Poll: Who Is Most Likely to Reach the Hall of Fame?
January 13, 2007 by Geoff Young
Filed under News
Here is the latest poll from the archives to revisit. This was inspired mostly by Jeff Bagwell’s retirement in December and also somewhat by the trade of Gary Sheffield to Detroit a month earlier.
Think on it over coffee or other beverage of choice and feel free to add your voice if so inclined.
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Check out what others are saying about this post...[...] Fast forwarding again to present day, we see that Sosa’s top 10 most similar players list now includes seven current Hall of Famers, one future Hall of Famer (Ken Griffey Jr.), and two guys who are on the bubble but who probably won’t make it (Fred McGriff, Gary Sheffield). Regardless of the methods Sosa may have employed to achieve those results, he clearly is hanging with a different crowd now than he was 15 years ago. [...]
[...] I did not realize that Gary Sheffield’s historical numbers were that good in context. According to this method, which accounts for a player’s value on offense and defense, Sheffield is one of the 30 best players ever to play the game. He’s right there with Reggie Jackson, Carl Yastrzemski, Al Kaline, and Willie McCovey. Kind of interesting in light of our recent poll. [...]