Nobody has said he wasn't worthy of the HOF, but his fame has been impacted by the team he was on.
His 6th on the hit list was due to his amount of AB he got. He is 7th on the AB career list. His WAR still falls short of being the best SS of all time. Yet his card prices are higher than any other player of the 90s/2000s. 29 players were on 5 WS teams only 5 (Mariano and Jeter will make it 7) are HOF members so that is far from a metric used to determine greatness of a player.
The numbers that speak for themselves are his WAR and JAWS.
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