Posted by tecwrg on 11/24/2015 7:14:00 AM (view original):
Posted by bad_luck on 11/23/2015 7:00:00 PM (view original):
The list of position players with 70+ WAR who are eligible but not in the Hall of Fame is very, very short:
Bagwell
Palmeiro
Grich
Trammell
Walker
Bonds
Whitaker
Dahlen
Yeah, like this. What was the point of this post if not to imply that there is (or should be) a correlation of high career WAR totals and the HOF?
Unless he's campaigning to put "Bad Bill" Dahlen in the Hall.
Are you stupid?
There absolutely is a correlation (more than a correlation, really) between high career WAR and the HOF.
But, that wasn't really the point of the post. The point was, maybe Larry Walker belongs. People discount what he did because of Coors field, but two stats that adjust for ballpark--WAR and OPS+--are HOF level.