adrian Beltre and Harold Baines too.

Beltre is a first ballot HOFer.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Not Harold Baines.

 

[heyabbott]

Beltre is a first ballot HOFer.

He’s a Hall of Famer, but the ignorant little-**** suckers that masquerade as baseball experts, the BBWAA, won’t elect him on the first ballot.

 

[Dick Whitman]

He’s a Hall of Famer, but the ignorant little-**** suckers that masquerade as baseball experts, the BBWAA, won’t elect him on the first ballot.

Yes, they will. 95 percent or more.

 

[heyabbott]

Not Harold Baines.

Todd Helton = Tony Perez?
Bobby Abreu = Tony Perez?

 

[Dick Whitman]

Todd Helton = Tony Perez?
Bobby Abreu = Tony Perez?

Yeah. But Tony Perez is Lou Gehrig compared to Jack Morris.

 

[heyabbott]

Yeah. But Tony Perez is Lou Gehrig compared to Jack Morris.

Tw, Joe Morgan is over rated, he’s all right. But 40 years after his prime he was just very good. Without extending his career over 4 mediocre, at best, seasons, his numbers would be borderline HOF

 

[CD Boogie]

Morris is in because of one game basically. Chuck didn’t have that one game. Terrific pitcher for a long time though.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Morris is in because of one game basically. Chuck didn’t have that one game. Terrific pitcher for a long time though.

If there’s a place for Morris on that ground, there should be a place for Roger Maris.

 

[CD Boogie]

If there’s a place for Morris on that ground, there should be a place for Roger Maris.

I think Hack Wilson is a better comparison to Maris.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Wife belongs in HOF of crazy.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

He’s a Hall of Famer, but the ignorant little-**** suckers that masquerade as baseball experts, the BBWAA, won’t elect him on the first ballot.

This is nuts. Barring getting busted for steroids or something similarly scandalous, he will get more than the 95% **** predicted.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Finley's not a HOFer, which I suspect **** knows, but there's a bunch of guys from his era who put up numbers almost no one will ever put up again. Mark Langston, Frank Tanana, Fernando Valenzuela, Frank Viola, Dwight Gooden, etc. Twenty years from now, guys are gonna be getting into the HOF w/o approaching the wins or innings pitched of these guys.