Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Errors and omissions in the first two Hall of fame blogs.

I seemed to have overlooked a couple of Hall of Famers that should have already been reviewed by my two released blogs.

Dennis Eckersley-no- Essentially Eck had 7 good years in his career. Five of which were as a closer, 2 of which were pretty legendary. However, he was a very mediocre starter at best, and I really give him very little Hall of Fame credit for his time as a starter. Also the last five years of his career as a closer he had a cumulative era over 4.00 and was really bad in some of those years. He put up some good save numbers but during some of those years where he was putting up some decent save totals, he actually just wasn't a very good pitcher. He had 36 saves in 1993, but he put up an ERA of 4.16, and 1995 he was even worse, tallying 29 saves but with a 4.83. Sure he was older when he put up these numbers, but you don't get stats taken off your record just because you are getting older. On the whole his career ERA was 3.50, which isn't as good as the other relievers which I have decided not to include. Career wise Eck was the worst of them.

Joe Gordon-yes- He had a very short career, but he was nearly an All-Star every year of it. He may not have quanitity but the years that he spent in the league were quality, and quality is always better than quantity as long as you played the required amount of years. His career OPS of .822 is very good for his position, and I might be a little biased because I like his story. He was to Larry Doby as Pee Wee Reese was to Jackie Robinson.

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