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Originally Posted by the 'stache
When I compared the careers of Jim Rice, and Dwight Evans, let's just say my eyebrow raised.
When we consider that these two players had equal power for their career, yet Evans got on base more, and was a vastly better fielder, it seems to me as if the Hall elected the wrong Red Sox outfielder. It took Rice fifteen years to get in. Evans, however, appeared on only three ballots. He fell off the ballot after getting only 3.6% of the vote in 1999.
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This was a terrific analysis. Evans is one of a growing number of guys who had excellent careers and merit Hall talk but vanish from the ballot before dialogue can even happen.. Lofton and Edmonds come to mind as two recent examples.