http://www.everyjoe.com/knucklecurve/poll-who-is-most-likely-to-reach-the-hall-of-fame/ Major League Baseball News from Spring Training to the World Series Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:49:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.everyjoe.com/knucklecurve/poll-who-is-most-likely-to-reach-the-hall-of-fame/comment-page-1/#comment-296 Knuckle Curve » Ranking the Greatest Players Ever Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:39:21 +0000 http://www.knucklecurve.com/poll-who-is-most-likely-to-reach-the-hall-of-fame/#comment-296 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

]]> http://www.everyjoe.com/knucklecurve/poll-who-is-most-likely-to-reach-the-hall-of-fame/comment-page-1/#comment-297 Knuckle Curve » Sierra, Sosa, Seriously? Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:43:18 +0000 http://www.knucklecurve.com/poll-who-is-most-likely-to-reach-the-hall-of-fame/#comment-297 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

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