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Originally Posted by celoknob
If you had ask someone in 1980 to name some very likely future HOF players, I think Garvey would have been on most people's list when OBP and WAR were not around. Another is Dave Parker. I think the chances of either is slight now. Parker also didn't walk much for a power guy and was plagued by injuries in his prime years and had other issues. Garvey is killed by low OBP and decrease in power in his 30s.
Alternatively, hardly anyone would have mentioned Dwight Evans in 1980 but to me he is a borderline HOFer. His late career surge and high OBP put him in that position.
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Evans was also an amazing defensive right fielder while Garvey was pretty much average at a non-premium defensive position. And Parker got a lot of press for his amazing arm (no better than that of Evans by the way) but Parker was a pretty bad defensive right fielder. His routes to balls were horrid and unlike Evans his howitzer for an arm wasn't always that accurate.
Tom C